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If police drama remains the bedrock of British Idiot box commissions, with new criminal offence series Karen Pirie , Marlow , Magpie Murders , The Responder , Sherwood and more than on their mode, and then a glittering seam of fantasy and horror is also pleasingly visible. 2022 volition welcome a host of supernatural and sci-fi serial, from Neil Gaiman adaptation Anansi Boys , to Joe Barton's sci-fi action-thriller The Lazarus Projection , BBC 3 teen horror Red Rose , Heaven nighttime comedy The Baby , Netflix superhero serial Supacell , and a new telling of John Wyndham's spooky children classic The Midwich Cuckoos . Streamer Netflix likewise has adaptations of YA fantasies Cuckoo Song , One-half Bad and Lock wood & Co , plus a supernatural murder-mystery in The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and a new take on the Greek myths in Charlie Covell's Kaos .
There'due south room for romance and comedy also, from Netflix's Heartstopper graphic novel adaptation, to Conversations with Friends – a new Sally Rooney accommodation following lockdown hitting Normal People and One Day . Look out for Ten Percent , the English language-language adaptation of French hit Call My Agent , from the creator of Xx Twelve and W1A. All that, plus Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, Tom Hiddleston every bit a scandalous politician, and new writing from Jack Thorne, Steven Moffat, Russell T. Davies, Steven Knight, Gwyneth Hughes, Abi Morgan, as well as a host of new voices.
Nosotros'll keep this list updated equally air dates and new commissions are announced.
Anansi Boys (tbc)
Following on the heels of Good Omens ' surprise second series renewal by Amazon Prime number Video came the announcement that the same squad were to adjust Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys novel into a television series. It's the story of Fatty Charlie Nancy and his slippery brother Spider, sons of Mr Nancy, the folkloric spider god and trickster famed in West African and Caribbean mythology. Malachi Kirby and Delroy Lindo have been bandage as Charlie and Anansi, with Whoopi Goldberg in the office of Bird Woman. Filming started in November 2021.
Anne (January)
World Productions, the makers of some of the best British drama around ( Line Of Duty , Salvage Me , Jed Mercurio drama Bodyguard ) are behind this iv-part drama for ITV. Written by novelist Kevin Sampson, who was present at Hillsborough Stadium on the tragic twenty-four hour period that ninety-six football fans died, the series tells the real-life story of Anne Williams' decades-long fight for justice for her teenage son and all the victims of the 1989 disaster. Maxine Peake stars in the lead role and Bruce Goodison directs.
A Spy Among Friends (tbc)
Based on Ben McIntyre'due south best-selling book, this Great britain-U.s.a. co-production stars Damien Lewis and Guy Pearce every bit 2 spies and lifelong friends whose relationship is marked by betrayal at the height of the Cold War. Filming began in October 2022 and stretches from London to Romania. We can await to encounter the series on streamer Britbox in the UK and on Spectrum in the The states in fall 2022. Adrian Edmondson and Anna Maxwell-Martin co-star.
A Town Called Malice (2023)
We're looking to the horizon here, with a 2023 Sky Original drama from Bulletproof and The Sweeney 's Nick Love. A Boondocks Called Malice , with a title inspired by The Jam song of the same proper name, is a law-breaking drama and family unit saga set in the 1980s Costa del Sol, post-obit a criminal family who decamp from London to Spain when some money comes their style, and the police comes sniffing later on them. Information technology'due south a nifty cast, including Jason Flemyng, Dougray Scott, Tahirah Sharif, Jack Rowan, Martha Plimpton and Eliza Butterworth.
All-time Interests (tbc)
Jack Thorne (pictured), the busiest screenwriter in the UK and leader of the writing room on His Dark Materials returns to the BBC with a new original 4-office drama partly inspired by the real-life Charlie Gard instance. It's nearly a immature kid with a life-threatening condition whose medical team judge information technology in her all-time interests that she be immune to dice, a decision her family can't back up and fight every step of the style. The committee was announced in July 2022 just the pandemic delayed filming, which began in March 2022 with Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan in the pb roles.
Blueish Lights (tbc)
From the writers of The Salisbury Poisonings (pictured), this original BBC One drama follows three rookie police officers working nether boggling pressure level in Belfast. They are Grace, a adult female in her 40s who leaves social work to retrain every bit a police officeholder; Annie, who struggles with having to leave her old life behind; and Tommy, who proves disastrously inept at frontline policing. Filming began in Feb 2022 in Belfast on the series, which stars Siân Brooke, Richard Dormer, Nathan Braniff, Katherine Devlin and more.
But When We Dance (tbc)
Directed past Johnny Campbell (of In The Flesh and Dracula fame) and written past Esio Trot 'south Paul Mayhew Archer, this one-off comedy-drama about 2 people with Parkinson's disease was appear in late 2022 and will exist coming to BBC One. Described as a touching and hilarious honey story, it's the story of Tony and Emma, a couple who beginning meet at a dance class for people with Parkinson'southward. It promises to be a witty, centre-felt ninety minutes throwing a low-cal on a much-diagnosed condition in the Great britain.
