BBC One Sets Premiere Date For ‘A Very English Scandal’
BBC One's three-part Jeremy Thorpe drama A Very English Scandal will premiere on Sunday May 20th at 9pm, it has been announced.
BBC One's three-part Jeremy Thorpe drama A Very English Scandal will premiere on Sunday May 20th at 9pm, it has been announced.
London Spy and James Bond star Ben Whishaw has been set as the co-lead opposite Hugh Grant in BBC One's three-part Jeremy Thorpe drama A Very English Scandal. He will play Norman Scott. Whishaw is represented by Hamilton Hodell and CAA.
The story of the downfall of Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe is coming to the BBC. The corporation's flagship channel BBC One has given the green-light to A Very English Scandal, a three-part drama based on the book of the same name by John Preston which tells the true story of the Thorpe Affair. In his first role in a British television production in more than two decades, Hugh Grant (Four Weddings And A Funeral, About A Boy) has signed on to play the late Liberal leader.
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