A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
GUY PEARCE JOINS DAMIAN LEWIS IN BRITBOX SERIES
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Guy Pearce replaces Dominic West
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We announced the project about a year ago, but now
Guy Pearce is replacing
Dominic West next to
Damian Lewis in
A SPY AMONG FRIENDS mini series which will air on
BritBox and
Spectrum. Based on
Ben Macintyre's book, it follows the defection of British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby (
Guy Pearce), through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott (Lewis). The Fall 2022 show examines espionage through their friendship, the fallout of which affects East-West relations to this day. Philby was a British spy who defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, betraying secrets to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. He and Elliott entered the spy
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Damian Lewis takes the lead role in A Spy Among Friends
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game together, but as they rose through the MI6 ranks, Philby turned double agent.
Anna Maxwell Martin, Stephen Kunken and
Adrian Edmondson also star.
FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
TO BECOME SERIES AT NETFLIX
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Mike Flanagan will produce the series
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While you are currently watching his horror series
Midnight Mass over at
Netflix,
Mike Flanagan has closed a deal with the streamer to turn
Edgar Allan Poe's famous Gothic story
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER into a television series. Although the title is connected with one of his stories, the series will apparently cover multiple of his works. The story, published in 1893, features themes of madness, family, isolation and metaphysical identities. It follows a man who visits his friend, Roderick Usher, who lies ill in a gloomy estate. Spooky events inside and outside the house escalate into a terrifying conclusion to the physical and ancestral House of Usher. It is not known if the eight episode series will be period set or not.