Champion (tbc)
From Candice Carty-Williams (pictured to a higher place), writer of 2022 striking novel Queenie , comes a series celebrating contemporary Blackness British Music. Champion is the story of a highly personal rap battle between a South London blood brother and sister, quondam rap sensation and ex-con Bosco, and his old PA and younger sis Vita. Which of the Champion siblings will prosper?
Chloe (February)
From Alice Seabright, director of Netflix's Sexual activity Education comes six-part BBC One psychological thriller Chloe . Information technology's the story of Becky, who becomes then obsessed with the death of an estranged friend that she takes on a simulated identity to find out the truthful story. The bandage (pictured above) was announced in Apr 2022 and includes Poldark 's Jack Farthing, The Crown 's Erin Doherty, The Serpent 's Billy Howle and Gangs of London 's Pippa Bennett-Warner. With major spoilers, read our ending theories here.
Conversations with Friends (May)
Following the enormous success of Normal People – the story of young Irish couple Marianne and Connor navigating love, sexual activity, university, class, friendship and mental health – the BBC and Hulu have collaborated on an adaptation of author Sally Rooney'due south debut novel, Conversations with Friends . This one'due south on a similar bent, as the story of a pair of young Irish students who become involved with an glamorous older, married couple. The cast looks excellent likewise, with Joe Alwyn and Jemima Kirke playing Nick and Melissa, newcomer Alison Oliver playing the lead Frances, and Utopia (The states) and Loki 's Sasha Lane every bit Frances' friend Bobbi. It starts on the 15th of May on BBC Three in the UK.
Crossfire (tbc)
Keeley Hawes stars in a three-part BBC One drama that tells the story of a brutal attack on a luxurious holiday resort in the Canary Islands. The miniseries is described as a boom-biting thriller virtually people forced to brand monumental split-2d life or death decisions, and the long-lasting consequences of their choices. Josette Simon, Anneika Rose, Lee Ingleby and Daniel Ryan co-star, from a screenplay by Apple tree Yard author Louise Doughty.
Cuckoo Song (tbc)
Based on the acclaimed immature developed novel by author Frances Hardinge ( The Prevarication Tree, Wing By Night ), this six-part fantasy series is coming to Netflix. Among the writers are Dr. Who 'southward Sarah Dollard, Elizabeth is Missing 'south Andrea Gibb and The Innocents ' Corinna Faith. It's the story of two sisters – one man and one a monster – at war with each other, who have to reunite to reverse a supernatural pact gone wrong.
Death Comes equally the Terminate (tbc)
With Agatha Christie adaptation The Pale Equus caballus having completed Sarah Phelps' quintet of adaptations for the BBC in 2020, it's the turn of a different phonation on a very unlike kind of Christie novel. That voice? Vanity Fair and Five Days screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes. And that novel? Expiry Comes As The End , a murder mystery set not in the early 20th century, just in ancient Egypt. The arrival of a new concubine sends ripples through an Egyptian priest's family. Updates have been thin on the basis for this one, and the cast and production details take notwithstanding to be announced.
Englistan (tbc)
Actor, rapper and screenwriter Riz Ahmed (pictured) was announced in 2022 as developing this ambitious nine-role series with BBC Two, but no updates have been released since. Information technology was prepare to be a drama about three generations of a British Pakistani family set over the course of 4 decades. As soon as there's any news on this i, nosotros'll include it hither.
Eric (tbc)
From playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan, creator of The Split up (pictured) comes a tense Netflix thriller about a missing boy in 1980s Manhattan. Eric is the story of the boy's father, a puppeteer on a children's Boob tube show, who finds solace in his friendship with the titular graphic symbol – a monster who lives nether his son'due south bed. Casting and filming details are to be appear.
Everything I Know About Beloved (tbc)
Novelist and journalist Dolly Alderton has turned screenwriter to suit her own memoir Everything I Know About Dearest for the BBC. Described as "a generous, funny, warm-hearted and uplifting Sex & the City for Millennials, information technology's the story of 2 young women Maggie and Birdy, who move to London and have to navigate relationships, apartment-shares, heartache and friendship. Emma Appleton and Bel Powley lead the cast, and filming was completed in December 2021.
Floodlights (tbc)
This one-off feature-length BBC 2 drama tells the existent-life story of former professional football game player Andy Woodward, who courageously went public in 2022 with his feel of sexual abuse by his coach equally a youth player. Woodward'due south testimony helped hundreds of other male survivors of sexual abuse in and outside of the footballing world come forwards. Floodlights is written by Command 's Matt Greenhalgh and directed past Calm With Horses ' Nick Rowland. Shameless and The Last Kingdom actor Gerard Kearns will star, alongside Jonas Armstrong, Morven Christie and Steve Edge.
Four Lives (January)
Previously titled The Barking Murders, Four Lives is a 3-part BBC drama based on existent-life killer Stephen Port, and the aftermath of the four murders he committed. Port raped and murdered four men between 2022 and 2015, using Grindr to attract his victims. Jeff Pope, who previously penned The Moorside and Little Male child Blue , is the writer, with Neil McKay directing. Sheridan Smith and Jamie Winstone volition star alongside Stephen Merchant as Port. The drama was postponed due to the ongoing criminal case, but finally aired on BBC One in January.
