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Mara (Emily Rose) in "Spotlight." Photo copyright of Syfy.
This week on Haven, Dwight (Adam Copeland) and Duke (Eric Balfour) deal with a new danger that threatens to burn the town to the ground. Meanwhile, Nathan (Lucas Bryant) helps Mara (Emily Rose) hide from a mob of angry Haven citizens. Catch a glimpse of what is to come in the sneak peek below, and then tune in for Spotlight on Thursday, September 25th @ 8:00 p.m. EST/PST on Syfy.
Chiwetel Ejiofor in Half of a Yellow Sun. Photo copyright of STARZ.
STARZ, in an acquisition from Monterey Media, will exclusively debut the U.S. television premiere of the award-winning film, Half of a Yellow Sun, starring Academy Award® nominee and five-time Golden Globe® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, this fall on STARZ IN BLACK and its associated STARZ ON DEMAND and STARZ PLAY online services. Prior to its television debut on the premium network, the film has screened steadily within the festival circuit including the Toronto International Film Festival, AFI Fest, African Film Festival New York and more. Monterey Media recently debuted the film to theatrical audiences in the US with a New York premiere on Friday, May 16th, followed by release in select theaters nationwide including Los Angeles (May 23rd premiere date), Chicago and other major U.S. cities.
Even before its theatrical debut, the film garnered an array positive support, from artists such as Beyoncé, who has dedicated a portion of her official Beyoncé website to promote the film, as well as news coverage surrounding the controversy behind the Nigerian film council’s recent banning of the film to public audiences. Events involving the controversy have been chronicled in the press including an editorial in The New York Times and in an op-ed from the novel’s author in the New Yorker).
Based on the award-winning novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun is a romantic drama set in the backdrop of 1960s Nigeria during the country’s turbulent civil war. The film centers around the diverging destinies of two sisters, Olanna (played by Thandie Newton) and Kainene (played by Anika Noni Rose) who are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Upon returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education, the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her lover, the “revolutionary professor” Odenigbo (portrayed by Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his devoted houseboy Ugwu (played by John Boyega) in the dusty university town of Nsukka; Kainene turns out to be a fiercely successful businesswoman when she takes over the family interests, and surprises even herself when she falls in love with Richard (portrayed by Joseph Mawle), an English writer. Preoccupied by their romantic entanglements, and a betrayal between the sisters, the events of their life seem to loom larger than politics. However, they become caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war, in which the lgbo people fought an impassioned struggle to establish Biafra as an independent republic, ending in chilling violence which shocked the entire world. Half of a Yellow Sun takes the sisters and their lovers on a journey through the war which is powerful, intensely emotional and, as the response of readers around the world has shown, it is a story which can touch everyone’s heart.
Kevin Kasha, Head of Acquisitions for Starz, said, “STARZ is pleased to partner with Monterey Media to acquire the exclusive U.S. premium television rights to Half of a Yellow Sun, a film that is yet another example of Nigeria’s thriving film industry. We are honored to premiere and showcase a film across our family of STARZ channels and services that encourages reflection, sparks dialogue surrounding poignant historical moments, and at times may parallel histories with contemporary society. The movie captures compelling narratives about human relationships through the lens of war with incredible performances from a stellar cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose.”
Thandie Newton (For Colored Girls, The Pursuit of Happiness, Mission Impossible II) who plays Olanna and Anika Noni Rose (For Colored Girls, Dreamgirls, The Princess and the Frog) who portrays Kainene, star alongside Chiwetel EjioforasOdenigbo, a revolutionary professor. The international cast includes Joseph Mawle (Richard), John Boyega (Ugwu) and Onyeka Onwenu (Mama).
Released by Monterey Media, Half of a Yellow Sun is written and directed by Biyi Bandele, based on the novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; the executive producer is Yewande Sadiku and the producer is Andrea Calderwood. Filmed at Tinapa Studios an on location in Calabar, Nigeria and at Shepperton Studios in London; Co-produced by Shareman Media Limited, The British Film Limited and Yellow Sun Limited.
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(L-R) Mia Maestro as Nora Martinez; Corey Stoll as Epraim Goodweather; Kevin Durand as Vasily Fet in "Last Rites." Photo by Michael Gibson and copyright of FX.
