Peter O'Toole has signed up to play legendary love machine Casanova in a BBC drama.
The 72 year old movie veteran will team up on the small screen with Little Britain star Matt Lucas, who is playing a gay Venetian duke.
Casanova is the brainchild of Queer As Folk and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies, who has described his hero as "an 18th century Jeffrey Archer".
"Casanova was a wonderful, barmy, inventive man", raved Davies. "And what a fraud!"
"He wasn't born an aristocrat, he lied his way into jobs and positions of power with charm and cheek".
Casanova's bed-hopping adventures will be told in flashback, with Peter O'Toole as the ageing Lothario and David Tennant as his younger self.
The show will debut on BBC3 before moving to a terrestrial channel.
Russell T Davies hit headlines by graphically portraying gay sex in Queer As Folk. His Casanova is likely to be just as bawdy.
"Our modern-day impression of a lascivious, misogynist man is hopelessly wrong", he told mediaguardian.co.uk.
"This man genuinely loved women and respected them with an astonishingly modern mentality".
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