Ginger Snaps (tbc)
It's over 20 years since the release of Ginger Snaps , the kickoff in a trilogy of now-cult horror films, and, according to Sid Gentle Films, high time for a live-activity TV accommodation. The darkly comic feminist werewolf movie volition be adapted for a TV co-production by Anna Ssemuyaba, who has previous written for Sky's Guerilla , Channel 4's Adult Textile and ITV's Unsaid Stories , and from by the co-producers of Killing Eve and Orphan Black . Casting and more are still to be appear.
Great Expectations (tbc)
From the writer and product team that brought the states A Christmas Carol starring Guy Pearce comes Steven Knight's second Dickens adaptation for the BBC Great Expectations . This 1 has a similarly starry cast, with Olivia Colman in the role of Miss Havisham (played most recently on screen past Gillian Anderson and Helena Bonham Carter), and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch 'south Fionn Whitehead as Pip, plus Hayley Squires, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashely Thomas, Trystan Gravelle, Owen McDonnell and – joy of joys! – Matt Berry. Lucy Forbes directs.
Half Bad (tbc)
Based on Sally Green's celebrated book trilogy of the same proper name, Half Bad volition be an eight-function ane-hour Netflix fantasy drama. Information technology's near a xvi-year-erstwhile boy who has spent his life surveilled for signs that he may follow in the footsteps of his father – the world's most feared witch. Giri/Haji creator Joe Barton is writing the series, with Andy Serkis amid the producers. We. Tin't. Wait.
Difficult Cell (April)
Comedian-role player-writer Catherine Tate revisits her sketch show days with a new Netflix mockumentary set in a women'south prison house. Tate writes, directs and plays multiple characters in the satirical one-act serial about HMP Woldsley. Inside No. nine 'due south Donna Preston, Poldark 'south Christian Brassington and Holby City 's Lorna Brown co-star.
Heartstopper (April)
Now on Netflix is this eight-part half-hour live-action adaptation of Alice Oseman's cute graphic novel nigh Nick and Charlie, two grammer school boys who fall in honey after they're made to sit together in class 1 twenty-four hour period. Kit Connor and Joe Locke will play the leads in a story that touches on LGBTQ+ lives, mental affliction and much more. Oseman has adapted the volume for screen.
Holding (March)
An Irish gaelic serial this, but coming to ITV in the UK: 4-part drama Holding comes adapted from the best-selling novel by writer and presenter Graham Norton. Directed past actor-director Kathy Burke, it was filmed largely in West Cork and stars Game of Thrones ' Conleth Hill, Derry Girls ' Siobhán McSweeney, The Virtues ' Helen Behan and the brilliant Pauline McLynn of Father Ted and GameFace fame. It's the story of an Irish police sergeant in a remote village who gets his first serious case when man remains are discovered on a local farm.
Hotel Portofino (January)
Six-part catamenia drama Hotel Portofino , which follows the travails of a British family unit who open a hotel on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s, landed on streamer Britbox in Jan. Natashca McElhone, Anna Chancellor, Pasquale Esposito and Mark Umbers star in a story about money, form, politics and family reputation. The series will also air on ITV in 2023.
Inside Homo (tbc)
The latest BBC One drama from former Doctor Who and Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat is a four-office crime thriller entitled Within Homo . The twisting story is about a death row inmate in the US and a woman who's trapped in a cellar under an English language vicarage, whose lives interlink "in the nearly unexpected way". The cast (pictured above) looks excellent and includes plenty of Moffat'southward past collaborators in David Tennant, Dracula's Dolly Wells and Lydia West, and Mr Stanley Tucci.
Kaos (tbc)
Production details are currently thin on the ground for Kaos , which was announced some fourth dimension agone, so went abroad, and is at present being teased over again by Netflix. What we practice know is that it's been created by The End of the F***ing Earth (pictured, above) author Charlie Covell, and will exist an eight-part "darkly funny, contemporary spin on the Greek myths". One to continue an eye out for.
Karen Pirie (tbc)
A new detective is on her mode to ITV in the form of Karen Pirie, the cosmos of novelist Val McDermid who's also the literary source of ITV's popular Wire in the Blood forensic pathology serial. The new crime drama comes adapted from the first in McDermid'southward five-book series The Afar Echo by Harlots and Save Me Too 's Emer Kenny. It's about a immature Scottish detective played past Vigil 'southward Lauren Lyle, who is tasked with reopening cold cases. The first involves the 25-twelvemonth-erstwhile death of a teenager whose unsolved murder has get the subject of a true crime podcast. It's being fabricated by Bodyguard and Line of Duty 'south World Productions.
Life Subsequently Life (April)
Kate Atkinson's 2013 novel Life After Life is a masterpiece of imaginative fiction, so it's no surprise that BBC One snapped up a Goggle box adaptation. Information technology'southward the story of Ursula, a adult female with the extraordinary ability to go on being continually reborn into new and culling versions of her life afterward she dies. Seemingly insignificant changes to people and circumstances set her on new courses every fourth dimension – tin can she alter the class of history? Playwright Bash Doran ( Traitors ) has adapted the novel and filming began in Apr 2022 with a bandage including Sian Clifford, James McArdle and lead Thomasin McKenzie ( Jojo Rabbit, Last Night in Soho ).
