Post by annabelleleigh on Sept 8, 2008 12:43:31 GMT -5
Maybe someone can enlighten us (me?) about these actors.
As we all may know, the UK has a somewhat dissimilar court system (and certainly a different set of laws) than the U.S. -- which would make a gander at this London spin-off interesting to me. No doubt someone somewhere will dutifully upload video to the Internet.
AL
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ITV names Law & Order cast·
Doctor Who star Freema Agyeman to play lawyer
Coronation Street's Bradley Walsh also in lineup
by Mark Sweney
The Guardian
September 8, 2008
Excerpt:
"ITV has unveiled an impressive British cast for its remake of the long-running US crime show Law & Order including Coronation Street's Bradley Walsh and Battlestar Galactica actor Jamie Bamber.
The UK version of Law & Order, which follows the work of police on the street through to legal action by the Crown Prosecution Service, starts filming this month.
ITV1's 13-part series stars Walsh, who has also featured in Torn and The Old Curiosity Shop, as Ronnie Brooks, "a real East End copper's copper".
He is partnered by Bamber, perhaps best-known as Apollo from Battlestar Galactica, as Matt Devlin, who tackles crime using "part seduction, part force".
The pair report to Detective Inspector Natalie Chandler, played by Harriet Walter, whose credits include Atonement.
Law & Order's legal side, featuring the workings of the CPS, is led by the Doctor Who and Torchwood actor Freema Agyeman as the "hard-working, strong-willed" prosecutor Alesha Phillips.
Senior crown prosecutor James Steel, a "man on a mission for justice", is played by Ben Daniels, who has starred in the BBC dramas The State Within and The Passion.
Bill Paterson, who has appeared in Little Dorrit and Criminal Justice, takes the role of CPS director George Castle, "a man trying to balance his ideals with the bigger picture".
As we all may know, the UK has a somewhat dissimilar court system (and certainly a different set of laws) than the U.S. -- which would make a gander at this London spin-off interesting to me. No doubt someone somewhere will dutifully upload video to the Internet.
AL
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ITV names Law & Order cast·
Doctor Who star Freema Agyeman to play lawyer
Coronation Street's Bradley Walsh also in lineup
by Mark Sweney
The Guardian
September 8, 2008
Excerpt:
"ITV has unveiled an impressive British cast for its remake of the long-running US crime show Law & Order including Coronation Street's Bradley Walsh and Battlestar Galactica actor Jamie Bamber.
The UK version of Law & Order, which follows the work of police on the street through to legal action by the Crown Prosecution Service, starts filming this month.
ITV1's 13-part series stars Walsh, who has also featured in Torn and The Old Curiosity Shop, as Ronnie Brooks, "a real East End copper's copper".
He is partnered by Bamber, perhaps best-known as Apollo from Battlestar Galactica, as Matt Devlin, who tackles crime using "part seduction, part force".
The pair report to Detective Inspector Natalie Chandler, played by Harriet Walter, whose credits include Atonement.
Law & Order's legal side, featuring the workings of the CPS, is led by the Doctor Who and Torchwood actor Freema Agyeman as the "hard-working, strong-willed" prosecutor Alesha Phillips.
Senior crown prosecutor James Steel, a "man on a mission for justice", is played by Ben Daniels, who has starred in the BBC dramas The State Within and The Passion.
Bill Paterson, who has appeared in Little Dorrit and Criminal Justice, takes the role of CPS director George Castle, "a man trying to balance his ideals with the bigger picture".