The BBC on Thursday unveiled an unique new drama from screenwriter Jimmy McGovern (Time, Cracker, The Road) which can discover “the impression of grooming and sexual abuse on one household.”
Emmy winner Anna Friel (Marcella, Pushing Daisies), who was BAFTA-nominated for her earlier work with Jimmy McGovern in Damaged, leads the solid alongside Bobby Schofield (Time, Anne, SAS Rogue Heroes), BAFTA winner Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland, A Spy Amongst Buddies, Poppy Shakespeare), BAFTA winner David Threlfall (Nightsleeper, Shameless, Housewife 49), and Mark Womack (The Responder, Taking part in the Subject, Shifting On).
Additional casting will likely be unveiled “sooner or later,” the BBC mentioned.
Directed by Julia Ford (Showtrial, The Bay, Protected), the as-yet-untitled 90-minute single drama will likely be made by LA Productions (Damaged, Anthony, Care) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
“Set and filmed in Liverpool, the fictional drama facilities across the Mitchell household who’re coping with the devastating aftermath of an act of abuse, and the information that it was perpetrated by a member of their very own household who, after serving his sentence, has simply been launched from jail,” in accordance with a synopsis.
McGovern mentioned: “I can’t imagine the solid and crew which have been assembled for this manufacturing. It’s a difficult movie, sure, however I can’t watch for it to be proven.”
Added Colin McKeown, government producer for LA Productions: “This can be a profoundly difficult and delicate topic, tackled with intelligence and care by Jimmy McGovern. It’s a privilege to be working with him once more following the success of our earlier collaborations on single dramas: Widespread, Care, Reg and Anthony.”
Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama, mentioned: “Jimmy McGovern is certainly one of our biggest dramatists and a grasp at writing about in the present day’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 high-caliber solid and inventive staff is additional testomony to the standard of Jimmy’s writing.”
The drama will likely be produced by LA Productions and is written by McGovern, directed by Ford, and produced by Donna Molloy. Government producers are McGovern and McKeown for LA Productions, and Nawfal Faizullah and Katherine Bond for the BBC.