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The actress who is playing the Prime Ministers fiance in a new Covid-19 TV drama has made her pro-Labour views clear on her social media.  Ophelia Lovibond will play Carrie Symonds in the upcoming drama about Boris Johnsons handling of the coronavirus pandemic.  Sir Kenneth Branagh will play the Prime Minister in the new series This Sceptred Isle which is being made by SKYTV.  Lovibond is known for her roles in Guardians Of The Galaxy and comedy series Feel Good.  Ophelia Lovibond will pla...

TV hatchet job on Boris and Carrie: Written by a lifelong Leftie, it mixes fact and fiction like The Crown and its packed with scenes of dubious taste including the PMs fiancee giving birth – while hes shown tormented by dreams about ex-lovers Series starring Kenneth Branagh and Ophelia Lovibond began filming this week However, This Sceptred Isle risks igniting controversy for mixing fact and fiction  Scenes in Sky Atlantic series include Carrie Symonds giving birth to their son

W1A star Ophelia Lovibond will play Carrie Symonds in the upcoming drama about Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.

Ophelia Lovibond Credit: Eamonn M. McCormack /Getty Images Europe  Ophelia Lovibond will play Carrie Symonds in the upcoming drama about Boris Johnsons handling of the coronavirus crisis. A first-look image of Branagh in the role showed the 60-year-old actor with blond tousled hair as he stares, frowning, into the distance. Lovibond, who is also known for her roles in Guardians Of The Galaxy and comedy series Feel Good, will play the Prime Ministers fiancee. Simon Paisley Day, who recently ...

More casting for the drama has been confirmed

How uncanny is this? Kenneth Branagh has been given a Boris Johnson style makeover and is set to play the PM in miniseries This Sceptred Isle. Looking scarily similar to Boris, Kenneth can be seen wearing a blond wig and prosthetics for the upcoming five-part series due out in Autumn 2022 based on the first wave of the pandemic in 2020. 

Sky have released the first photo of actor Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson in an upcoming drama series based on the Covid-19 pandemic. The Northern Irish actor (60) will be playing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a new limited series, This Sceptred Isle, which will air on Sky Atlantic in 2022. A photo shared by the broadcaster shows the actor with blond tousled hair as he stares, frowning, into the distance. A post on Sky TV’s Twitter page, which was shared alongside the image, said: “N...

Kenneth Branagh's likeness to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a major new Sky drama is incredible. The actor is portraying the PM in a drama about the Coiv-19 pandemic.

Where’s it on? BBC2, Sunday, 1.55am Never one for staying still, French director François Ozon rivals our own Michael Winterbottom for the sheer variety of projects on his CV and the speed with which he seems to bang them out. Not to get stuck in the rut making the erudite comedies and erotic thrillers that had shaped his 2010s up to this point, he turned his attentions to this very sober, mournful and elegant romantic drama set in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. Shot...

Friday, 26th February 2021 at 2:50 pm It was only a matter of time until coronavirus received the TV drama treatment and while we may still be in the midst of the pandemic, Sky Atlantic has announced upcoming series This Sceptred Isle, a dramatisation of COVID-19’s impact on the UK. Advertisement Starring Kenneth Branagh in frighteningly realistic prosthetics as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the five-parter is set to look at the government’s response to the pandemic’s first wave based...