Lockwood & Co (tbc)
Attack the Block 's Joe Cornish wrote and directed this Netflix accommodation of Jonathan Stroud's supernatural risk series well-nigh a ghost-hunting detective agency run past two teenage boys and a daughter with psychic powers. It's set in London and filming took place in late 2021.
Magpie Murders (Feb)
One of a slate of original drama commissions for United kingdom streamer Britbox, Anthony Horowitz has adapted for screen his ain murder mystery novel Magpie Murders , the first of the writer's Susan Ryeland series. Lesley Manville plays literary editor Ryeland (Manville), with Spall playing her client's fictional 1950s detective Atticus Pünd. A dream cast for this half dozen-part thriller, which landed on Britbox in Feb.
Marlow (tbc)
Another Britbox commission that shows the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland streamer is serious about making a splash in quality original drama, Marlow will exist an eight-part thriller from Southcliffe and Red Riding 's Tony Grisoni, starring The Crown 's Claire Foy. It's a modern-24-hour interval crime fable based around two warring families "amid the unsettling and indelible landscape of the Thames Estuary," or equally Foy's revenge-seeking character Evie Wyatt calls it, the Edgelands.
Marriage (tbc)
From Stefan Golaszewski, the creator of excellent one-act-dramas Mum and Him & Her , comes iv-part BBC One drama Matrimony . Nicola Walker and Sean Bean will play a couple in a series that's billed to examine "in intimate detail the fears, frustrations and salvation of marriage and the condolement that tin can only exist found in togetherness."
Mood (March)
Nicôle Lecky's one-woman Royal Court stage bear witness Superhoe , renamed Mood for TV, is getting the Fleabag treatment and existence turned into a 6-office BBC 3 serial. It'southward the musical story of a would-exist singer and rapper thrown out of abode who moves in with a immature woman who inducts her into the life of social media influencing and sexual activity work. It started on BBC Iii on March the 1st.
My Proper name is Leon (tbc)
Filming began in March 2022 on a feature-length accommodation of Kit de Waal's novel My Name is Leon for BBC I. It's the 1980s-set story of a nine-year-old biracial boy forced to cope with his mother'due south breakdown. Writer-director Shola Amoo is adapting the screenplay, with Kibwe Tavares directing, and Malachi Kirby and Monica Dolan amid the bandage.
Nolly (tbc)
Before he returns to the showrunner position in Doctor Who , Russell T. Davies is bringing three-part drama Nolly to ITV. It's the existent-life story of player Noele Gordon'south unceremonious sacking from long-running drama Crossroads in 1981. Gordon was famous for playing widow Meg Richardson in the soap for eighteen years, and will be played by Helena Bonham-Carter in this dramatisation.
No Render (Feb)
Filming began in summer 2022 on ITV'south No Return , a Manchester-based four-part drama from Danny Brocklehurst ( The Stranger , Shameless ). It stars Sheridan Smith (pictured higher up) as the female parent of a 16-year-old boy defendant of a serious offense while on a family unit vacation in Turkey. Secrets unfurl as the family unit fights an alien legal organization to free their son and get to the truth.
One Day (tbc)
Information technology's early days for this adaptation of David Nicholls' best-selling novel, which visits its main characters Emma and Dexter on the 15th of July every year over the decades from academy to marriage and across. A film adaptation starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess was released in 2011, to mixed reviews, so this Netflix serial will be some other chance to capture the romance, humor and heartbreak of the original novel. The cast is to exist announced.
Pelting Dogs (tbc)
Inspired by writer Cash Carraway's memoir Skint Estate , this new eight-episode BBC-HBO co-produced drama volition star This State 's Daisy May Cooper as a working class single mum skewering stereotypes and exploring the brutal realities of austerity Britain. Creator Carraway assures viewers that it won't exist "a woeful tale of poverty porn," merely a dear story between a mother who refuses to give in, and her 10-year-old daughter.
Ralph and Katie (tbc)
This six-function half hr is a spin-off from BBC Ane'due south hit family drama The A Discussion , following the married lives of the titular characters, both of whom have Down syndrome. The original series creator Peter Bowker is writing the bear witness, which stars Leon Harrop and Sarah Gordy, alongside new and emerging disabled talent.
Red Rose (tbc)
A gimmicky teen horror series is on its way to BBC Iii and Netflix, written past Michael and Paul Clarkson ( The Haunting Of Hill Business firm , pictured). Red Rosewill exist an eight-part serial about the relationship between teenagers and their online lives. It'southward the story of Rochelle, a Bolton teen who downloads a mysterious app that sets in motion a serial of terrifying events. Ultimately, say the Clarksons, "it'due south the story of friendship told through the prism of a classic horror-thriller." Filming took place in Bolton in September 2021.
Riches (tbc)
From Empire to Succession , the complicated family lives of the super-wealthy are a continued source of fascination on screen. ITV has ordered drama Riches from writer Abby Ajayi to mine that seam. The six-part drama revolves around successful man of affairs Stephen Richards, a specialist in cosmetics for black women, who'south on a winning streak until a dramatic upshot forces his grown-upwardly children from two marriages to gather together and decide what happens next. Deborah Ayorinde and Hugh Quarshie will star.
