Sky 1 confirms TX date for Stan Lee’s Lucky Man 2 with extended trailer
Monday 23 January 2017
Sky 1’s most successful original drama series, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man - produced by Carnival Films, the Golden Globe® and Emmy® award-winning producers of Downton Abbey - returns for a second series on 24 February at 9.00pm.
James Nesbitt (The Secret, The Missing) heads up a returning cast that includes Eve Best (Nurse Jackie, The Honourable Woman), Sienna Guillory (Fortitude, High-Rise), Amara Karan (The Night Of, Kidnap and Ransom), Steven Mackintosh (The Halcyon, Luther) and Darren Boyd (Fortitude, Case Sensitive).
Joining series two is Dutch actress Thekla Reuten (Hidden, Restless, The American) as Isabella, a mysterious temptress who has more than a passing interest in DI Harry Clayton and the ancient bracelet that appears to bestow him with good fortune.
James Nesbitt reprises his role as Harry Clayton, the London-based murder detective struggling to come to terms with his gambling addiction and still reluctantly wearing the lucky charm attached to his wrist in series one. With the help of his partner, DS Suri Chohan (Amara Karan), Harry’s job is to solve particularly puzzling murder cases – while refusing to use his new-found ‘power’ to assist him in any way. However, after a chance meeting with the enigmatic Isabella, everything he thought he knew about the bracelet is turned on its head.
Also joining the cast are Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones, That Day We Sang), Jonathan Aris (The Night Manager, Sherlock) and Matthew McNulty (The Musketeers, Black Work).
Richard Fell and Gareth Neame are the executive producers for Carnival Films and Anne Mensah, Head of Drama and Anna Ferguson are the executive producers forSky 1. Stan Lee (Spider¬-Man™, X-Men™, The Fantastic Four™) and producing partner Gill Champion are co-executive producers. Madonna Baptiste is the producer of the second series.
The 10 x 60’ crime drama series is based on an original idea by Stan Lee and was made in collaboration with Lee’s multi-¬media entertainment company POW! Entertainment.
The series is produced by Carnival Films for Sky 1 and will be distributed globally by NBCUniversal International Distribution.
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Notes to Editors
About Sky
Sky is Europe’s leading entertainment company. The group serves 21 million customers across five countries: Italy, Germany, Austria, the UK and Ireland. We offer the best and broadest range of content, deliver market-leading customer service and use innovative new technology to give customers a better TV experience, whenever and wherever they choose. Sky has annual revenues of over £11 billion and is Europe’s leading investor in television content with a combined programming budget of over £4.6 billion. The company employs 31,000 people and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (SKY). For more information visit www.sky.com/corporate.
About Carnival Films
Carnival Films is a division of NBCUniversal International Studios and is the UK’s largest drama specialist. The company is responsible for the global television phenomenon Downton Abbey and numerous primetime series such as The Last Kingdom for BBC and co-produced with Netflix and Sky 1’s highest rating original drama series Stan Lee’s Lucky Man. Other shows produced over Carnival’s history include Poirot, Hotel Babylon, Whitechapel and Dracula as well as award-winning mini-series such as Traffik, Any Human Heart and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.
In addition to Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, Carnival’s current slate includes the second season of The Last Kingdom, the Shakespeare adaptation The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, a co-production with Neal Street for BBC/WNET PBS and Jamestown, a new series for Sky. Carnival has received a host of national and international awards including Primetime Emmys, GoldenGlobes and BAFTAs and has been recognized as the UK’s best production company at both the Bulldog Awards and Broadcast Awards.
POW! Entertainment Inc. is a multi-media entertainment companyfounded by noted comic bookwriter Stan Leetogetherwith award-winning producer Gill Champion and the late intellectual property specialist ArthurLieberman. POW!’s principals have extensive backgrounds in the creation and production of originalintellectual properties, including some of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time. POW! isutilizing Stan Lee’s historical background by perpetuating his legacywhile creating and developingall new live-action films,television, digital games,merchandising, licensingand related ancillary markets, all of which contributeto global expansion. POW! partners with third partiesand strategic alliances, including studiosand networks, inthe production and distribution of new POW! character franchises.
