Steve Coogan, Tom Burke and Hayley Squires have boarded Netflix‘s upcoming heist collection Legends.
From the creator of BBC One’s The Gold, Legends is impressed by one of the crucial exceptional prison investigations ever performed, following a bunch of British Customs staff despatched undercover to infiltrate a number of the nation’s most harmful prison drug gangs.
Burke, Coogan and Squires are joined by Aml Ameen (A Man in Full, Rustin), Jasmine Blackborow (The Gents, Marie Antoinette), Douglas Hodge (G20, Joker), Tom Hughes (The English, Victoria), Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow, Nice Expectations) , Gerald Kyd (The Murderer, Love Rat) and Charlotte Ritchie (YOU, Ghosts).
Within the early Nineteen Nineties, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise was shedding its battle with unlawful drug smuggling throughout Britain’s borders. The answer was extraordinary. In a top-secret operation, a small group of Customs staff have been despatched undercover. Their process – to infiltrate Britain’s most harmful drug gangs.
Legends comes from Neil Forsyth, who created The Gold for the BBC a few totally different heist. The manufacturing group can be the identical, with Forsyth and Ben Farrell producing for All3Media-backed Tannadice and Richard Bradley doing the identical for All3 stablemate Lion Tv.
Legends was unveiled by Netflix eventually 12 months’s Edinburgh TV Pageant. The Netflix UK group is having fairly the second this week with Adolescence, which has attracted rave opinions and is sitting atop the most-watched.