| DES (SUNDANCE NOW)
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BROADCAST
HISTORY:
10/15/20
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10/29/20
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STATUS:
canceled/ended (2020-2021 season) |
TIME SLOT:
completed airing its current season |
SEASON(S):
1 (3 episodes, 0 of which have yet to air) |
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ADDITIONAL NOTES:
limited series |
DESCRIPTION:
(from Sundance Now's web site, August 2020) Starring David Tennant, Des is a true-crime drama focusing on one of the most infamous serial killers in UK history – Dennis Nilsen. Known as the ‘kindly killer’, Nilsen was a local civil servant who spent five years murdering boys and young men he met on the streets of Soho from 1978 to 1983. He would meet and befriend these men before offering them food or lodgings for the evening back at his North London flat. His victims were often homeless or living off grid, having slipped through the cracks of 1980s society and were therefore welcoming of this stranger’s apparent generosity. When he was finally caught on 9 February 1983, Nilsen had murdered a total of fifteen men over a period of five years, making him Britain’s most prolific serial killer of the time. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Barry Ward as Steve McCusker
· Ben Bailey Smith as Brian Lodge
· Chanel Cresswell as Lesley Mead
· Daniel Mays as Peter Jay
· David Tennant as Dennis Nilsen
· Jamie Parker as Allan Green
· Jason Watkins as Brian Masters
· Ken Bones as David Croom-Johnson
· Laurie Kynaston as Carl Stottor
· Pip Torrens as Ivan Lawrence
· Ron Cook as Geoff Chambers
· Ross Anderson as Douglas Stewart
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Brian Masters as BOOK
· Kelly Jones as WRTR
· Lewis Arnold as DIR
· Luke Neal as WRTR
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· ITV Studios
· New Pictures
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