Karen Gillan & Hugh Bonneville Set To Lead Miniseries ‘Douglas is Cancelled’ – OutLoud! Tradition
Selection stories that Karen Gillan and Hugh Bonneville have signed for the main roles within the upcoming restricted drama entitled Douglas is Cancelled. It facilities round a veteran information anchor whose life and profession will get disrupted after turning into getting cancelled on social media. Physician Who author and Sherlock Holmes creator, Stephen Moffat is behind the brand new sequence.
“I simply sat down and wrote this,” Moffat stated. “Didn’t even inform anybody what I used to be doing. And now it’s all occurring, due to the superb Sue Vertue (famend TV producer and in a uncommon second of weak spot, my spouse). I can’t fairly consider we’ve managed to get the mighty Hugh Bonneville concerned as Douglas and that we’ve lured my previous good friend Karen Gillan again from Hollywood to play Madeline. And like that’s not sufficient, we’ve obtained Ben Miles, Alex Kingston, Nick Mohammed and Simon Russell Beale. It’s the form of forged that makes you terrified about getting into the room.”
“Within the sequence, Douglas lives an ideal life. He enjoys his privileged standing as nationwide treasure and host of present affairs present ‘Stay at Six’ whereas off-air he shares a harmonious house with spouse Sheila, a newspaper editor,” reads the synopsis. “However their world is turned the wrong way up when, at a household marriage ceremony, he’s overheard making an ‘ill-advised joke.’ As a visitor threatens to reveal Douglas on social media the rumor mill goes into overdrive and sparks off a digital storm that shortly upends his life and profession. Along with her 2 million social media followers, tech-savvy co-anchor Madeline might throw Douglas a lifeline by posting in his protection . . . however will she?”
