“There’s been a tweet.” Uh-oh. These are the phrases that begin the dominos falling for journalist Douglas (Hugh Bonneville) within the British sequence Douglas Is Cancelled, from Steven Moffat.
The four-episode sequence, which additionally stars Karen Gillan, is coming to BritBox on Thursday, March 6, and TV Insider has an unique first take a look at the trailer. The forged additionally consists of Nick Mohammed, Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles, and Alex Kingston. (It’s a Physician Who reunion for Moffat, Gillan, Kingston, and Bonneville, in addition to a Coupling reunion for Moffat and Miles.)
In Douglas Is Cancelled, a tweet about Bonneville’s character alleges he made a sexist joke at a marriage. That goes viral — his spouse Sheila (Kingston) isn’t happy when Madeline (Gillan), his co-host on a well-liked present affairs present – retweets to her over two million followers. (Madeline is younger and sharp, Douglas middle-aged and extremely revered.) That tweet tears Douglas’ life aside, and he tries to avoid wasting his profession with assist from Sheila, editor Toby (Miles), and agent Bentley (Beale).
“I used to be a bit of drunk,” Douglas, who says he doesn’t keep in mind the joke, concedes within the trailer, however Toby disagrees, despite the fact that he wasn’t there. “We’re journalists, we’re by no means there,” Toby argues. “Having opinions about issues we didn’t witness is all the level of our existence.”
At one level, Douglas says he can’t inform the reality “as a result of I work in tv.” So is he actually responsible or a sufferer of cancel tradition? That and the way Madeline is caught in it in all — “It wasn’t a joke, although, was it? It was a narrative, and the story you advised them was about me,” she says on the finish of the trailer — are the questions for the well timed sequence about gender politics and trial by social media.
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Becoming a member of creator Moffat as govt producers on the present are director Ben Palmer and Sue Vertue. Lawrence Until is producer.
Douglas Is Cancelled, US Streaming Premiere, Thursday, March 6, BritBox