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Airdate: The Little Drummer Girl

UK thriller directed by Park Chan-wook coms to BBC First in November.

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BBC First has locked on The Little Drummer Girl from mid-November 14.

From the producers of The Night Manager and based on John le Carré’s best-selling spy thriller of the same name it stars Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies), Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water) and Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) and is directed by South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, The Handmaiden).

The Little Drummer Girl is a passionate love story and a deeply immersive thriller. As audacious now as when the book was first published, it portrays a world in which the lines between hero and villain, and between love and hate, are dangerously in flux.

Set in the late 1970s, the pulsating thriller follows Charlie (Pugh), a young, fiery but unfulfilled British actress and idealist whose resolve is tested after she meets the mysterious Becker (Skarsgård,) while on holiday in Greece. It quickly becomes apparent that his intentions are not what they seem, and her encounter with him entangles her in a complex plot devised by the spy mastermind Kurtz (Shannon).

Charlie takes on the role of a lifetime as a double agent in the ‘Theatre of the Real’, but despite her natural mastery of the task-at-hand, she increasingly finds herself inexorably drawn into a dangerous world of duplicity and compromised humanity. Blurring the fine lines between love and hate, truth and fiction, and right and wrong; The Little Drummer Girl weaves a suspenseful and explosive story of espionage and high-stakes international intrigue.

This layered and complex international thriller, from the executive producers of Golden Globe® and Emmy® award-winning series The Night Manager also marks the television debut of visionary filmmaker, Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden). The award-winning director helms all six episodes of this landmark drama. The Little Drummer Girl was filmed at locations across the globe, including the streets of London and Prague and architectural phenomena such as the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis and the Temple of Poseidon on Greece’s Attica Peninsula.

Wednesdays from November 14 at 8.30pm on BBC First.

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  1. Read an interesting article with Florence Pugh, she said the BBC had to temper the nude scenes to appease the US …….. can blow someone away with a gun but please no nipples or bums!!

  2. That’s even before it’s broadcast in the US on the AMC network … November 19th!!! but 3 weeks behind the UK. Not really fast-track but quick by BBC First normal broadcast delays.

    Lets hope its as good as The Night Manager.

  3. This is the first time I have heard of it. If it is as good as The Night Manager, that just shows the benefits of big name casting like, “Loki” and “House”.

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