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Posted: Fri., Apr. 13, 2007, 7:35am PT

O'Toole, Neill board 'Iron Road'

Alchemy reps miniseries

LONDON — Peter O'Toole and Sam Neill will star in "Iron Road," an $18 million budgeted television miniseries about the building of the North American transcontinental railroad.

The romantic action-adventure sees a poor Chinese girl working on the railroads become romantically entwined with the son of a Yankie railroad tycoon.

"Iron Road" is produced by Mainland Productions and Iron Road Productions, in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and with the participation of the COGECO Program Development Fund. Further coin came from Shaw Rocket Fund and the Canadian Television Fund.

London-based Alchemy Television is distributing in all territories other than China and Canada.


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