The BBC has confirmed an all-star solid for its newest drama from Hugo Blick.
Deadline introduced you information that Invoice Nighy was in talks for Clifftops again in February and the BBC has confirmed the present, now titled California Avenue, will star Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Burke and Erin Doherty, the latter of whom is recent off the again of the runaway success of Netflix’s Adolescence.
California Avenue is about in a secluded canal-side caravan park deep within the luscious English countryside, the place its peace is irrevocably disrupted by the arrival of Lela (Doherty) and her 11-year-old little one, each on the run, on the lookout for refuge on this hidden world. It’s right here {that a} fractured household will come collectively, ghosts and demons will firmly be put to relaxation and an sudden love is cast. Nighy and Bonham Carter star as Jerry and Eddie, Lela’s dad and mom, whereas Burke is showman outcast, Cooper.
The sequence is the newest collaboration between Blick, Drama Republic, Eight Rooks and the BBC following The English, The Honourable Lady and Black Earth Rising.
Blick stated: “Over the previous few many years, whether or not by comedy, political dramas or perhaps a western, I’ve regarded to discover what tv fiction could be. California Avenue is an exploration of the individuals who impressed me to wish to do that.”
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, added: “Hugo Blick has given us a few of the most interesting tv of the previous three many years and it’s an honour to hitch forces with him alongside Invoice, Helena, Erin, Tom and Drama Republic to take BBC viewers on the journey of a lifetime to Nineteen Seventies California Avenue.”
California Avenue (6×60) is produced by Colin Wratten (The English, Lockerbie: A Seek for Fact), and the manager producers are Blick for Eight Rooks, Greg Brenman for Drama Republic, Nighy, Bonham Carter, and Lucy Richer for the BBC. The sequence is produced by Drama Republic. Mediawan Rights and Entourage Media will distribute the sequence internationally.
