{"id":138861,"date":"2022-11-25T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/downton-abbeys-michelle-dockery-leads-steven-knight-drama-this-town-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:56:00","slug":"downton-abbeys-michelle-dockery-leads-steven-knight-drama-this-town-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/downton-abbeys-michelle-dockery-leads-steven-knight-drama-this-town-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217;s Michelle Dockery Leads Steven Knight Drama This Town \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>Downton Abbey <\/em>star Michelle Dockery is to lead <em>Peaky Blinders <\/em>creator Steven Knight&#8217;s personal drama <em>This Town<\/em> for the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tKnight&#8217;s six-parter is rolling the cameras in Birmingham and has cast a string of other British actors including Nicholas Pinnock (<em>Marcella) <\/em>and David Dawson (<em>My Policeman)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tpreviously called <em>Two Tones, <\/em>the show tells the story of an extended family and four young people who are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late &#8217;70s and early &#8217;80s, uniting black, white and Asian youths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tUniversal Music Group&#8217;s Mercury Studios is co-producer and will \u201cbring in an exciting range of high profile musical artists to help lay the backdrop for Knight&#8217;s incredible story,\u201d according to the BBC.  Mercury is co-producing alongside Banijay-backed Kudos and Nebulastar in association with Kudos North, Stigma Films and Nick Angel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\t\u201cThis is a project very close to my heart,\u201d said the prolific Knight, whose war drama <em>SAS: Rogue Heroes <\/em>is currently airing on BBC One. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\t\u201cIt&#8217;s about an era I lived through and know well and it involves characters who I feel I grew up with.  It&#8217;s a love letter to Birmingham and Coventry but I hope people from all over the world will relate to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tKnight is creator, writer and exec producer alongside Karen Wilson, Martin Haines, Katie McAleese, Jo McLellan, Laura Conway, Matthew James Wilkinson and Nick Angel.  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