Lockerbie (TV serial)

This article is about the BBC TV drama. For the Sky Television drama, see Lockerbie: A Search for Truth.

Lockerbie is an upcoming British television drama series starring Connor Swindells, Merritt Wever and Patrick J. Adams. It is about the 1988 flight disaster of Pan Am Flight 103 which was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom.

Lockerbie
Genre	Drama
Written by	Michael Keillor
Screenplay by	Jonathan Lee Gillian Roger Park
Starring	Connor Swindells Merritt Wever Patrick J. Adams Eddie Marsan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer	Julia Stannard
Production companies	World Productions Toluca Pictures BBC Night Train Media MGM Television
Original release
Network	BBC One (UK) Netflix (worldwide)

Premise

Lockerbie will focus on the two investigations by the British and American governments into the bombing carried out on Pan Am Flight 103 and the subsequent explosion over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988.^[1]

Cast

• Connor Swindells
• Eddie Marsan
• Peter Mullan
• Lauren Lyle
• Phyllis Logan
• Tony Curran
• Patrick J. Adams
• Merritt Wever
• James Anderson
• Dominik Tiefenthaler
• Julian Callejja (Maltese Actor)
• Larry Gurreri
• James Harkness
• Andrew Rothney
• Parker Sawyers
• Khalid Laith
• Amanda Drew
• Joe Layton
• Dana Haqjoo

Production

The series was commissioned in July 2023 by BBC One and Netflix.^[2] It was developed by MGM Television and Night Train Media alongside filmmaker Adam Morane-Griffiths, who had brought the project to them, alongside Sara Curran, in 2020.^[3] It is written by Jonathan Lee and Gillian Roger Park, while Michael Keillor directs.^[4] Park was born on the west coast of Scotland four days after the disaster, and she told Deadline Hollywood that “The Lockerbie bombing hangs over Scottish culture very heavily. I felt the weight of that. This was a job that I really wanted to do and it’s a real honor to be asked. It’s a precious story."^[5]

The series is produced by World Productions, in association with MGM Television and Night Train Media with Julia Stannard as producer. Filming started in Scotland in early 2023, with filming locations also including Malta and Canada.^[6]

In March 2024, Patrick J. Adams, Connor Swindells, Merritt Wever were confirmed in the lead cast as well as Eddie Marsan, Lauren Lyle, Phyllis Logan and Peter Mullan.^[7]

Broadcast

The six-part series is set to air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer before heading to Netflix globally.^[8]