The BBC has published first look pictures for four-part docu-drama Titanic Sinks Tonight, produced by Stellify Media for BBC Factual and BBC Northern Ireland.
The docu-drama was filmed in Northern Ireland using the recently launched £70m virtual production facility at Studio Ulster, with support from Northern Ireland Screen.
The story relives the Titanic story through the experiences and personal testimony of the passengers and crew who were there. When she left Belfast in April, 1912, Titanic was the most famous ship in the world. Four days into her maiden voyage, the ‘unsinkable ship’ hit an iceberg in the icy waters of the Atlantic.
From the seconds before the ship hit the iceberg, to the final moments when the hull sank beneath the waves, the new series Titanic Sinks Tonight pieces together the events, minute by minute, to reveal exactly what happened to the 2,208 passengers and crew on the night of April 14.
Unearthed from a vast archive of eyewitness testimony, including letters, telegrams, media interviews, memoirs and the US and UK public enquiries into the disaster, the cast of actors portray vivid first-hand accounts that will put viewers ‘in the moment’, revealing what individuals all around the ship saw, felt and did that night.
There is also analysis from a range of contributors including ex-marine JJ Chalmers, historian Professor Suzannah Lipscomb, Admiral Lord West, and authors Nadifa Mohamed and Jeanette Winterson.
The series was commissioned by Jack Bootle, Head of Commissioning, Specialist Factual and Eddie Doyle, Head of Content Commissioning, BBC Northern Ireland. Fiona Keane is the Executive Producer for BBC Northern Ireland and Simon Young is the Commissioning Editor for BBC Factual.
Kieran Doherty and Matthew Worthy are Executive Producers for Stellify Media, a Sony Pictures Television (SPT) company. International funding from the series is being provided by SPT, ARTE and SBS (Australia). Sony Pictures Television is handling international sales for the series.
Vicky Allen as first class stewardess Violet Jessop
Rhys Mannion as first class passenger Jack Thayer
Pippa Considine
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