This week on an all-new episode of The Strain, Dutch (Ruta Gedmintas) returns with a plan to broadcast Eph’s (Corey Stoll) warning about the vampiric plague. However, they face a new threat when Eichhorst (Richard Sammel) launches his own attack against the pawn shop. Meanwhile Palmer (Jonathan Hyde) receives a special visitor, and Gus (Miquel Gomez) gears up for the on-coming fight but discovers there’s another mysterious factor involved. Check out the sneak peek below for Last Rites and then tune in for the entire episode on Sunday, September 28th @ 10:00 p.m. ESt/PST on FX.
(L-R): Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson), Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) and The Doctor (Peter Capaldi). Photo copyright of the BBC.
This week on an all-new episode of Doctor Who, when terrifying events threaten Coal Hill school the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) decides to go undercover. The Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity – and worse, any second now, Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson) and the Doctor are going to meet. Written by Gareth Roberts (The Sarah Jane Adventures) and Steven Moffat (Sherlock) and directed by Paul Murphy (Casualty), The Caretaker premieres Saturday, September 27 at 9:00pm EST on BBC America. Check out the clip below!
Executive producer, Steven Moffat told the Radio Times in August, “Clara (Jenna Coleman) has it all under control: her life at school, her life in space; her new boyfriend and her mad old Time Lord. Everything is humming along just fine, so long as everybody never actually meets. Then, one morning, just before assembly, Coal Hill welcomes a new relief caretaker with a Scottish accent. With Clara’s world about to explode around her, terrifying events near the school make it clear that the rest of the world is about to do the same.”
Jenna Coleman and Peter Capaldi discuss their acting rituals in an exclusive video interview with BBC AMERICA. For more Doctor Who news and extras, visit http://www.bbcamerica.com/doctor-who/
Giant lava breathing tarantulas – Lavalantulas – erupt out of ancient volcanos in the Santa Monica Mountains, raining death and destruction upon Los Angeles, in the new Syfy Original Movie Lavalantula, premiering in Summer 2015.
With the City of Angels on the verge of incineration, only a washed up ‘90s action hero actor, played by Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy, Diner) – joined by Police Academy alumni Leslie Easterbrook (Police Academy) and Michael Winslow (Police Academy: The Series) -- stand in the way of this monstrous swarm of bloodthirsty creatures who burn their victims alive.
Currently in production in Los Angeles, Lavalantula also co-stars Nia Peeples (The Young and the Restless) and Ralph Garman (KROQ/LA DJ). Lavalantula will be directed by Mike Mendez, who won a Saturn Award for helming Big Ass Spiders.
(L-R): Strike Back's Robson Green, Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton. Photo copyright of Cinemax/Sky 1.
A star-studded cast heads season four of CINEMAX’s hit action drama series Strike Back, which recently resumed production in Europe. Stars Sullivan Stapleton (300: The Rise of an Empire, Gangster Squad) and Philip Winchester (Crusoe, Camelot, the upcoming Undrafted) return as an unlikely pair of counterterrorism operatives, Scott and Stonebridge, and are joined by Robson Green (Wire in the Blood, Grantchester), Michelle Lukes (Doctors) and Milauna Jackson (Blood Done Sign My Name, the upcoming Bolden!) as their fellow Section 20 members.
New cast members include award winner Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II), Dustin Clare (the Spartacus series), Will Yun Lee (The Wolverine, HBO’s True Blood), James Wilby (Gosford Park), Adrian Paul (the Highlander series), Joseph Gatt (HBO’s Game of Thrones; Teen Wolf; CINEMAX’s Banshee), Christian Antidormi (Spartacus: War of the Damned) and British mixed martial arts champion and UFC fighter Michael Bisping.
The series recently resumed shooting in Europe and will continue through the fall, with additional production in Thailand. The production had been on hiatus to allow Stapleton to recuperate from a non-set injury sustained earlier this year. Strike Back’s fourth and final season of ten episodes will air on CINEMAX and UK partner Sky 1 in 2015.
