Channel 4 announces casting for role of Boris Johnson in Partygate drama

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Lovibond and Henley will play a pair of fictional special advisers in the series, which Channel 4 said “will feature dramatic re-enactments of boozy parties in Downing Street interwoven with archive news footage and documentary interviews as the British public faced the pandemic”. In a press release announcing the cast, the channel said the series will “juxtapose the revelry inside the nation’s seat of power with the hardship and sacrifice being experienced across the rest of the country”. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 days New subscribers only. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Ophelia Lovibond will be in a brand new Partygate series The year before, Jack Thiorne wrote the acclaimed Help, starring Jodie comer and Stephen Graham, which followed caregivers and patients at a Liverpool care home during the first Covid lockdown.