{"id":777866,"date":"2026-09-21T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777866\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:16:15","slug":"ministry-of-time-adds-adeel-akhtar-ciaran-hinds-eight-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777866\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ministry Of Time’ Adds Adeel Akhtar, Ciaran Hinds & Eight More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBAFTA winner Adeel Akhtar<\/a> (Sherwood) and Academy Award nominee Ciar\u00e1n Hinds (Belfast) have joined the cast of A24<\/a>\u2018s BBC<\/a> drama series Ministry of Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso announced this morning are Hong Chau<\/a> (The Whale), Tamara Lawrance (Get Millie Black), Emily Fairn<\/a> (The Responder), Josh Finan<\/a> (Say Nothing), Aisling Loftus<\/a> (Sherwood), Tawfeek Barhom<\/a> (Cairo Conspiracy) and Nahuel P\u00e9rez Biscayart<\/a> (120 Beats Per Minute) and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Patarot (Paris, Je T\u2019aime).<\/p>\n

\n\tThey join Aoife Hinds<\/a> and Billy Howle<\/a> in the series, which is based on Kaliane Bradley\u2019s debut novel of the same name. Alice Birch (Normal People) is adapting the show, with Aneil Karia (Top Boy) is lead director on the six-part series, which is produced by Beef and Dreaming Whilst Black maker A24 for BBC iPlayer and BBC One.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show follows the professional friendship between Sophy (Hinds) and Graham (Howle), which \u201cdevelops into an intense forbidden romance that reveals the transporting power of love across centuries, just as the sinister nature of the Ministry\u2019s true intentions increasingly puts them in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAkhtar will play Quentin Ackerly, Sophy\u2019s \u2018handler\u2019 at The Ministry, and while Aoife Hinds\u2019 her real-life dad Ciar\u00e1n will be Sophy\u2019s father, Peter, with her mother, Patarot playing her on-screen mom Channary. <\/p>\n

\n\tHong will play Adela, the Vice-Secretary of Expatriation; Lawrance is Simellia, a \u2018bridge\u2019 alongside Sophy; Fairn will one of Commander Gore\u2019s fellow \u2018expats\u2019, Margaret Kemble; Finan plays Captain Arthur Reginald-Smyth and Aisling Loftus is Anne Spencer. Barhom and P\u00e9rez Biscayart also star as the elusive Brigadier and Salese.<\/p>\n

\n\tFilming on the six-part show is currently taking place in and around London, UK. A24 is executive producing alongside Birch, Bradley, Karia and Jo McClellan for the BBC. Frances du Pille is the producer and A24 has international distribution rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAFTA winner Adeel Akhtar (Sherwood) and Academy Award nominee Ciar\u00e1n Hinds (Belfast) have joined the cast of A24\u2018s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36317,256415,256416,256417,243,256418,129228,256419,96,256420,127322,256421,256422,256423,256424,256425,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-a24","tag-adeel-akhtar","tag-aisling-loftus","tag-aoife-hinds","tag-bbc","tag-billy-howle","tag-ciaran-hinds","tag-emily-fairn","tag-entertainment","tag-helene-patarot","tag-hong-chau","tag-josh-finan","tag-ministry-of-time","tag-nahuel-pu00e9rez-biscayart","tag-tamara-lawrence","tag-tawfeek-barhom","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}