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Airdate: Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond

Dominic Cooper stars as James Bond creator Ian Fleming in this miniseries on ABC.

2014-10-27_0007ABC will air 2014 BBC America miniseries Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond starring Dominic Cooper as James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Originally due to air earlier this year, the four part series will screen as 2 x 90 minute episodes over the next two Sunday nights.

Ian Fleming (Dominic Cooper) is a dissolute playboy, living in the shadow of his dead war hero father, his adventurer/author brother and his domineering mother. He’s clinging to a job at a stockbroker’s firm but when he loses his one and only client his mother Eve (Lesley Manville) decides it’s time to intervene. She calls Winston Churchill himself and it just so happens that, with a war impending, Naval Intelligence is looking for bright young things with imagination and the ability to think outside the box.

Working as assistant to Rear Admiral John Godfrey (Samuel West), Ian is put to work in ‘Room 39’ whipping the team into shape with his Etonian charm and confidence. With London in a heightened state, promiscuous, hedonistic Fleming meets and is intrigued by Ann O’Neill (Lara Pulver), a wealthy and connected socialite who, unlike many of his conquests, is more than a match for him. But she already has a husband and a lover.

8:30pm Sunday, 2 November

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