“The Long Shadow,” a real crime drama by “Hijack” and “Lupin” creator George Kay, has revealed a stellar solid.
Directed by BAFTA-winner director Lewis Arnold (“Sherwood,” “Time,” “Des”) the 7 x 60′ for U.Ok. broadcaster ITV and streamer ITVX, drama is an outline of the five-year hunt for serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, specializing in the lives of the victims who crossed his path and people of the officers on the coronary heart of the police investigation.
Toby Jones (“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”) performs Dennis Hoban, who initially led the enquiry, with David Morrissey (“Sherwood”) as George Oldfield, who took on the investigation. The solid additionally contains Lee Ingleby, Katherine Kelly, Daniel Mays, Sydney Jackson, Shaun Thomas, Jill Halfpenny, Daisy Waterstone, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Molly Wright, Liz White, Shaun Dooley, Alexa Davies, Chloe Harris, Stephen Tompkinson, Jack Deam, Michael McElhatton, Adam Long, Ruth Madeley, Dorothy Atkinson, Rob James-Collier, Charley Webb, Steven Waddington and Kris Hitchen.
New Pictures, the impartial manufacturing firm behind “Des” and “White House Farm,” produced the drama in Yorkshire. ITV head of drama Polly Hill commissioned “The Long Shadow,” which was produced in affiliation with Sundance Now, which holds unique rights within the U.S. and Canada, and All3Media International, who’s distributing the collection internationally.
New Pictures co-founder and CEO Willow Grylls serves as government producer alongside Kay, Arnold and Elaine Pyke. The collection is produced by Matt Sandford (“Des”), collection produced by Sarah Lewis (“Noughts + Crosses”) and co-produced by Alison Matthews (“Trigger Point”). Hill is overseeing manufacturing for ITV.
“The Long Shadow” shall be on ITV1 and ITVX in September.
