Now TV & Sky Atlantic Set November Premieres For Foreign Language Dramas ‘My Brilliant Friend’ & ‘Das Boot’
Now TV will have two new foreign language mini-series arriving this November, as HBO’s ‘My Brilliant Friend‘ and Sky Original Production, ‘Das Boot‘, both get UK premiere dates.
‘Das Boot’ is based on the critically acclaimed movie of the same name, and will pick up in the fall of 1942, just months after the Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 film ends. The drama focuses on both a fictional German U-boat crew and the French resistance trying to disrupt their activities. These two narratives will focus on the upcoming Resistance in La Rochelle and the claustrophobic life aboard U-612.
The high-end drama stars Tom Wlaschiha (‘Game of Thrones’), Lizzy Caplan (‘Masters of Sex’), Rick Okon (‘Tatort’), Vicky Krieps (‘Phantom Thread’), August Wittgenstein (‘The Crown’), Rainer Bock (‘Inglourious Basterds’), Leonard Scheicher (‘Finsterworld’), Robert Stadlober (‘Summer Storm’) and Franz Dinda (‘Babylon Berlin’). The mini-series is a co-production of Bavaria Fiction, Sky Germany and Sonar Entertainment.
‘Das Boot‘ premieres, Friday, 23rd November 2018 at 9pm on Now TV and Sky Atlantic. All episodes will also be available from the 23rd on Now TV and Sky On Demand.
In a last minute change, Sky Atlantic has bumped ‘Das Boot‘ to a “later date”. We’ll update the UK TV air dates page when we have a new premiere day/time.
‘My Brilliant Friend’ is HBO’s first foreign language mini-series, and is based on Elena Ferrante’s bestselling book of the
same name. Set in a dangerous and fascinating Naples, the story follows the lives of two girls over six decades of their friendship. After receiving a phone call, Elena Greco discovers the most important and significant figure in her life, Raffaella “Lila” Cerullo, has gone missing.
Knowing this disappearance has been a long time coming, Elena, now a writer, finally sits down to put the story of their intertwining lives on paper, starting from the 1950s where the two first met at school, in an attempt to describe the mystery of Lila – her brilliant friend, and in a way, worst enemy.
‘My Brilliant Friend‘ gets it’s UK premiere from Monday, 19th November 2018 at 9pm on Now TV and Sky Atlantic.
