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Peaky Blinders and Gangs of London star Joe Cole has been cast as lead in real-time BBC thriller series Nightsleeper. He’ll play opposite Alexandra Roach (The Light in the Hall) in the drama, which is from Nick Leather (The Control Room, Mother’s Day). Filming is underway in Glasgow…

Bel Powley (The Morning Show) has been tapped as the lead and Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) as the co-leads in Disney+’s A Small Light, a National Geographic limited series that tells the remarkable story of a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis…

Heroism, obsession, sheet ice and huskies. It's a winning combination, the stuff of stories that show men – because these were stories about men – reaching beyond themselves to survive the elements. Sometimes, even in stories, they didn't survive because they sacrificed themselves for their comrades, finding their…

EXCLUSIVE: Shooting upcoming Netflix pic Against The Ice was no straightforward task, as its stars and director reveal to Deadline in a first interview as a trio. The movie, which premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinde…

EXCLUSIVE: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) are leading the cast of Against The Ice, a survival movie being produced by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest) for Netflix. The pic is a passion project for Emmy nominee Coster-Waldau, who has penned the screenplay with co-writer Joe Derrick…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one: ITV is turning Len Deighton’s spy novel The Ipcress File, which inspired the 1965 Michael Caine film of the same name, into a television series — and the UK broadcaster has assembled a stellar on- and off-screen team to make the drama a reality. The adaptation will be penned by…

Paapa Essiedu, one of the breakout stars of BBC/HBO’s I May Destroy You, and Gangs Of London actor Joe Cole have joined the cast of ITV’s Black Lives Matter-inspired drama shorts series Unsaid Stories…. Deadline last week revealed the four-part anthology series, which will be made by Greenacre Films, the producer…

EXCLUSIVE: From writers rooms to board meetings and Friday night cocktail hours, the world of virtual meetings has boomed during the coronavirus lockdown. Here's one that might be an industry first – last night the cast and crew of Sky's upcoming series Gangs Of London got together to toast the show ahead of TX on…

Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole and Humans' Sope Dirisu are to star in Sky and Cinemax drama Gangs of London. The pair will lead the line in the Pulse Films-produced drama, which was first revealed by Deadline in November 2017, and was created by Gareth Evans. The drama, which will launch in 2019, is set in contemporary…

The first trailer for Thailand prison drama A Prayer Before Dawn has been released, a warm-up to the film’s planned 2018 release. In a splashy Berlin sale this year, A24 closed a deal for North American rights to the pic, a Jean-Stephane Sauvaire-directed action film that provides a breakout opportunity for Peaky Blind…

EXCLUSIVE: In a splashy Berlin sale, A24 has closed a deal for North American rights to A Prayer Before Dawn, the Jean-Stephane Sauvaire-directed action film that provides a breakout opportunity for Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole. The film is based on the true-life experience of Billy Moore, who survived his Thai prison…

EXCLUSIVE: Shortly after Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8 and Bona Film Group partnered with Tom Rothman’s Tristar and Film4 on the Ang Lee-directed Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the filmmaker has boiled down to a shortlist his options for actors to play the title role. Lee wants a discovery and will surround him with a …