The sixth series, starring Lee Mack and Sally Breton, is due to air on 5 April.

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The actors in the top four, including Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field, have each won at least one Oscar before.

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The cast, uniformly superb, includes Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Hal Holbrook as Lincoln adviser Preston Blair, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn as William Seward and James Spader as political operative W.N.

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