Titanic TV series cast headed by Linus Roache and Geraldine Somerville
Four-part ITV drama, scripted by Julian Fellowes, will be screened in 2012 to coincide with centenary of disaster
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Tourists look at one of the exhibits in a Titanic exhibition in Belfast. Julian Fellowes is scripting a TV series about the 'unsinkable' ship for ITV. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA
Linus Roache and Geraldine Somerville are to head the cast of Julian Fellowes's dramatisation of the Titanic story.
Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey, is scripting a series to be screened by ITV next year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the "unsinkable" ship's disastrous maiden voyage.
Roache, who has appeared in US series Law & Order and films such as Batman Begins, recently appeared in Coronation Street alongside his father William Roache (Ken Barlow). Somerville is known for her role in the Harry Potter films , playing the young wizard's mother Lily, as well as appearing in BBC1's Survivors.
The cast for the four-part series also includes Celia Imrie, Toby Jones and Perdita Weeks. It begins filming in Hungary later this month, made by Bafta-winning producer Nigel Stafford Clark, whose successes have included Bleak House and Warriors.
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