Delighted to announce Tom Riley (last seen in “Da Vinci’s Demons”) has been signed to play D.I. Will Wagstaffe in “Dark Heart”, Chris’s adaptation of Adam Creed’s novel ‘Suffer the Children’. The rest of the cast have now been finalised and shooting on the series begins on June 22nd 2016.
Delighted to announce Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Baskar will be joined by Rosie Cavaliero, Mark Bonnar and Lorraine Ashbourne in the second season of Unforgotten, which starts shooting on June 22nd 2016. Further cast members to be announced are:
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Congratulations to Tom Courtenay on winning the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Unforgotten”, triumphing in a category that included Ian McKellen (for The Dresser), Anton Lesser (for Wolf Hall) and Cyril Nri (for Cucumber).
This year’s ceremony was held at Festival Hall on London’s Southbank and hosted by Graham Norton. Among the star-studded audience were Maisie Williams, Tom Hiddleston, Martin Freeman, Aidan Turner and the stars of Wolf Hall who led the 2016 nominations with four nods, followed by This is England ’90.
Filming on ‘Entre Deux Mères’, the French remake of ‘Torn’ starts began filming on April 4th. Filming will take place in Bordeaux and Paris.’
The cast includes Odile Vuillemin, Marilyn Lima, François Vincentelli and Armelle Deutsch
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Congratulations to Sir Tom Courtenay, for his Bafta nomination as best supporting actor in ‘Unforgotten’.
Congratulations to Sir Tom Courtenay, on his Royal Television Society nomination as best actor for his performance as Eric Slater in ‘Unforgotten’. The award ceremony will take place on March 22nd at the Grosvenor Park hotel .
Delighted to announce alongside filming season II of Unforgotten, Chris will be making two new projects later this year. ‘Innocent’ a four part thriller he co-created with Matt Arlidge, will shoot late summer, for broadcast early 2017. It will be produced by his company TXTV for ITV1, and will be written by Chris and Matt, and executive produced by Matt Arlidge, Chris Lang and Jeremy Gwilt. Cast to be announced.
Chris’s adaptation of Adam Creed’s first Wagstaffe novel Suffer The Children, “Dark Heart”, has also been green lit for ITV Encore, to be produced by ITV studios. Shooting starts in summer. Cast to be announced.
Congratulations to Nicola Walker, who has been nominated for best actress by the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, for her role in Unforgotten.
The Awards will be announced at a lunch at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Friday March 11th 2016, which will be attended by the winners, BPG members and leading broadcasting executives.
The French channel TF1 has acquired the rights to remake the RTS nominated drama ‘Torn’ to remake in French from TXTV. The adaptation, titled ‘Entre Deux Meres’ goes in to pre-production in Paris in February for broadcast later in 2016 on TF1.
The original, written by Chris Lang, was first broadcast in 2007 and was nominated for an RTS Television Award in 2008 as Best Drama Serial.
After the thrilling finale of ‘Unforgotten‘, ITV have commissioned a second series of the Chris Lang’s crime drama with Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar returning in the lead roles.
ITV’s drama boss Steve November announced “We are pleased with the audience response to Unforgotten and I am delighted to announce that it will be returning for a second series with a brand new story from the writer Chris Lang and Mainstreet Pictures, a winning formula who have kept ITV drama viewers gripped throughout the first series.”
Interviewed in Radio Times, Chris Lang said: “I absolutely adored working with Nicola and Sanjeev, who would obviously be the returning characters. All of the other characters would be new, it would be a new story, a new deeply historical case and I’d just love to spend more time with those people and start to weave another story together. It’s endless possibilities for not just a second but a third too — who knows how many series.”
“Tu es mon fils” (adapted by Didier Le Pêcheur from Chris Lang’s series “A Mother’s Son“) has won the Best Single TV Movie (Meilleur Film Unitaire Francophone) at the 2015 Festival POLAR de Cognac.
The film aired on February 23rd and took a 23% share of viewing figures for TF1 and received rave reviews from the French press.
For more information (in French), visit the site for Tu es mon fils
Episode 1 of Unforgotten, written and created by Chris Lang , is broadcast on ITV on Thursday October 8. The series focuses on a cold case from years ago, when the bones of a young man are found beneath the footings of a demolished house. An investigation begins that will unravel the lives of four people who have been waiting for this moment for nearly forty years, as they discover that the past can’t, and won’t, stay buried for ever.
