Julia Roberts to narrate new BBC comedy drama series
Hollywood star Julia Roberts will narrate a new BBC series, the broadcaster has announced.
Roberts, 57, who is best known for starring in Pretty Woman, Notting Hill and the Oscar-award winning biopic Erin Brockovich, has joined the cast for the six-part comedy drama series, Leonard And Hungry Paul.
The series is based on Ronan Hession’s best-selling novel of the same name and will star Departure actor Alex Lawther, Fool Me Once’s Laurie Kynaston and Derry Girls star Jamie-Lee O’Donnell.
Produced for BBC Northern Ireland by the Irish production company Subotica, Leonard And Hungry Paul will be available to watch later this autumn on BBC One Northern Ireland, BBC Two and iPlayer.
The show follows two board-gaming friends in their 30s, Leonard, played by Lawther, and Hungry Paul, played by Kynaston, whose quiet and ordinary lives are disrupted by an unexpected death, family wedding and tentative new romance.
Tristan Orpen Lynch, executive pro...
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