Various Sources – 25th July, 2012

REG is to star in a new Channel 4 drama about the criminal underworld set in Brighton.

The cast of The Fear will be headed by Peter Mullan – who won acclaim in the movie Tyrannosaur – playing a crime boss-turned-entrepreneur.

The four-part series also sees former EastEnders actor Paul Nicholls and Harry Lloyd – who appeared in the acclaimed BBC adaptation of Great Expectations – playing his sons.

Mullan portrays Richie Beckett whose past in the crime world is masked by a new-found respectability as he tries to revamp the city’s West Pier . But his world is thrown into turmoil due to the impact of the Albanian mafia and aggressive early-onset dementia.

Grant plays a plastic surgeon Seb, who himself has a dark past which is intertwined with his new ex-crime lord boss Richie Beckett’s affairs and his wife Jo (Anastasia Hille).

The hour-long episodes were written by Richard Cottan, who worked on BBC crime drama Wallander, and will be filmed around Brighton.