Matthew Macfadyen Signs On To ITV's "A Passage to India"

Baz Bamigboye has announced some of the cast for "A Passage to India", the TV adaptation of E. M. Forster’s 1924 novel about the British Raj in India.

Director Adrian Shergold has also cast Matthew Macfadyen, currently playing Arthur Clennam in the BBC’s excellent serial of Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit, as Richard Fielding...

Shooting begins at the end of January on location in India. The film, expected to be a jewel in ITV’s 2009 crown, will be broadcast next autumn.

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