As a silver fox news anchor
Rob Delaney has been cast in the new Amazon thriller The Power.
The comedian and Catastrophe star will play a ‘silver fox news anchor’ in the show – based on the bestselling novel by Naomi Alderman – with Alice Eve playing his ambitious co-host.
The show, which is already in production, stars Tim Robbins as Daniel Dandon, the self-righteous and self-important Republican Governor of Washington State and constant thorn in the side of Margot Cleary-Lopez, the Democratic Mayor of Seattle (Leslie Mann).
Action over the ten-part series, directed by The Handmaid’s Tale’s Reed Morano, also takes place in London, Nigeria and Moldova as it tells of how the world is turned upside-down when all teenage girls suddenly develop the power to electrocute people at will.
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SIMON MUNNERY: THE MANCHESTER EXPERIMENT: Before Christmas, the comedian put a VHS labelled only The Manchester Experiment, 17th May 2001, into the post with a note reading: I tried this twice, it worked once . He sent it to Go Faster Stripe, the DVD label that has put out many of his shows - and with will tonight stage a one-off screening, introduced by the innovative Munnery himself. Go Faster Stripe s Chris Evans said: I don t really want to tell you any more about it so that you can experience the thing the same way I did. Tickets are available now from Go Faster Stripe, priced £5.