Exclusive: Grantchester and Greyhound star Tom Brittney’s Wild Nest Pictures is teaming up with Trevor Birney’s Belfast-based production company Fine Point Films (Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God) to develop a TV drama based on the controversial 2018 arrests of Birney and fellow Northern Irish journalist Barry McCaffrey.
The two men had investigated the unsolved massacre of six innocent men by Loyalist paramilitaries at a small rural pub in the village of Loughinisland in 1994.
The drama will follow the events of 2012, when McCaffery and Birney were working with Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney (Enron) and Fine Point Films on No Stone Unturned, a documentary based on the massacre, when they anonymously received unredacted police files that would help them prove collusion between the police and the killers. After the release of the film, McCaffery and Birney were arrested in an unlawful police operation for alleged theft of...
The two men had investigated the unsolved massacre of six innocent men by Loyalist paramilitaries at a small rural pub in the village of Loughinisland in 1994.
The drama will follow the events of 2012, when McCaffery and Birney were working with Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney (Enron) and Fine Point Films on No Stone Unturned, a documentary based on the massacre, when they anonymously received unredacted police files that would help them prove collusion between the police and the killers. After the release of the film, McCaffery and Birney were arrested in an unlawful police operation for alleged theft of...
- 1/12/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Refresh for updates on coverage. NBC News and MSNBC will broadcast special coverage of events honoring President George H.W. Bush starting December 3 as his body arrives to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
Today‘s Savannah Guthrie and NBC Nightly News‘ Lester Holt will lead coverage of the 41st president’s memorial service from Washington National Cathedral December 5 while Brian Williams will be at MSNBC leading coverage of the memorial service alongside Chris Matthews from Hardball and Nicole Wallace host of Deadline: White House.
Additional coverage and analysis will be provided by NBC political director Chuck Todd of Meet the Press; NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, and NBC News senior correspondent Tom Brokaw. Other correspondents and reporters include Peter Alexander, Geoff Bennett, Tom Costello, Gabe Gutierrez, Garrett Haake, Kasie Hunt, Hallie Jackson, Tammy Leitner, Craig Melvin, Hans Nichols, Kelly O’Donnell, Kerry Sanders,...
Today‘s Savannah Guthrie and NBC Nightly News‘ Lester Holt will lead coverage of the 41st president’s memorial service from Washington National Cathedral December 5 while Brian Williams will be at MSNBC leading coverage of the memorial service alongside Chris Matthews from Hardball and Nicole Wallace host of Deadline: White House.
Additional coverage and analysis will be provided by NBC political director Chuck Todd of Meet the Press; NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, and NBC News senior correspondent Tom Brokaw. Other correspondents and reporters include Peter Alexander, Geoff Bennett, Tom Costello, Gabe Gutierrez, Garrett Haake, Kasie Hunt, Hallie Jackson, Tammy Leitner, Craig Melvin, Hans Nichols, Kelly O’Donnell, Kerry Sanders,...
- 12/3/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (Vvmf) is commemorating the 35th anniversary of The Wall in 2017 and an esteemed group of Americans, led by The Honorable Chuck Hagel, 24th Secretary of Defense and Vietnam veteran, have come together to form the 35th Anniversary of The Wall committee to help commemorate this milestone.
Vvmf will host a series of events in Washington, D.C. in the week leading up to Veterans Day in November to honor and remember the service and sacrifice of those who served in Vietnam and their families.
“The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the perfect tribute and a fitting reminder of that divisive war and its enormous human cost to our country,” said American entrepreneur, philanthropist and Vietnam veteran Bob Parsons. “Many of us who served in Vietnam and made it back received either a rude or no reception. Be that as it may, our 58,000 plus brothers and sisters...
Vvmf will host a series of events in Washington, D.C. in the week leading up to Veterans Day in November to honor and remember the service and sacrifice of those who served in Vietnam and their families.
“The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the perfect tribute and a fitting reminder of that divisive war and its enormous human cost to our country,” said American entrepreneur, philanthropist and Vietnam veteran Bob Parsons. “Many of us who served in Vietnam and made it back received either a rude or no reception. Be that as it may, our 58,000 plus brothers and sisters...
- 10/6/2017
- Look to the Stars
Actor and Navy brat Lou Diamond Phillips will mix movies and military history for Military's "An Officer and a Movie" this summer, as he interviews active-duty and retired military officers and plays films ranging from "Das Boot" to "The Alamo." Military announced its full summer slate for the movie series, which will air on Saturday nights. Phillips will introduce the films and interview veterans including Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, a former Army Ranger and paratrooper, about military life. Phillips, currently starring in A&E's "Longmire," will also talk to General Barry McCaffrey,...
- 6/6/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
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