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LOCKERBIE (PEACOCK)
Premieres in TBA 2024 or 2025 (Exact Date TBA)
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BROADCAST
HISTORY:
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STATUS:
new in 2024/2025 (date TBA) |
TIME SLOT:
not on the schedule |
CURRENT SEASON:
1 (5 episodes) |
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
limited series |
DESCRIPTION:
(from Peacock's press release, February 2022) Sky and Peacock today announce LOCKERBIE, a new mini-series that will be based on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and the search for justice by Dr Jim Swire and his wife Jane who lost their beloved daughter, Flora, in the air disaster in 1988. The five-part series will be written by Academy Award nominees Jim Sheridan (In The Name of The Father, My Left Foot) and Kirsten Sheridan (In America, Dollhouse). All 259 passengers and crew were killed when the bomb exploded over Lockerbie 38 minutes after take-off, with a further 11 residents losing their life as the plane came down over the quiet, Scottish town. Thirteen years later, in 2001, Libyan national Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime and later released on compassionate grounds in 2009. Shortly after the Lockerbie bombing, one of the worst terrorist attacks in history, some families of the victims joined together to launch a campaign for truth and justice. Among them was Dr Jim Swire whose campaign has taken him to the sand dunes of Libya to meet face-to-face with Colonel Gaddafi, to 10 Downing Street to meet with successive Prime Ministers and to the corridors of power in the US where he worked with the American victims' groups to mount pressure on Washington for tighter airport security, well before 9/11. The moving series will explore events from 1988 to the present day, while providing an intimate account of a man, a husband, and a father who pushes his marriage, his health, and his sanity to the edge. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Andy Nyman as Edwin Bollier
· Ardalan Esmaili as Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
· Catherine McCormack as Jane Swire
· Colin Firth as Jim Swire
· Mark Bonnar as Roderick McGill
· Sam Troughton as Murray Guthrie
· Selwa Jghalef as Aisha
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Gareth Neame as EP
· Jim Sheridan as CRTR/WRTR
· Kirsten Sheridan as CRTR/WRTR
· Naomi Sheridan as WRTR
· Nigel Marchant as EP
· Oskar Slingerland as EP
· Samantha Hoyle as EP
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Carnival Films
· Sky Studios
· Universal Content Productions
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