Synopsis: The Gold is inspired by the real-life events that took place on November 26, 1983, when six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. According to detectives, what started as a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery became a seminal event in British criminal history that’s remarkable not only for the scale of the theft – at the time the biggest in world history – but for its wider legacy. The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering; provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom; united blue- and white-collar criminals; and left controversy and murder in its wake.  (Courtesy Paramount+, 2023)

The Cast:
Hugh Bonneville as Bryan Boyce
Dominic Cooper as Edwyn Cooper
Jack Lowden as Kenneth Noye 
Charlotte Spencer
Tom Cullen as John Palmer
Emun Elliott
Sean Harris as Gordon Perry
Lily Knight as Jackie McAvoy
Ellora Torchia
Stefanie Martini as Marnie Palmer
Daniel Ings
Adam Nagaitis as Micky McAvoy
Josef Altin as Robert White
Dorothy Atkinson as Jeannie Savage

Production Credits:
Created and written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt). Co-produced by Tannadice Pictures, an Objective Fiction partner, and Paramount Television International Studios, The Gold provides a pulsating dramatization of this extraordinary and epic story for the first time. The Gold is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution outside of the Paramount+ markets.

The Episodes:
1-01 To Be A King--09/17/2023

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