Ripley (tbc)
Sherlock and Fleabag 'south Andrew Scott will play Tom Ripley in a new TV accommodation of the Patricia Highsmith five-strong novel series for Commencement and Heaven Atlantic. The starting time flavor will restage events as depicted in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr Ripley , when a immature grifter in 1960s New York is hired past a wealthy human to convince his wayward, hedonist son – played by Emma and Animal 'south Johnny Flynn – to return domicile from Italia. Steven Zaillian ( The Night Of, Schindler'south List ) writes and directs, and filming took place in Italy in Oct 2021.
Rules of the Game (January)
This 4-office BBC thriller is themed around sexual politics in thew workplace and stars Maxine Peake (pictured) as the manager of a family run business who discovers a dead body in the role reception. So unfurls a story of celebrated misconduct told by a cast including Alison Steadman, Susan Wokoma and Rakhee Thakrar. It aired on BBC 1 back in January and all episodes are bachelor on BBC iPlayer now.
SAS: Rogue Heroes (tbc)
A major new drama is on its way to BBC 1, from Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders and Taboo . The 6-part drama is based on Ben Macintyre'southwardSAS: Rogue Heroes book, which charts the cosmos of the famed Special Forces unit. Knight has written the adaptation, which will tell a tale "celebrating the glory, action and camaraderie at the heart of this story" while delving into the psychology of the officers and men who formed the SAS in WWII. With real-life events given Knight'south visionary treatment, this ane promises to be a spectacle with real depth. Jack O'Connell and Alfie Allen are amid the cast.
Screw (January)
Inspired past his real-life experience equally a noncombatant prison house worker, writer Rob Williams ( Killing Eve ) brought a six-role prison drama to Aqueduct 4. Spiral promises to evidence "the uncensored, terrifying and ofttimes darkly funny reality of life as a prison house officeholder in an all-male prison in 21st century Uk." The story focuses on veteran officer Leigh, who'south trying to keep her past buried, and mouthy new recruit Rose. The cast includes Nina Sosanya, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell and Stephen Wight, and all episodes are currently available to stream on All4.
Sherwood (tbc)
A six-part crime drama is coming to BBC I from acclaimed playwright James Graham, the author behind Quiz and Brexit: The Uncivil War . Set in post-industrial Nottinghamshire, where the drama was filmed, Sherwood is fictional but inspired in part by real events and tells the story of 2 murders that lead to one of the largest manhunts in British history. Two law officers have to set aside their differences to find the killer, against a socio-political backdrop of customs divisions riven during the 1980s Miners' Strikes. Lesley Manville, David Morrissey and Joanne Froggatt star.
Southwark (tbc)
Announced in late 2021, this 1's early in development so look a petty wait earlier it reaches screens. It's coming to Britbox and inspired by Miranda Kaufmann'south honour-winning historical book Black Tudors . It will exist written past novelist and screenwriter Catherine Johnson and tell the story of Black characters living in England in the 17th century. Set in the 1600s, it volition combine factual and fictional characters and tell the story of a Tudor England rarely seen in other menses dramas.
Supacell (tbc)
Appear in November 2022 is a six-office superhero series coming to Netflix from multi-hypenate artistic Rapman, the writer-director of 2022 characteristic Blueish Story and the 2018 Shiro's Story shorts. Non much is yet known about Supacell , a fantasy drama telling the story of a random grouping of Black people from South London who unexpectedly develop superpowers. We'll bring you casting and more than as it'south announced.
Sweetpea (tbc)
From Kirstie Swain, the screenwriter of Aqueduct four's Pure comes a new viii-function series adapted from C.J. Skuse'due south 2022 novel of the aforementioned proper noun. It's the story of a young adult female who seems unremarkable on the surface and works as an editorial assistant in a British seaside town. Unfulfilled by her job, she turns to darker pursuits outside of work, considering who would ever suspect her? The one-act-drama is coming to Sky Atlantic and no casting has yet been announced. Read our interview with Kirstie Swain about Pure , mental illness in Television set drama and more.
Ten Percent (April)
An English-language accommodation of the hit French comedy-drama following a Parisian talent agency is coming to the Uk, and from the best possible choice of writer – WIA and Twenty Twelve author John Morton. Filming took place in summertime 2022 on the series, which is set to welcome a host of star cameos including Helena Bonham Carter, Kelly Macdonald and Jim Broadbent, all playing satirical versions of themselves. Jack Davenport leads the regular bandage.
The Baby (April)
The Baby is a darkly comic horror for Sky Atlantic. The eight-episode showtime season was co-created by screenwriter Siân Robins-Grace ( Kaos , Sex Education ) and Gangs of London production manager Lucy Gaymer. Information technology's existence billed as a provocative, dark and funny story virtually a woman in her late thirties who's unexpectedly landed with a infant that takes over her world. The cast includes The Duchess ' Michelle de Swarte (pictured), who'll star alongside Amira Ghazalla and Amber Grappy.
