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Rob Lowe to lead new UK drama

US star to play a high-flying US cop who will shake up a UK police force.

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US actor Rob Lowe will star in and executive produced a new crime drama, Wild Bill, for the UK’s ITV.

He will play a high-flying US cop Bill Hixon who will shake up the East Lincolnshire force. When he lands in Boston, Lincolnshire, with his 14 year-old daughter Kelsey in tow, he’s hoping they can flee their painful recent past. But this unfamiliar, unimpressed community will force Bill to question everything about himself and leave him asking whether it’s Boston that needs Bill, or Bill that needs Boston?

“As an actor, Wild Bill is a larger than life character who’s outrageously articulate, has nothing to lose and revels in being an American fish out of water. As an Executive Producer, I’m excited to work with such talented partners and to come back to work in the UK, which I always love,”he said.

Wild Bill is created by David Griffiths (The Hunted, Collateral Damage), Kyle Killen (Halo, Awake) and Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble (Silent Witness, Thorne: Sleepyhead & Scaredycat, Trial & Retribution), and will be written by lead writers and show-runners Keeble and Appleton.

Writers and creators Jim Keeble and Dudi Appleton said: “Wild Bill gives us a chance to write about modern Britain and modern crime through unique eyes. We wrote this for Rob Lowe, for his smart-talking, anarchic, soulful voice. Displacing Rob in Brexit Britain and specifically in Boston, Lincolnshire allows us to tell stories that are leftfield and unexpected. We wanted to write something that couldn’t take place anywhere else, or at any other time.”

Filming will take place around London and in Lincolnshire from November 2018.

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  1. I actually know Boston quite well from time spent in the UK. It could certainly do with a bit of excitement; one of the most boring places I’ve been to in my time. SBS did a doco some time back on the tension there between the locals and EU immigrants (most from Eastern Europe) who won’t integrate. Familiar story that.

    1. This show probably wont be broadcast until this time next year, but as it’s likely FTA in Australia will not be interested in it (like Bodyguard) maybe it may be another attraction for Netflix (like Bodyguard), if so there could be a further wait for Rob Lowe fans who haven’t really seen a lot of success from his roles in recent times.

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