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Airdate: Midnight Man

Alan "Mr. Everywhere" Dale pops up in yet another international drama.

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He’s done it again….

Alan “Mr. Everywhere” Dale pops up in another international drama -this time the Carnival Film & Television Production, Midnight Man.

The 2008 political thriller stars James Nesbitt and is a 2 parter. Part 1 airs this Friday at 8:30pm on ABC1.

With the Lost finale, Dale is sure going to be a busy man “this week.”

Midnight Man is a political thriller centering around Max Raban, a once successful investigative journalist who has fallen from grace and is reduced to a nightly trawl through the bins of the rich and famous. The work suits Max until he becomes embroiled in a political cover up where everyone thinks he is just a mad, phobic conspiracy theorist. Framed for murder and on the run will Max be able to get to the truth?

Starring James Nesbitt (Cold Feet), Catherine McCormack (Braveheart), Rupert Graves (Clapham Junction), Ian Puleston Davies (Vincent), Reece Dinsdale (Conviction), Zara Turner (The Brief) and Alan Dale (Ugly Betty).

Disgraced journalist Max Raban is reduced to raking through bins for celebrity stories, a thankless task that suits him because of his phobia of daylight. His condition has already estranged him from his wife and daughter and he’s desperate for a real story and his old life back. When he discovers the murder of two Iranian cousins, Max starts to suspect that there is a death squad at work, targeting pro-Islamists and backed by an organisation bent on waging perpetual war. Is Max an investigative journalist at last or is the conspiracy theorist in him clouding his better judgement?

On the run from the police for supposedly killing his wife, Max joins forces with Alice to prove the existence of the illegal death squad via its apparent links to the government think tank Defence Concern. News of the existence of a trophy tape featuring one of the Iranian murders offers hope, but can Max and Alice get hold of a copy before ‘God’s Fist’ closes in?

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  1. I want Alan Dale to return as Jim Robinson’s ghost in a Paul Robinson dream sequence in Neighbours. I think it be great if Alan returned as a sort of apparition and hung around for a few weeks to dish out some advice to Paul about what he had to do. And in this dream sequence Alan Dale is more like his Widmore character.

  2. If any Lost fans here havent seen last week’s episode yet, don’t read this comment!

    he’s actually dead in Lost as of the last episode, so in fact he probably Won’t be in the finale.

  3. Alan Dale has grown into a great actor and has surely had the last laugh over Neighbours.

    He’s very memorable in Lost and has turned in some fine performances over the years.

    He’s also proof you don’t have to be an ex-Neighbours star and go the singing route to have a life after the show – good luck to him I say!

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