Stephen Graham & Sean Bean To Star In BBC Prison Drama ‘Time’

Jake Kanter International TV EditorHello International Insider friends, and happy Friday. Jake Kanter here with some Deadline must-reads in the week that U.S.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorDominic West, the British actor who has starred in The Wire and The Affair, did not hold back when asked about Donald Trump testing positive for coronavirus.Appearing on ITV breakfast show Good Morning Britain, West was asked if he had an instinctive reaction when he heard that the U.S. president had contracted coronavirus.“I did slightly leap in the air with joy,” he said.

Clayton Davis The first official trailer for Lee Isaac Chung’s critically lauded Sundance hit, “Minari,” has landed.Chung, who also wrote the script inspired by his own childhood, tells the story of a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny farm in Arkansas in search of better opportunities.Split between the Korean and English language, the trailer highlights and emphasizes the beautiful ensemble of actors that Chung assembles.

Peter White Television EditorThe Gurin Company, run by Phil Gurin, whose credits include exec producing ABC’s Shark Tank, has teamed with Jeremy Fox’s format firm Action Time to bring back British entertainment format Game for a Laugh.This comes after Fox relaunched Action Time, the formats firm that he ran after creating The Krypton Factor.

Marta Balaga Currently shooting her new film and unable to travel to Switzerland due to new COVID-19 restrictions, British actress Olivia Colman tuned in live on Saturday to accept her Golden Eye Award at the Zurich Film Festival, taking place physically and celebrating its 16th edition.

Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are going to be parents! The couple, who wed in 2019, revealed they’re expecting their first child together. The actress, 33, surprised fans when she debuted her baby bump in a photoshoot for the latest edition of Britain’s Make Magazine on September 26. She and Kit, 33, who starred opposite each other as Jon Snow and Ygritte on the HBO series Game of Thrones, first met on set.

Black Mirror director Toby Haynes is set to helm a new Star Wars Rogue One spin-off series.Haynes is replacing Tony Gilroy in the director’s chair for the Disney+ show, which sources claim is due to coronavirus-related travel issues.As Deadline reports, sources say that Gilroy was uncertain whether to travel from his home in New York to the UK to undertake directing duties for the show, which is about to begin production.Haynes is set to direct the first three episodes of the show, having

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate UK and Gangs Of London star Sope Dirisu have joined Number 9 Films’ (Carol) feature drama Mothering Sunday, which is now underway in UK .As we revealed earlier this year, the film will also star Odessa Young, BAFTA-nominee Josh O’Connor and Oscar winners Colin Firth and Olivia Colman.Director Eva Husson’s (Girls Of The Sun) movie is written by Emmy-nominee Alice Birch (Normal People, Succession), and is based on the novel of the same name

Naman Ramachandran Stephen Graham (“The Irishman”) and Sean Bean (“Game of Thrones”) will star in three-part prison drama series “Time,” created by Jimmy McGovern (“Accused”) for U.K. broadcaster BBC One.Set within the British penal system, the drama is seen through the eyes of two different men, a teacher, husband and father who killed an innocent man in an accident, played by Bean, and a caring prison officer, played by Graham.

“True Blood” co-stars and real-life spouses Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are opening the doors to their eccentric Los Angeles home to Architectural Digest, which is showcasing the couple’s abode in its latest issue.

Oscar-winner Sir Anthony Hopkins and rising British name Johnny Flynn (Beast, Emma) are set to star in One Life, a drama based on the incredible true story of humanitarian Sir Nicholas George. See-Saw Films and BBC Films are behind the project, with co-managing director Iain Canning (Lion, The King's Speech) and Joanna Laurie producing and Aisling Walsh (Maudie, Elizabeth is Missing) set to direct.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes) and rising Brit actor Johnny Flynn (Emma) are attached to star in One Life, a feature drama based on the true story of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton who helped save hundreds of children from the Nazis on the eve of World War Two.Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl) and Nick Drake (Romulus) have co-written the screenplay based on the extraordinary story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton who, when just 29 years