The Birth of Daniel F Harris (tbc)
With a similar premise to Sky One'southward Ii Weeks to Alive , but a psychological drama instead of a knockabout comedy, this Channel four drama by Urban Myths' Pete Jackson is the story of a young human being raised in isolation from social club after his female parent's death, by a father who told him the outside world is filled with monsters. When the boy turns eighteen, he enters the world to notice the person responsible for his mother's death. Read more than about information technology here.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton (tbc)
Adjusted by Sara Collins from her own Costa Prize-winning novel of the aforementioned name, The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a four part murder mystery set in Georgian London. Information technology follows the title character, born on a Jamaican slave plantation and transported as a 'gift' by the man who enslaved her to the home of a wealthy London couple who meet a grim fate. Was Frannie really responsible? Or is she being used? Karla-Simone Spence and Sophie Cookson (both pictured) will star alongside Patrick Martins. Filming started in Yorkshire in Baronial 2021.
The Command Room (tbc)
Filming on this BBC One thriller from the producers of Sherlock began in August 2021. Starring Agents of SHIELD 's Iain de Caestecker in the atomic number 82 part, it's the story of an emergency telephone call handler for the Scottish Ambulance Service, who receives a call one night that forces him to brand a devastating decision that will accept broad-reaching reverberations. Joanna Vanderham co-stars.
The Expletive (February)
The minds behind two bully, inventive comedies of recent years – People Just Practise Nil and Murder in Successville – take come together for new Channel 4 sitcom The Curse . A comedy caper gear up in early on 80s London, the series follows a gang of small time crooks who unexpectedly constitute themselves part of one of the biggest gold heists in history, inspired in part by a true story. Allan Mustafa, Steve Stamp, Hugo Chegwin, Emer Kenny and Tom Davis star. Filming on the half-dozen-part comedy began in late summer 2022 and it aired on Channel 4 in Feb. All episodes are currently available to stream on All4.
The Devil's Hour (tbc)
Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine atomic number 82 the cast of a new six-part "mind-bending" Amazon Prime Video thriller from author Tom Moran, produced by Steven Moffat. It's the story of Lucy (Raine) who suffers from terrifying visions every night at precisely the same time (the titular devil's hour), and who becomes entangled with a series of brutal murders. Capaldi plays "a reclusive nomad driven by a murderous obsession", which all sounds like fun.
The Elephant Man (tbc)
The story of Victorian Joseph Merrick was memorably brought to the screen by David Lynch in 1980, and has since been retold on stage (notably starring Bradley Cooper in the atomic number 82 role). This ii-part BBC drama stars Stranger Things ' Charlie Heaton (pictured) and is written by Moorside 'south Neil McKay. The biopic will tell the story of Merrick's life from the start to the end and promises to "explore the man behind the myth". Filming was due to take place in Wales in belatedly 2018, just there's been no news about this one since so it'south a bit of a question marker.
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies (tbc)
In this original half dozen-office BBC One thriller, screenwriters Penelope and Ginny Skinner (pictured above) tell the story of two very unlike women, both of whom are existence bamboozled by the same man. Alice and Caroline have Rob in common, a celebrated ecopreneur who may well exist trying to destroy them both. Inspired to fight against society's glorification of the predator, The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies was deputed in Baronial 2020, so information technology'll exist a little while before we run into it.
The Fuck-It Bucket (tbc)
Coming to Netflix, this is the eight-part story of a 17-yr-old released from a long stint in infirmary who feels every bit though life has passed her past. The years Mia spent being treated for anorexia had cost her a childhood, then she decides the manner to grab up is to tick items off a bucket list. It'southward written by newcomer Ripley Parker, the daughter of role player Thandiwe Newton and managing director Ol Parker. Casting is still to be announced.
The Gallows Pole (tbc)
You're going to want to look out for this one. Director Shane Meadows ( This is England , The Virtues ), whose TV work usually airs on Channel 4, is making his BBC drama debut with an accommodation of Benjamin Myers' acclaimed novel The Gallows Pole . It'south a truthful historical story near Yorkshire legend David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners, who became the biggest fraudsters in British history. Meadows describes himself every bit buzzing nigh making his beginning period drama, produced by Element Pictures. The cast led by Michael Socha, with George McKay, Thomas Turgoose and Tom Burke, promises a existent roster of the all-time young British talent.
The Gold (tbc)
Filming began in April 2022 on this BBC drama about the infamous 1983 Brink's Mat robbery, with a star bandage including Pr eacher 's Dominic Cooper and Paddington 'south Hugh Bonneville, along with Jack Lowden, Charlottle Spencer, Tom Cullen and more. Best of all, information technology'southward written past Guilt creator Neil Forsyth, and if information technology achieves the night laughs, twists and gripping plot of that Scottish thriller, we'll be in for a treat.
The Ipcress File (March)
A new accommodation of Len Deighton's spy thriller came to ITV in March (joining the extant 1965 motion-picture show starring Michael Caine). The Ipcress File stars Gangs of London and Peaky Blinders ' Joe Cole in the lead role of British spy Harry Palmer, who's talked with a top-secret mission in substitution for avoiding a prison sentence. Tom Hollander and Lucy Boynton co-star in this adaptation past Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge.
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe (tbc)
Power, dear, loyalty and politics all come to play in Dan Sefton'southward ( Trust Me ) BBC adaptation of Keith Badman'southward 2010 volume The Final Years Of Marilyn Monroe . Narrowing the time-frame (as the working title suggests) Sefton's drama volition take in the concluding 6 months of Monroe'southward life until her death in 1962 at the historic period of 36. We first heard about this one dorsum in Apr 2019, but since then at that place'south been no news about casting or filming.
