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EXCLUSIVE: Look distant now Keir Starmer.
As nan UK Prime Minister’s vulnerable Labour authorities is plunged into chaos, Channel 4 has chosen a bully time to unveil first looks of Steven Moffat‘s governmental play Number 10.
The Sherlock co-creator has ever been clear that he is not basing nan Downing Street bid connected immoderate peculiar PM, but it is surely ramping up trading astatine a timely moment.
Pics show Rafe Spall arsenic Prime Minister Harry Douglas, Katherine Kelly arsenic Chief of Staff Frances Telford and Jenna Coleman arsenic Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Flynn. Kelly is moreover joined by 10 Downing Street’s longest-serving resident, Larry nan cat.
Number 10’s synopsis reads: “There’s a Prime Minister successful nan attic, a java barroom successful nan basement, and a wallpapered labyrinth of romance, situation and heartbreak in-between. Set successful nan only terrace location successful history pinch mice and a atomic deterrent, it’s nan only knock-through successful nan world wherever a hangover tin commencement a war. The authorities will be fictional and unspecific, but nan problems will beryllium real. We’ll ne'er cognize which statement is successful power, because erstwhile nan full world hits nan instrumentality it hardly matters.”
The last condemnation feels apt fixed that Starmer’s Labour management is crumbling. Yesterday, 1 of his antecedently closest allies, Health Secretary Wes Streeting, resigned pinch a blistering broadside. Starmer is expected to look a activity situation from Streeting positive others aft a disastrous group of section predetermination results and facing aggravated title from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Number 10 also stars Akshay Khanna (Murderbot, Critical Incident), Abigail Lawrie (No Escape, The Casual Vacancy), Laura Haddock (What It Feels Like For A Girl, Downton Abbey: A New Era), Jing Lusi (Red Eye, Crazy Rich Asians), Pierro Niel-Mee (Andor, Slow Horses), Rick Warden (Happy Valley, The Sixth Commandment), Joe Wilkinson (Afterlife, The Cookfields), Robyn Cara (Trying, Rainmaker), Richard Rankin (Rebus, Outlander), Rhiannon Clements (The Power of Parker, Vera), Patrick Baladi (The Office, Line of Duty), Shaun Prendergast (Wicked, Industry), Harry Baxendale (The Radleys, Shadow and Bone), Alex Macqueen (The Feud, Seven Dials Mystery), Sid Sagar (The Batman, Slow Horses), Sam Alexander (The Jury; Murder Trial, Sister Boniface Mysteries), Emer Kenny (Karen Pirie, The Curse) and Gary Lamont (Outlander).
Commissioned for Channel 4 by Gwawr Lloyd, Interim Head of Channel 4 Drama, nan executive producers for Hartswood Films are Moffat and Sue Vertue pinch Lawrence Till (The Devil’s Hour, The Young Offenders) arsenic nan producer. Rachel Stone will beryllium nan co-producer. The head will beryllium Ben Palmer (Douglas Is Cancelled, The Inbetweeners).
Number 10 is produced successful relation pinch and will beryllium distributed by ITV Studios.
