With filming underway for series eight of FOYLE’S WAR, Acorn Media has confrimed that Two-time Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee John Mahoney (FRAISER) will star. Mahoney appears, along with regulars Michael Kitchen (Christopher Foyle), Honeysuckle Weeks (Samantha Stewart), Daniel Weyman (Adam Wainwright), Ellie Haddington (Hilda Pierce), Tim McMullan (Valentine) and Rupert Vandsittart (Sir Alec Myerson). Series eight will also feature , Richard Lintern (Silent Witness), Nigel Lindsay (Four Lions), Jaime Winstone (Mad Dogs) and William Postlethwaite (Midsomer Murders, Suspicions of Mr Whicher).
With each episode scripted by Anthony Horowitz the stories will explore the world of the American and German businesses that were accused of fuelling Hitler’s War Machine and will reflect on the tangled web of promises to the Jews to create a state of Israel in British Palestine. The major blight of post war Britain, the Black Market, will be focused on as will some of the darkest secrets from operations conducted by the British Special Operations Executive during WWII.
Series eight will debut in 2015.