Radio / Television News

Super Channel picks up two UK dramas


EDMONTON – While still under court protection from its creditors, Super Channel has acquired two UK dramas from all3media International. Close to the Enemy (pictured) is a seven-part series set mainly in a bomb-damaged London hotel in the aftermath of the Second World War.  Written and directed by award-winning Stephen Poliakoff (Dancing on the Edge, Glorious 39, Gideon’s Daughter) and produced by Helen Flint (Longford, The Take, Galavant), the series follows intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson (Jim Sturgess) whose last task for the Army is to ensure that captured German scientist Dieter (August Diehl) works for the British RAF on urgently developing...