Season four is directed by Michael J. Bassett (who also serves as co-executive producer), Julian Holmes and Brendan Maher, and written by Bassett, Jack Lothian, James Dormer, Richard Zajdlic, Ed Whitmore and Tim Vaughan.
Other new cast members include Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton in HBO’s Game of Thrones), Max Beesley (Suits), Tim McInnerny (Notting Hill), Leo Gregory (Tristan and Isolde), Mark Griffin (Doctor Who), Wolf Kahler (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Andrew Pleavin (300: Rise of an Empire), Eliza Hope Bennett (Nanny McPhee) and Masa Yamaguchi (The Wolverine).
TV Guide said that Strike Back “blazed a new trail in hardcore pulp fiction” and Craveonline.com hailed it as “still the gold standard for TV action.” Redeyechicago.com said, “Every season Strike Back raises the stakes,” and New York’s Daily News observed that season three returned “with a bigger bang than ever.” The Huffington Post called it “well made and damn fun.”
Strike Back was nominated for American Society of Cinematographers Award and was awarded Best Big Bang Stunts & Effects by the Royal Television Society. IGN nominated the series Best TV Action Series for two years in a row. Strike Back is a CINEMAX Presentation in association with British Sky Broadcasting Limited; a Left Bank Pictures Production; executive producers, Andy Harries for Left Bank and Cameron Roach for Sky; series producers, Michael Casey and Sharon Hughff; co-executive producers, Michael J. Bassett and James Dormer.
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Detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir) in "Quetzalcoatl." Photo copyright of FX.
This week on The Bridge, Marco (Demian Bichir) becomes Fausto’s (Ramon Franco) ticket to freedom. Meanwhile, Sonya (Diane Kruger) attempts to interpret Eleanor’s (Franka Potente) ledger, and Frye (Matthew Lillard) and Adriana (Emily Rios) aid the EPPD investigation. Check out the clip below from Quetzalcoatl and then tune in for the episode on Wednesday, September 24th @ 10:00 p.m. EST/PST on FX.
Bruno Heller.
London-born producer/writer Bruno Heller is the son of Lukas Heller, a successful German screenwriter and winner of an Edger Award winner for Best Motion Picture for 1964's Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte, while his mother Caroline, an English Quaker, played a key role in the Labour Party’s “Save London Transport Campaign.” A graduate of the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, Bruno worked for a number of years as a union soundman on feature film sets. During that time, he met noted Portuguese director Eduardo Guedes, and the two eventually teamed up on what became Heller’s first screenwriting credit, the 1994 film Pax starring Amanda Plummer.
Heller eventually left the UK for New York, where he met his wife, Miranda. In 1997, he moved to Los Angeles and began working on a variety of TV projects including Touching Evil and The Huntress. Heller went on to co-create as well as executive produce and write for the hugely successful HBO/BBC series Rome, followed by the long-running police procedural drama The Mentalist, which he created. Currently, Heller is serving as an executive producer/writer on another series he created, Gotham (premiering Monday, September 22nd @ 8:00 p.m. EST on FOX TV). This Batman prequel series introduces viewers to the origin stories of many familiar heroes, villains and villainesses occupying the DC Comics world, including Detective James Gordon and a young Bruce Wayne.
Heller graciously spent some time last week speaking on the phone with journalists about his involvement in Gotham and what audiences can look forward to seeing. The following is an edited version of that Q&A. Enjoy!
It looks like there was a very conscious effort to put so many characters in the pilot, and I think, in general, people have been pretty positive about that. I was just wondering what the thought process was on that and, in future episodes, will it be more of a “villain of the week” or what’s the plan for the future as well?
Bruno Heller: You make a good point. Obviously, the demands of opening big with the show means that we wanted to frontload it with lots of characters just to indicate where we’re headed. As the show rolls on, it won’t be villain of the week simply because these are such great villains and their storylines are so big and epic that it would be short-changing everyone if we did things in that sort of production line way. So there are a lot of big characters in that first episode, but as it rolls on, other iconic characters will be introduced, but in a much more measured way, if you like.
How would you describe the mood on the set or in the writers’ room right now in anticipation of the Gotham premiere?
