Zoë Wanamaker, Sir Michael Palin, Vicki Pepperdine & More Join BBC One’s ‘Worzel Gummidge’
BBC One has set the cast for Worzel Gummidge. Zoë Wanamaker (Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone), Sir Michael Palin (Monty Python), Vicki Pepperdine (The Windsors), Steve Pemberton (Benidorm), Rosie Cavaliero (Gentleman Jack), India Brown (Hetty Feather) and newcomer Thierry Wickens are set to star opposite Mackenzie Crook (The Pirates Of The Caribbean) in the two-part adaptation of the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. 
WWII drama World On Fire will premiere on BBC One on Sunday September 29th at 9pm, it has been announced. 
Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man, The Escape) has been set as the lead in Black Narcissus, BBC One's three-part adaptation of Rumer Godden’s novel of the same name. Rounding out the cast is Alessandro Nivola, Aisling Franciosi, Dame Diana Rigg, Jim Broadbent, Gina McKee, Rosie Cavaliero, Patsy Ferran, Karen Bryson, Dipika Kunwar. 
BBC One has released the trailer for their Tana French adaptation Dublin Murders, which is set to premiere later this year. 
BBC One has released five first look images from Small Axe, their upcoming six episode anthology series from Oscar winner Steve McQueen. 
Newcomer Yasmin Kaur Barn has joined the cast of BBC One's daytime drama series Shakespeare & Hathaway – Private Investigators as a series regular for its just ordered third season. She will play PC Viola Deacon, a 20-something friend of Sebastian with boundless, puppy-like enthusiasm. Back in 2016, Yasmin Kaur Barn was cast as one of the leads in Fox's pilot Recon, which ultimately did no go to series. She has also appeared in an episode of BBC Three's Man Like Mobeen.