Super Channel Acquires Two UK Dramas from All3media International

Super Channel is pleased to announce it has acquired two compelling UK dramas from all3media International.

The first, Stephen Poliakoff's Close to the Enemy, a seven-part series mainly set in a bomb-damaged London hotel in the aftermath of the Second World War, will premiere on Thursday, November 10 at 10 p.m. ET (SC3) and will also be available to subscribers on Super Channel On Demand the following day.

Jim Sturgess (One Day, London Fields) heads a stellar cast including Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel, The Journey), Charlotte Riley (Peaky Blinders, In the Heart of the Sea), Phoebe FOX (NW, The Hollow Crown), August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds, Le jeune Karl Marx), Robert Glenister (Paranoid, Hustle), Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones, Pandemic), Charity Wakefield (Wolf Hall, The Halcyon), the legendary Angela Bassett (American Horror Story, London has Fallen), Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, Alice in Wonderland), and Alfred Molina (Love is Strange, Show Me a Hero).

Close to the Enemy follows intelligence officer - Captain Callum Ferguson (Sturgess). His last task for the Army is to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter (Diehl), starts working for the British RAF on urgently developing the Jet engine. With the background of the emerging Cold War it is clear to all that it's crucial for British national security that cutting edge technology is made available to the armed forces as quickly as possible. Callum uses unorthodox methods in his attempt to convince Dieter to work with the British and eventually a friendship develops between the two men, but soon tensions arise as all is not as it seems.

Over the course of the series, Callum encounters a number of other characters whose stories all intertwine. These characters include Victor (Highmore), Callum's younger brother, struggling to deal with psychological trauma caused by his experience in the war; Harold (Molina), an ex-Foreign Office official who reveals some startling truths about the outbreak of the war; Rachel (Riley), an enchanting Anglophile American engaged to his best friend; Kathy (Fox), a tough, young woman working for the War Crimes Unit, fighting to bring war criminals who escaped prosecution to justice. All these characters are trying to rebuild and move their lives forward in the aftermath of the war, a war that scarred them all so deeply.

Close to the Enemy is written and directed by the multi award-winning Stephen Poliakoff (Dancing on the Edge, Glorious 39, Gideon's Daughter) and produced by Helen Flint (Longford, The Take, Galavant). The executive producers are Helen Flint and Hilary Bevan Jones (Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, The Escape Artist).

Then in March 2017, the critically acclaimed series, The Missing, will return to Super Channel for a second gripping, eight-episode season with an all new story.

The first series of The Missing, the dramatic thriller about a young boy who mysteriously disappears, was a smash hit both in the UK and internationally. And now it returns with a new story, new location and new cast, with Tchéky Karyo (Goldeneye, The Patriot) reprising his role as detective Julien Baptiste.

A young British woman stumbles through the streets of her German hometown and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster, and she has been missing for 11 years. Alice's return sends shockwaves through the small community of Eckhausen, especially when it is revealed that she may hold vital clues to the whereabouts of another missing girl.

Told simultaneously over a number of timeframes, the series follows Alice's family as they are thrown back into a turmoil that threatens to tear them apart at the seams. French missing persons detective, Julien Baptiste, becomes embroiled in the mystery as he races across Europe to pursue a 12-year-old case that he never let die.

Through a gripping puzzle of twists and turns, this series explores the emotional complexity of what happens when a missing child returns, as well as following the thrilling chase for a missing girl who is yet to be found.

Joining the cast for season two are David Morrissey (The Walking Dead), Keeley Hawes (Line of Duty), Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad) and Roger Allam (The Thick of It).

Both Close to the Enemy and The Missing are distributed internationally by all3media International.