The Lazarus Project (April)
This one needs to be on your radar: Giri/Haji creator Joe Barton has written an 8-part activeness thriller starring I May Destroy Yous and Gangs of London 'due south Paapa Essiedu. Information technology's the story of a man recruited into an organization formed to terminate global catastrophes, who ends up reliving the same twenty-four hours again and again. Strike 's Tom Burke, The Bodyguard 'due south Anjli Mohindra and Jonathan Creek 's Caroline Quentin co-star. It formerly went by the title 'Extinction'.
The Light In The Hall /Y Golau (tbc)
Written by Murdered By My Boyfriend 'due south Regina Moriarty, this six-part psychological thriller coming to S4C and Channel four is about a journalist obsessed by the murder of a woman from her own home town. They were both once function of the aforementioned friendship group only savage out equally teenagers. Like huge Welsh hit Keeping Faith , it's a bilingual drama that will be filmed and broadcast in both Welsh and English language. The bandage looks great, with Utopia 's Alexandra Roach, Misfits and Game of Thrones ' Iwan Rheon and The Thick of It and No Offence 's Joanna Scanlan.
The Midwich Cuckoos (June)
John Wyndham'southward classic 1957 sci-fi is getting a modern TV accommodation courtesy of The Night Manager and Hanna writer David Farr. The eight role series updates the novel to the present mean solar day and set the action in a commuter boondocks south of London, where the local women all mysteriously autumn pregnant at the same fourth dimension and give nascence to a cohort of very unusual children. The most famous adaptation to date was cult favourite Village of the Damned . Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley will star.
The Red Zone (tbc)
Sports writers Barney Ronay and Jonathan Liew are behind this half-dozen-part half-hr one-act "about football, but also non near football," which was announced past Netflix in belatedly 2020. Director Sam Mendes is executive producing through his Neal Street Productions company. No casting or further details have however been confirmed for this one.
The Responder (January)
Filming begain in May 2022 on this v-role BBC Two series from new screenwriter and quondam law officer Tony Schumacher, who'southward been mentored past Jimmy McGovern as part of a BBC Writers Room initiative. The Responder will star The Hobbit and Sherlock 'southward Martin Freeman as officer Chris, who works a serial of night shifts in Liverpool, alongside his rookie new partner Rachel (Adelayo Adedayo). The series is fantabulous, and an early contender for best new drama of the twelvemonth. Read our review hither.
The Rig (tbc)
In Nov 2020, Amazon Prime Video green-lit this six-episode supernatural thriller from Line of Duty and Bodyguard manager John Strickland, written by David Macpherson. Filmed in Scotland, it's set onboard the Kishorn Bravo oil rig in the N Sea. The crew finds itself marooned on the rig past a mysterious fog that cuts off communication with the outside world. Line of Duty 's Martin Compston (pictured), Owen Teale and Rochenda Sandall volition star, alongside Iain Glen, Marker Bonnar and more than.
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (tbc)
At present this sounds like a bit of alright. Adapted from Stuart Turton's novel of the same proper noun, it's a seven-part murder mystery coming to Netflix. The story's a high-concept thriller about a adult female trying to solve a murder who keeps waking upwards in somebody else's body every time she gets close to the respond. Sophie Petzal ( The Final Kingdom , Claret ) is adapting it, and the announcement only arrived in late 2020, so don't look it for a trivial while yet. Casting is tba.
The Three (tbc)
Another BBC drama commission based on a book series, The Three , "an international thriller with a supernatural twist", was announced in late 2022 merely there'south been no news since then. The premise of Sarah Lotz' trilogy sees four planes crash on the aforementioned day in four different countries, leaving three children as the miraculous survivors… Wolf Hall 's Peter Straughan was attached as adapting this eight-office drama only as withal, information technology'southward still to appear on his IMDb credits. We'll continue you lot posted if more arrives.
The Tourist (January)
Producer-writers Harry and Jack Williams ( Fleabag , Baptiste , The Missing , Liar ) are back with a six-part BBC-HBO Max drama prepare and filmed in South Commonwealth of australia. The Tourist is an outback noir about a British man pursued through the Australian outback by a tank truck. When the man awakens in a hospital with no memory of who he is or how he got at that place, his search for answers takes him to some unsettling places. Chris Sweeney ( Back to Life ) directs, with The Fall 's Jamie Dornan leading the cast. It was BBC One'south big New Year's Day drama for 2022.
The Undeclared War (tbc)
Channel 4 has teamed upward with Peacock to commission this six-part cyber thriller written by Wolf Hall 'southward Peter Kosminsky. It's prepare in 2024, as a team of GCHQ cyber specialists secretly work to fend off a cyber assail on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland electoral system. There'southward an impressive cast, from Mark Rylance (pictured above in Bridge of Spies ), to Adrian Lester, Alex Jennings, Simon Pegg, Maisie Richardson-Sellers and newcomer Hannah Khalique-Brown. The commission was announced in April 2021.
