For your eyes only Fleming comes exclusively to Sky customers this February
FLEMING will TX on Wednesday 12th February at 9pm on Sky Atlantic HD and will be available to download on Sky Go from 5th February at 9pm.
Dominic Cooper (Captain America: The First Avenger) plays Ian Fleming, the cunning creator of one of the most famous fictional heroes, James Bond, in Sky Atlantic’s four-part dramatization of Fleming’s life. There’s no questioning the iconic status of the man they call 007, and FLEMING explores how some of the real-life exploits of Ian Fleming became the inspiration for one of the most enduring and successful characters ever..
Untroubled by the spectre of impending war, roguish playboy Ian Fleming chases women, collects rare books and lives off the family fortune. Forever in the shadow of his brother Peter (Rupert Evans) and an eternal disappointment to his formidable mother Eve (Lesley Manville), Ian is finally given some direction in his life when he’s recruited by Admiral John Godfrey (Samuel West) to help in the effort against the Nazis. With the somewhat sceptical support of tough-cookie Second Officer Monday (Anna Chancellor), Ian’s extraordinary imagination and ability to spin a yarn makes him a perfect fit for espionage.
In tandem, the stakes increase as Ian’s chance encounter with the captivating Lady Ann O’Neill (Lara Pulver) becomes a passionate affair that shapes both their lives. Directed by Mat Whitecross (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and the BAFTA®-nominated Road to Guantanamo) and written by John Brownlow and Don Macpherson, Fleming captures both the opulence of high society London and the suspense and intrigue behind enemy lines.
While Bond fans will spot many a nod to the legendary agent, the series is ultimately a gripping account of a playboy spy and the woman who won his heart.
By the end of 2014, Sky will invest £600 million a year in British programmes across its portfolio of channels. This commitment includes home-grown content such as upcoming entertainment quiz DUCK QUACKS DON’T ECHO, dramas such as MOONFLEET, THE TUNNEL, DRACULA, A YOUNG DOCTOR’S NOTEBOOK, FLEMING and THE SMOKE, comedies such as STELLA, DOLL & EM,THE KUMARS and factual shows such as KARL PILKINGTON: THE MOANING OF LIFE, THE SOUTH BANK SHOW, THE FACE and ROSS KEMP EXTREME WORLD.
For further information please contact:
Luke Morrison - Publicity Manager, Sky Atlantic
T: +44 (0) 20 7032 1479
Annabel Rudden – Publicist, Sky Entertainment
T: +44 (0)207 032 6845
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About Sky
Sky is the UK and Ireland’s leading home entertainment and communications company. Around 40% of all homes have a direct relationship with Sky through its range of TV, broadband and home telephony services.
Sky is the UK’s biggest investor in television content, investing more than £2.5 billion a year in channels such as Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Living, Sky Arts, Sky Sports, Sky Movies and Sky News. Around two-thirds of Sky’s content spend is invested in the UK and Sky is the fastest-growing source of investment in original British programmes. More than 30 million people watch Sky content each week.
Alongside its commitment to offering customers a greater choice of high-quality content, Sky is a leading innovator. Customers enjoy total control and flexibility over their favourite TV through Sky+, watch TV on the move through Sky Go, and enjoy the best quality TV experience at home through High Definition and 3D.
Sky distributes its content broadly over several platforms, including satellite, cable, IPTV, mobile and WiFi. NOW TV, Sky’s second consumer brand, builds on the company’s leadership in internet TV. Sky is also the UK's fastest-growing home communications company and favourite ‘triple-play’ provider of TV, broadband and home phone.
Sky believes in making a wider contribution to the communities in which it operates by taking positive action on the environment, supporting grassroots sports and increasing access to, and participation in, the arts. Sky employs 24,000 people, has annual revenues of £7.2 billion and is estimated to support a £5.9 billion contribution to UK GDP. Sky is listed on the London Stock Exchange (BSY).
Ecosse Films
Ecosse Films is a multi award-winning production company, specialising in high-quality drama for film and television, producing 12 films and over 300 hours of network television for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Showtime, Starz Channel and WGBH.
Ecosse produced the hugely successful film Mrs Brown, starring Judi Dench and Billy Connolly, which won a Golden Globe, several BAFTAS and two Oscar nominations.
Ecosse has also produced numerous TV series including BBC1'S acclaimed long-running drama Monarch of the Glen (72 hours) and more recently the BBC 1 hit series Mistresses, which has recently been successfully remade as a 13 part series for American network ABC. Series 2 of the American version will premiere in Autumn 2014.
Diana is the latest film to be produced by Ecosse Films. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Oscar nominated film Downfall), written by Stephen Jeffreys and starring the Oscar nominated actress Naomi Watts as Princess Diana, the film focuses on the last two years of Princess Diana's life.
Next in production is Girls Night Out. Directed by Julian Jarrold the film is a fairy tale re-imagining of V.E. Day in 1945, when Princess Margaret and her sister Elizabeth were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night, where they encounter romance and danger.
Ecosse has two four-part dramas currently in production. As well as making Fleming for Sky Atlantic HD Ecosse are just about to begin production on ‘The Great Fire’ for ITV. Set in 1666 during the fire which decimated the City of London, this four part brand new period drama is written by ITN Political Editor, and novelist, Tom Bradby. The scale and ambition of the drama will be immense as the story follows the lives and loves of both historical and fictional characters in a world where, on the surface, the rich have everything and the poor have nothing.
Ecosse has achieved international success with several films; Charlotte Gray starring Cate Blanchett, Becoming Jane starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy, Brideshead Revisited starring Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon, and the global family hit The Water Horse.
The BAFTA nominated film Nowhere Boy, the teenage biopic of John Lennon directed by Sam Taylor-Wood starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne Marie Duff and Aaron Johnson, premiered at the London Film Festival in 2009 to exceptional reviews and was released in 2010 in the US by The Weinstein Company.
New film productions in development include a biopic about Florence Nightingale and an unlikely love story, Hampstead Heath.
