'I think I've been working on Time since the 1980s because from about 1982 onwards, I did a fair bit of work in prisons. I think if you're gonna write about a British prison, that's the kind of things you need - experience, shown in all the lines of those faces.
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I just think they have faces you die for, full of full of life, full of compassion and humanity. 'I did have both Sean Bean and Stephen Graham uppermost in my thoughts all the way through when writing. Writer Jimmy McGovern said of Time: 'The BBC have given me a brilliant young director and two of the greatest actors on the planet.
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(Image credit: BBC) Writer Jimmy McGovern gave us his thoughts on creating Time.īBC1's Time is the creation of BAFTA and Emmy-winning writer Jimmy McGovern, who has also penned major hit series including Cracker, Hillsborough, The Lakes, The Street, Moving On and Accused, which also starred both Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. Sean Bean's Mark Cobden is serving time with Jack McMullen's Daniel. you may also remember Jack in BBC football comedy The First Team. Jack McMullen, who was Finn Sharkey in Waterloo Road and also starred in Little Boy Blue, plays young prisoner Daniel who'd killed someone during a fight. Meanwhile, behind bars, ruthless prisoner Pete is played by Kadiff Kirwan ( Timewasters, Chewing Gum), and Michael Socha has a pivotal role too. Look out too for Siobhan Finneran ( Happy Valley and Benidorm) as Marie-Louise, who works in the prison chaplaincy team and helps prisoners with their rehabilitation.ĭunkirk star Aneurin Barnard (who recently played murdered brewery boss Jack Evans in The Pact) is Mark's disturbed cellmate Bernard and Small Axe star Nadine Marshall plays Mark's estranged wife Alicia - they have a teen son together.Įric McNally's son David is played by Paddy Rowan, best known for portraying Sean Mercer in ITV drama Little Boy Blue. The Royle Family star Sue Johnston appears in Time as Mark’s concerned mum June, while The World is Not Enough actor David Calder plays Mark's father. (Image credit: BBC) Who else is starring in Time? You’ve got a real cauldron of emotions and violence and it’s every man for himself…’
‘ Time is about lots of different facets of being imprisoned and guilt, suffering and inequality. ‘He takes on all the responsibility and all the guilt because that's what he believes he should do. ‘It’s a thing he can never atone for,’ says Sean. To make matters worse, Mark, who’s estranged from wife Alicia (Nadine Marshall), misses his teenage son terribly, and is plagued with remorse about the crime he’s committed. But he suddenly finds himself taken to prison and locked up among a frightening bunch of people who are all going through their own suffering, mayhem and paranoia.' ‘Mark has had an uninteresting, normal life where nothing much happens. Sean says: ‘ Time tells you what it’s like for a regular guy to be imprisoned, and the nightmare that is,’ he says. But prison proves a terrible shock to Mark and life quickly becomes unbearable when he finds himself incarcerated alongside aggressive and disturbed fellow inmates. Sean Bean plays mild-mannered teacher Mark Cobden who is brought to Craigmore Prison to start a four-year sentence for accidentally killing a man. Of course, I am made up to be back on set with Sean.” I’m excited to be working with Lewis as I have heard so many incredible things about him as a director, I can’t wait to get stuck in. Stephen Graham, who'd starred in the same Accused episode as Sean Bean, reveals: “It's an absolute honour to be working with Jimmy McGovern again, I’m feeling blessed. Mark Cobden is another of Jimmy’s complex and superbly-written characters and I'm looking forward to bringing him to life on screen.” Sean Bean, who starred in the previous Jimmy McGovern drama Accused, says: “Getting involved in a Jimmy McGovern drama again is a real privilege and it's been great to be reunited with Stephen Graham. With both Eric and Mark trapped by their pasts and unsure of their futures, can they find survive and find the strength to move forward?
Separated from his family, Mark is sentenced to four years in jail where he befriends prison officer Eric McNally (Stephen Graham), who does his best to protect the inmates from the dangers of life behind bars.īut when one of the most dangerous prisoners identifies Eric’s softer side as a weakness, Eric faces an impossible choice between his principles and protecting the ones he loves.
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