BH: One of the key tasks of my job is not to let all of that off-set hoopla affect what is going on the set. The set is a world unto itself and we’re just trying to make the best show we can. The anticipation for the show and the brilliant job of marketing that FOX has done is really kind of another world. Inside the world we live in, certainly it’s hard, but while not ignoring all the anticipation, we try to let it go by without getting too excited.
The show is called Gotham; I’m wondering how much the city itself really shapes the story you’re telling.
BH: Very much so. It’s an urban story about city life, and I often think that it’s kind of a dream world that everybody shares. Everyone has a vision of Gotham in their mind, so you really have to create a three-dimensional world that is both believable but a notch above reality and has that fantastic element. The director [of the Gotham pilot, and fellow series executive producer], Dan Cannon, and I had kind of seminal moments in New York in the 70s when it was a really gnarly and dark, but very sexy, attractive and charismatic place. So the seed of Gotham City is that old New York.
Dan and his crew did such an amazing job creating a believable but fantastic world. It’s real as well as slightly surreal, and that means you have a broad and powerful canvas to work off of. So Gotham is a central character. It’s not an accident we call the show Gotham.
As a prequel series and an origin story, what did you look at and draw inspiration from, especially if people are used to seeing Bruce Wayne as the Dark Knight as opposed to his younger self, and where a lot of the focus is going to be on Jim Gordon and Gotham?
BH: To me, the immediate attraction of this story was precisely the chance to tell origin stories. Those are always the aspects of the superhero legends that I enjoy most. It ties into a kind of childlike curiosity of how did things get the way they are? It goes back to Rudyard Kipling’s How Did the Leopard Get its Spots? and Just So Stories.
This is a world that everyone knows. Everyone knows who Batman is, who the Riddler is, and who the Joker is, so telling their fully-fledged, adult stories is not so much been-there-done-that, but it’s tough to find a fresh way in. With Gotham, you get to learn how things got to be the way they are, and that, to me, is one of the great gifts of good narrative. It’s like seeing pictures of your parents before you were born. There’s something intrinsically fascinating about that period before the period we know, and that’s really the feeling we were going for with this show.
Shows like Arrow and Smallville have proven that mainstream superhero shows can be successful ventures. How have these shows had an impact on the production and development of Gotham? Would a show like Gotham even be possible, say, 10 or 15 years ago?
BH: That’s a good, deep question. Yes, I would say certainly both of the shows you mentioned are Warner Bros. shows, and the DC Universe is now very much a part of Warner Bros. culture. I’d been talking with DC for many years before we got to this point and landed on Gotham. I think you’re probably right, that it wouldn’t have been possible, and I think that’s a combination of the brilliance of what the Nolans did to revivify the Batman franchise and also the shows you mentioned. People could see that there’s both an audience and a way of convincingly doing that larger-than-life world on the small screen.
I would say that the difference, to a degree, between those shows and this show is that those were/are cable shows. This is network, and there are slightly different demands. The analogy would be those are arena shows whereas this has to be a stadium show and has to appeal to an even larger audience. So it has to appeal to both people who love Batman, love Gotham and love that world and then people who have no particular love for the world. With the latter, you just have to grab them on the strength of the story and the characters.
Warner Bros. and Netflix recently agreed to the exclusive streaming rights to Gotham. Is this direct to subscription television ineffable and how do you see this sort of thing effecting big, stadium projects like Gotham in the future?
BH; Well, I’m the last person to ask about business because what I can’t control, I don’t worry about or get too deep into. Certainly, though, all these new outlets and the various deals that can be made to back a project can only help in terms of creating larger and more ambitious TV events. That’s the way it’s going; in order to have to break through, you have to invest a lot more money as well as a lot more of your resources to make things pop out of the vast landscape that now exists for TV. The Netflix deal is part of that movement. It allows the creative people to take more chances and to use more “color” and a broader canvas so to speak, just to start with.
You’re doing some very interesting spins on some of the characters we know, especially the Penguin, who really stood out as unusually vicious, even for that character. When you were developing the show, how much did you decide to stick to the comics versus deciding just to go your own way with those characters?
