August 2023
THE GOLD is inspired by the real-life events that took place on November 26, 1983, when six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. According to detectives, what started as a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery became a seminal event in British criminal history that’s remarkable not only for the scale of the theft – at the time the biggest in world history – but for its wider legacy. The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering; provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom; united blue- and white-collar criminals; and left controversy and murder in its wake.
Created and written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt), THE GOLD stars Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington 1 and 2), alongside Dominic Cooper (The Preacher, The Devil’s Double), Jack Lowden (Small Axe: Mangrove, Slow Horses), Charlotte Spencer (The Duke, Cinderella), Tom Cullen (Becoming Elizabeth, Black Mirror), Emun Elliott (Guilt, Old), Sean Harris (Southcliffe, Mission: Impossible), Ellora Torchia (Ali and Ava, Midsommar), Stefanie Martini (Prime Suspect, The Last Kingdom), Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzie, Lovesick) and Adam Nagaitis (Red Rose, Chernobyl). Co-produced by Tannadice Pictures, an Objective Fiction partner, and Paramount Television International Studios, THE GOLD provides a pulsating dramatization of this extraordinary and epic story for the first time. THE GOLD is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution outside of the Paramount+ markets.
THE GOLD first premiered in the UK on the BBC, where it received widespread acclaim and became one of the UK’s biggest new dramas of the year so far.
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The series will debut in the U.S. on Sunday, September 17, with two episodes. Following premiere, new episodes will be available to stream weekly on Sundays, exclusively on Paramount+. |
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Drama |
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STARRING: |
Hugh Bonneville |
(Brian Boyce) |
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Jack Lowden |
(Kenny Noye) |
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Dominic Cooper |
(Edwyn Cooper) |
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Charlotte Spencer |
(Nikki Jennings) |
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Tom Cullen |
(John Palmer) |
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Emun Elliott |
(Tony Brightwell) |
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Sean Harris |
(Gordon Parry) |
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Ellora Torchia |
(Sienna Rose) |
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Stefanie Martini |
(Marnie Palmer) |
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Daniel Ings |
(Archie Osborne) |
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Adam Nagaitis |
(Micky McAvoy) |
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CREATOR: |
Neil Forsyth |
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For press information and photos, visit: https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/paramount-plus/shows/the-gold/ |
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