Timothy Spall joins cast of Sky Living's spooky The Enfield Haunting

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Timothy Spall has signed up for new supernatural drama series The Enfield Haunting.

The programme is based on Guy Lyon Playfair's book, This House Is Haunted, which he wrote after researching claims of poltergeist activity in a house in Enfield in 1977.

Timothy will play a rookie paranormal researcher who is investigating the strange goings on, reported RadioTimes.com.

The Blandings actor said he was thrilled to be part of the Sky Living drama, adding: "Not only is it based on a supernatural happening, it is also a brilliant script that is full of emotional texture and develops beautifully into a human story."

Matthew Macfadyen and Juliet Stevenson will also star in the three-part drama, with Matthew playing author Guy Lyon Playfair and Juliet as the wife of Timothy's character.

The Enfield Haunting will be directed by The Killing's Kristoffer Nyholm.

It's expected to be broadcast on next year.

 

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.