BH: It’s a tricky balance, because obviously you don’t want to simply create a new character. You have to create a character that is that recognizable iconic character and they have to have their iconic characteristics. On the other hand, if we just deliver a character that the viewers have seen before, then we’re failing those viewers. Because the Batman world is so vast and full of so many great iterations of these characters, you can’t simply take those elements and regurgitate them. You have to give the audience a fresh look.
For me, with Penguin, it was important to be true to the psychology of that kind of person, and the sort of graphic novel version of the character, as opposed to a comic book version of the character. Also, this is Penguin as a young man, striving and struggling and hungry. He’s going to be a very different from the character he ultimately becomes and who has reached his goals in life. Right now, Penguin is that hungry, violent, scrabbling character that he must have been in order to get where he got to. All I can promise is we work very closely with Jeff Johns at DC to make sure we’re not betraying the essence of who these people are, because that would be pointless. We’re never going to sort of change up the characters simply for the shock value of changing them. It’s our job to deliver something new and interesting to viewers, and that involves taking chances now and again.
If a person is a fan of the mythology, they know who almost all of the characters are eventually going to become, so what has the process been like creating the path that leads each character to their eventual destiny?
BH: I guess the main challenge is reverse engineering enough that we have a journey to take without destroying all of the iconic elements of the characters that people know and love. At the same time, you want that journey to be as long and as interesting as possible, so we can’t start with the fully-fledged characters, even if we wanted to. There’s a whole bunch of history that has to happen before those characters emerge in all their finery.
For me, that’s a big part of the fun of the show, both making it and watching it, I hope, is seeing these people as young people and seeing how they’re going to change over time and giving them space to grow. It’s hard, though, to describe in simple terms how that works.
A lot of the challenge with TV as opposed to movies is that you have to leave enough room for the actors to tell their characters’ story. Sometimes you don’t know where a character is going to go and what’s going to happen to them until you’ve seen the actor take hold of that part and make it their own. Then, sort of like novelists say, the book starts to write itself, the characters start to tell their own story, and then we know where they’re going as opposed to mapping it out step by step. We have broad, general strokes, but, again, you have to leave space for these characters to live and breathe.
Do you have a favorite scene so far from Gotham that you can talk a bit about without spoilers?
BH: I very rarely watch the first few episodes of a series with glee. I tend to see the things I wish we’d done differently. However, in this case, I thought it was all gripping. To a degree, my favorite scene is the opening sequence. It played out pretty much as I’d seen it in my imagination, so that was a thrill.I also think the scene in the pilot with Penguin [Robin Lord Taylor] and Gordon [Ben McKenzie] on the waterfront has such cinematic juice that you can so rarely achieve on TV. If I had to pick an individual scene, that would be it. You have two great actors really bringing it and a director really catching it.
We know all these characters that you’re going to include, and a lot of people know about characters that we hope you include, but are there any characters in the stories or comic books that you knew from the beginning you would not include on the show and why? Are there any parts of the DC Universe where you definitely don’t want to go?
BH: There are certain characters that would be very, very difficult to put on the screen. That crocodile guy is a tough one, although we may go there. We haven’t excluded anyone from the mix, potentially, but generally what we’re looking at are characters where there is some drama or a story behind how they got to be the way they are. We’re looking for characters that can live in the real world of Gotham as opposed to the even more super-real world of Metropolis, if you like. It’s not about super powers, but rather super will. We’ve focused on those characters that are interesting as people as opposed to their particular power, particular gimmick or costume. That’s how I would divide that world. So the simple answer is, no. We’re ready to go with any of them.
Sean Pertwee’s take on the Alfred character is very different take from others we’ve seen. How much of Alfred’s and James Gordon’s conflicting father-type influences with Bruce Wayne will play a part in the first season.
BH: I wouldn’t say that Alfred is the bad father, but he’s certainly the permissive, enabling father as opposed to Gordon, who represents the law. What Sean brings to the part is a kind of avuncular strength, but also a sense of irony and a strength and power.
