Michael Gambon to play Winston Churchill for PBS
In a move designed to accommodate the TV-watching public’s inability to keep track of more than one twinkling-eyed enigmatic British father figure at a time, retired Dumbledore Michael Gambon has been cast as Winston Churchill in an upcoming collaboration between PBS’s Masterpiece and the U.K.’s ITV. Gambon will play the former prime minister in Churchill’s Secret, which isn’t the whimsical, magical mystery you might expect—the series will center on the stroke Churchill suffered in 1953, a condition that was kept secret from the rest of the world.