Anna Friel signs up for World War II drama series

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Anna Friel has signed up to the cast of The Heavy Water War, a TV series on a similar theme to Danny Boyle's upcoming Telemark.

Both series will look at the part Norway played in World War II and The Heavy Water War will concentrate on a 1943 raid on a Norwegian factory plant to stop production of heavy water for a Nazi atomic bomb.

According to Deadline, Anna has joined th series which will be directed by Norway's Per-Olav Sorensen and will feature Norwegian actors Espen Kloumann Hoiner and Dennis Storhoi and German actor Christoph Bach, as well as Pip Torrens.

Telemark, helmed by Danny Boyle, concentrates on the British-trained Norwegian resistance fighters who sabotaged Hitler's nuclear development and as yet has not cast the lead roles.

Patrick McLennan
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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

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