To take it a step back, in order for Bruce (David Mazouz) to turn into Batman, Alfred had to be an enabler. Bruce could not have done this in secret; at some point they made a pact, whether spoken or unspoken, that this was going to be allowed. So you had to have an actor with an edge of danger to him, and who would not simply play the good, loyal caretaker, but also someone with his own sense of rage inside him. Whoever we chose had to be able to carry the latter, but lightly, and that’s what Sean does so brilliantly. That, to me, is who Alfred is, and is what Michael Caine used to play [in the Batman feature films]. I’m not sure that it is such a leap from the previous characterizations. It’s a leap from the very old style of Alfred where he’s kind of much more the English butler than the soldier.
We went for a dynamic character who can carry his own stories and who is a genuine, positive, dynamic influence in Bruce’s life. That required an actor with great charisma and strength and also, underneath, you have to feel that he loves and cares for this kid. So it’s a very tricky line Sean is walking, and he’s walking it brilliantly.
Actor Sam Elliott.
FX has cast Sam Elliott and Garret Dillahunt in recurring roles on its critically-acclaimed, award-winning drama series Justified, which enters its final season January 2015.
Sam Elliott will portray “Markham,” a legendary Kentucky gangster who returns from exile with a private army and bags of cash (earned growing legal weed in Colorado), hell-bent on winning back his empire and the lost love of his life, Katherine Hale (Mary Steenburgen). He'll find himself butting heads with Raylan and Boyd and even with Katherine herself, who secretly believes that Markham is the rat who brought down her husband.
Actor Garret Dillahunt.
Garret Dillahunt will play “Walker”, a spec ops veteran who's spent much of the last decade deployed in combat zones, first as a soldier and most recently as a private contractor. He now handles security for a quasi-legal businessman, a job to which he brings all of the skills (as well as the demons) he acquired during his military career. Walker hides his simmering rage behind an exterior of cold professionalism -- until the combined irritants of Raylan and Boyd wear away his veneer and bring the monster to the surface.
Based on Elmore Leonard’s novella “Fire in the Hole,” Justified was developed by Graham Yost and stars Timothy Olyphant as “Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens”, a lawman who finds himself drawn back to his home state of Kentucky. The series co-stars Walton Goggins as “Boyd Crowder;” Nick Searcy as Givens’ longtime friend and boss “Chief Deputy Art Mullen;” Jacob Pitts as “Deputy Marshal Tim Gutterson;” Erica Tazel as “Deputy Marshal Rachel Brooks;” Joelle Carter as “Ava Crowder;” and Jere Burns as “Wynn Duffy.” Yost wrote the pilot and serves as Executive Producer/Writer on the series. Executive Producers on the series include Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman, Michael Dinner, Fred Golan, Dave Andron, Don Kurt, and the late Elmore Leonard. Justified is produced by Sony Pictures Television and FX Productions.
Actor Nick Frost.
Production on 2014's Doctor Who Christmas episode has begun, with a host of British acting talent set to appear. The Doctor Who Christmas special, a cracker of a highlight in the festive season’s schedule, will air Christmas Day on BBC AMERICA and promises to be an action-packed adventure.
Nick Frost, actor and screen writer, has starred in numerous hit film and television roles, including Spaced, The World’s End, Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, Cuban Fury and Paul, which he also wrote.
Nick comments: “I'm so thrilled to have been asked to guest in the Doctor Who Christmas special, I'm such a fan of the show. The read-through was very difficult for me; I wanted to keep stuffing my fingers into my ears and scream "No spoilers!” Every day on set I’ve had to silence my internal fan boy squeals!"
(L-R): Fellow actors and brothers David Troughton and Michael Troughton.
Michael Troughton (Breathless, The New Statesman), who has recently returned to acting, will follow in his father’s footsteps by appearing in Doctor Who. His father, Patrick Troughton, played the second incarnation of the Doctor.
They will be joined by Natalie Gumede (Coronation Street, Ideal, Strictly Come Dancing), Faye Marsay (Pride, The White Queen, Fresh Meat) and Nathan McMullen (Misfits, Casualty).
Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer, says: “Frost at Christmas - it just makes sense! I worked with Nick on the Tintin movie many years ago and it's a real pleasure to lure him back to television for a ride on the TARDIS.”
The Doctor Who Christmas special will air on BBC AMERICA. Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Paul Wilmshurst (Strike Back, Combat Kids ), it will be shot in Cardiff at BBC Wales Roath Lock Studios.
