Anna Friel, David Threlfall and Anna Maxwell Martin are among the many forged of an upcoming BBC single drama about grooming and sexual abuse from Time author Jimmy McGovern.
Set and filmed in Liverpool, the currently-unnamed drama, per the synoposis, “centres across the Mitchell household, who’re coping with the devastating aftermath of an act of abuse, and the data that it was perpetrated by a member of their very own household who, after serving his sentence, has simply been launched from jail.”
Friel (Marcella, Pushing Daisies), who was BAFTA-nominated for her work in Jimmy McGovern’s Damaged, leads the forged alongside Maxwell Martin (Motherland, A Spy Amongst Buddies, Poppy Shakespeare), BAFTA-winner Threlfall (Nightsleeper, Shameless, Housewife 49), Bobby Schofield (Time, Anne, SAS Rogue Heroes), BAFTA-winner and Mark Womack (The Responder, Enjoying the Subject, Shifting On). Additional casting will probably be introduced sooner or later.
McGovern’s LA Productions is making the drama, which will probably be for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Julia Ford (Showtrial, The Bay, Protected). McGovern is writing and govt producing alongside Colin McKeown for LA Productions, and Nawfal Faizullah and Katherine Bond for the BBC.
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, stated: “Jimmy McGovern is one in every of our best dramatists, and a grasp at writing about at present’s world. His new movie sensitively examines the ache of abuse and the way it impacts not solely the sufferer however ripples out throughout the entire household. To see it dropped at the display with such a excessive calibre forged and inventive group is additional testomony to the standard of Jimmy’s writing.”
McGovern added: “I can’t imagine the forged and crew which were assembled for this manufacturing. It’s a difficult movie, sure, however I can’t look ahead to it to be proven.”
