Shooting starts on Fackham Hall

Damian Lewis and Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton  have joined the cast of Jimmy Carr’s Downton Abbey spoof, Fackham Hall.

The period film – said to be in the vein of Airplane! and Monty Python – has been written by Jimmy Carr and his brother Patrick ask well as the Dawson Brothers, whose credits include  Brian Butterfield’s live tour starring Peter Serafinowicz.

Shooting has started this week in the Wirral, with Variety reporting that Masters Of The Air star Ben Radcliffe has joined the  previously announced Thomasin McKenzie, Katherine Waterston and Emma Laird. 

Radcliffe will play loveable pickpocket Eric Noone, who lands a job at the titular country manor, where he has a forbidden romance with lady of the house Rose Davenport (McKenzie). When an unexpected murder occurs, Eric gets framed — leaving Rose and her family’s future perilously uncertain.

Lewis will play master of the house Lord Davenport while Felton is Archibald, Eric’s main romantic rival

Jimmy Carr, who originated the film, will also have a supporting role. It is being directed by  Jim O’Hanlon, who has previously worked on Catastrophe, Trying and Inside No 9.

Last year O’Hanlon said: ‘Fackham Hall is that rarest of rare hen’s teeth – a genuinely funny, fiendishly clever period comedy which even on the page makes you snort your tea out of several orifices at once, whilst still making you care hugely for the young couple at the centre of all the madness.’

Published: 7 Nov 2024