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Julie Walters (National Treasure) and Clarke Peters (The Wire) are fronting a dark, irreverent drama based around a death pact for broadcaster Channel 4. They will star in Clerkenwell Films’ six-part Truelove, which is written by from Iain Weatherby (Humans) and co-created with Charlie Covell. She wrote the tonally…

EXCLUSIVE: Clarke Peters, who recently starred in Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods, is joining Showtime drama The Man Who Fell To Earth. Peters, who is best known for starring as Lester Freamon in The Wire, joins the cast as a series regular alongside stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris and Jimmi Simpson. The show, which…

For Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event Netflix brought Da 5 Bloods director Spike Lee and the cast that joined him in Vietnam and Thailand. The group had lost none of the rapport that distinguishes Da 5 Boods, about a group of vets returning for the first time since the Vietnam War. They are there…

Actors Ruth Wilson and Clarke Peters took the dais at CCXP to talk about HBO fantasy drama  His Dark Materials, based on the best-selling novels by Philip Pullman. The two went into detail about their characters and how it has been like working on such an ambitious story about Dafne Keen’s Lyra, who, after searching…

Spike Lee’s anticipated Netflix film Da 5 Bloods has rounded out cast, we can reveal. Clarke Peters (The Wire), Isiah Whitlock Jr. (BlacKkKlansman), stage star and singer Norm Lewis (Sex And The City 2), Mélanie Thierry (The Zero Theorem) and Vikings and BlacKkKlansman actor Jasper Pääkkönen are joining previously…

EXCLUSIVE: The Crown‘s Anna Chancellor and The Wire‘s Clarke Peters have joined the cast of Come Away, the fantasy drama starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo that is serving as the live-action debut of Brave director Brenda Chapman. The pic has just started filming in the UK for seven weeks, followed by three…

David Simon and his producing partner Nina K. Noble are known for groundbreaking dramas that shed light on institutional dysfunction and pressing social issues in very different areas of the country. That being said, he has some opinions about the Donald Trump administration. So when he tweeted out that a POTUS…

X-Men and Atomic Blonde star James McAvoy and The Wire's Clarke Peters have signed up to star in the BBC's adaptation of Philip Pullman's fantasy epic His Dark Materials. The pair will start work on the eight-part series, which is produced by Bad Wolf, later this month. McAvoy plays Lord Asriel, the ruthless…

Former The Wire star Clarke Peters is set for a series regular role in OWN's upcoming hourlong dramedy Love Is___, from Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil. Created and executive produced by the Akils, Love Is ___, is described as a humorous drama about a modern-day power couple balancing successful careers and a beautiful…

Alysia Reiner (Orange Is The New Black) David Eigenberg (Sex In The City), Clarke Peters (Treme)  Jeff Hephner (Chicago Fire), Rex Linn (CSI: Miami) and Alex Weisman (Chicago Med) are the latest cast additions to the CorradoMooncoin political thriller The Pages. They join the previously cast Deanna Dunagan, Tika Sumpte…

EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Hofheimer, Aleksa Palladino, Gotham‘s Robin Lord Taylor and Clarke Peters have been tapped to star in Periscope Entertainment’s sci-fi thriller The Mandela Effect from director David Guy Levy. Production is underway in Los Angeles from a script by Steffen Schlachtenhaufen and Levy. The Mandela Effect…

The Wire and Treme alum Clarke Peters has been cast in Hulu's drama series Chance, toplined by Hugh Laurie and Gretchen Mol. The project is from author Kem Nunn, Room director Lenny Abrahamson, showrunner Alexandra Cunningham, producer Michael London and Fox 21 TV Studios. Peters is set to recur in Season 1, with a…