Gambon to star in Rowling TV series

‘Harry Potter’ star Michael Gambon has signed up for another JK Rowling adaptation after he was cast in the small-screen adaptation of her novel ‘The Casual Vacancy’.

The book, her first after the series about the schoolboy wizard, opens with the death of a parish councillor and is based around a local council election in a town which appears to be an English idyll but is at war with itself.