Well-known Paisley sons Steven Moffat and David Tenant have crew up on a brand new TV present that hits the display screen tonight.
Inside Man, a brand new mini-series written and created by Moffat will air on BBC One tonight at 9pm adopted by the second episode on the identical time on Tuesday, September 27.
The ex-Physician Who and Sherlock author’s new mission will see David Tenant play an area vicar, one thing the ex-Paisley Grammar schoolboy needs to be conversant in as his personal father Sandy McDonald, who was a Church of Scotland minister and died aged 78 in March 2016.
Mr McDonald was accountable for St Mark’s Oldhall Church, in Paisley’s Glasgow Highway. And he was a minor TV star himself, and was properly often called one of many presenters of STV’s non secular programme Late Name within the Seventies.
He additionally spent a time period as Moderator of the Basic Meeting of the Church of Scotland.
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Particulars in regards to the present are being stored below wraps, however the restricted info obtainable does present that Hollywood star Stanley Tucci will play a prisoner on demise row within the US, 1000's of miles away from the place the motion is going down in England.
Up and coming English actor Lydia West, who appeared in Russell T Davies' hit sequence It’s a Sin, performs a journalist, whereas skilled English actor Dolly Wells performs a maths trainer.
The official synopsis for the four-part sequence says: "Within the US, a prisoner on demise row (Stanley Tucci) is searching for atonement as he faces execution. On a prepare in England, a journalist (Lydia West) is searching for a narrative.
"In a quiet little village, a vicar (David Tennant) is choosing up his son’s maths tutor (Dolly Wells) from the station. All 4 are about to be entangled in a dilemma that would lead one in all them to homicide..."
Promotional images of the mini-series present the blood-spattered faces of all 4 aforementioned characters so no matter occurs in Inside Man, we will assume it’s going to be gory.
A line from Stanley Tucci’s character within the trailer is “everyone seems to be a assassin, you simply want to fulfill the proper particular person”.
The ultimate two episodes of Inside Man will air on October 3 and 4 respectively. Every episode will even be obtainable on BBC iPlayer after it airs.
The mini-series is a co-production between BBC Studios and Netflix, and will probably be obtainable to stream on Netflix at an undisclosed date sooner or later.
The complete solid checklist is as follows: David Tennant as Harry Watling; Stanley Tucci as Jefferson Grieff; Dolly Wells as Janice Fife; Lydia West as Beth Davenport; Lyndsey Marshal as Mary Watling; Louis Oliver as Ben Watling; Atkins Estimond as Dillon Kempton; Mark Quartley as Edgar Hopperwood; and Dylan Baker as Casey.
Paul McGuigan directs, with Alex Mercer as producer. Sue Vertue serves as an government producer on the present.
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