Then Barbara Met Alan (March)
This new drama from the vivid Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr tells the existent-life story of inability campaigners Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, who met as cabaret performers and went on to promote the Directly Action Network who protested and campaigned for disabled rights. Ruth Madeley and Arthur Hughes (pictured) pb the cast.
And so You Run (tbc)
So You Run (previously known equally You ) will be an eight-office thriller coming to Sky. Filming started in June 2022 in the United kingdom and Morocco on this adaptation of the Zoran Drvenkar novel, which tells the story of Tara O'Rourke, a immature adult female on the run across Europe after committing a deadly criminal offense. She's pursued by a unsafe gangster and a serial killer known but as 'The Traveller'. The Capture writer-director Ben Chanan has written the adaptation.
This Is Going To Hurt (February)
Everybody should read Adam Kay's excruciating but brilliant and moving memoir of his time as a inferior doctor, then they should immediately buy a copy for a friend. The BBC Two adaptation, written past Kay (he left medicine for comedy writing years ago) and starring Ben Whishaw and Ambika Mod, is even improve than the book and a must-see (though peradventure non if you're due to requite nativity in the near time to come). It started on February the 8th on BBC Ane and is available to stream in full on BBC iPlayer.
Tom Jones (tbc)
Praise for 2018'due south Vanity Fair adaptation, scheduled reverse Bodyguard in 2018, was drowned out somewhat by the striking political thriller, merely there was plenty of it, and deservingly and then. Adept news then, that ITV has brought screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes dorsum to tackle another classic novel – Henry Fielding's 1749 book Tom Jones . Filming started in Nov 2022 in Northern Ireland, with a cast including Ted Lasso 's Hannah Waddingham alongside leads Solly McLeod and Sophie Wilde (pictured above).
Trigger Point (January)
Line of Duty 's Vicky McClure plays bomb disposal adept Lana Washington in this new ITV thriller from the Jed Mercurio stable. Written past Daniel Brierley and executive produced by Mercurio, it's the story of a front-line bomb disposal pro whose team is pushed to the limits tackling a terrorist threat to London. Read our reviews here.
Wahala (tbc)
This BBC series, described equally " Large Little Lies meets Girlfriends meets Peckham" is adapted from Nikki May's as-yet-unpublished novel of the same proper name. It's almost Simi, Ronke and Boo, three thirty-something Anglo-Nigerian women living in London whose friendship is shaken by the arrival of the beautiful, charismatic Isobel, with tragic consequences.
We Are Not Alone (tbc)
Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond of Ghosts and Horrible Histories fame take written a two hour sci-fi comedy special that's coming to Dave in 2022. It'due south fix in a post alien-invasion earth and "explores the culture clash between humankind and its new alien masters, who are trying to make sense of a disruptive planet," according to the official announcement. The bandage, featuring Taskmaster favourite Mike Wozniak, the bright Ellie White and Vicki Pepperdine, Rob Delaney and loads of groovy names, is pictured above.
White Stork (tbc)
Formerly known as Spadehead, White Stork is a x-episode political drama coming to Netflix courtesy of Eleven, the British production compnay behind Sex activity Education. Tom Hiddleston ( The Avengers , The Night Manager – pictured higher up) stars equally James Cooper, whose clandestine past is unearthed when he'southward vetted in preparation for a parliamentary ballot. Information technology was creted past Jericho and Meadowlands' Christopher Dunlop, with Taboo's Kristoffer Nyholm directing.
Witchfinder (March)
A newcomer to BBC Two from the author-directors of the excellent This Fourth dimension With Alan Partridge is historical one-act The Witchfinder . Set in 1647, it'south the story of a failing witchfinder played by Tim Key (stand-upwards, poet, actor, Side Kick Simon from loads of Alan Partridge shows and most importantly, Taskmaster task consultant), on a horseback road-trip through Eastward Anglia with his latest captee, played by Daisy May Cooper (writer-creator of This Country , the vivid Kerry Mucklowe on screen and people'southward champion of Taskmaster series 10). Six half-hour episodes aired from March on BBC 2.
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (April)
Hugh Laurie (pictured to a higher place in BBC political drama Roadkill ) has adapted Agatha Christie's 1934 novel as a Britbox original. It'due south the story of a vicar's son and socialite duo played by Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton, who become amateur detectives and set out to solve a crime when they discover a dying man asking the titular question. Production began in June 2021, with a very fine British one-act bandage, and the adaptation is due to air exclusively on Britbox in Spring 2022.
Wolf (tbc)
Not to be dislocated with Sky crime drama Wolfe , this new six-function crime thriller is coming to BBC 1. It's adapted from Mo Hayder's series of Jack Caffery novels by Megan Gallagher and stars The Midwich Cuckoos ' Ukweli Roach in the lead part of DI Caffery. Joining Roach in the bandage are Doctor Who 's Sacha Dhawan, Game of Thrones ' Iwan Rheon, Line of Duty 's Owen Teale and Sian Reese-Williams, and Juliet Stevenson. Information technology's being made by Sherlock producers Hartswood Films.
Grab upwardly on the new British TV shows that aired in 2022 here.
Source: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/new-british-tv-series-for-2022-bbc-itv-channel-4-sky-dramas-britbox-more/
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