All the best new BBC dramas coming soon

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Line of Duty, The Split, Everything I Know About Love, Normal People, This is Going to Hurt – it's fair to say we're a nation who love a good TV drama, especially when the BBC are behind the camera. But what about the best new BBC dramas, out now and coming soon? The good news is that there are plenty of exciting new TV dramas still to come this year and into 2025, so we have much to look forward to.

Coming later in 2024, the BBC has announced an exciting two-part special of hit legal drama The Split, starring Nicola Walker and Annabel Scholey. Other dramas to look forward to at the end of 2024 include the next instalment of Strike, the crime series based on J.K. Rowling's popular novels, starring Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger.

Into 2025 and beyond, the BBC has plenty of drama hits lined up. Following the huge success of 2020's I May Destroy You, multi-award winner Michaela Coel will soon be back with a new BBC drama, First Day on Earth. Meanwhile, the BBC has just announced a new four-part drama, The Guest, centred on the toxic relationship between a successful business owner and the woman who works for her. There's also Riot Women, the latest drama from award-winning Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright.

We can also start looking forward to a second series of hit comedy-drama Ludwig, starring David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin. Plus, we have a brand new comedy-drama to look forward to, starring Doctor Foster and Vigil favourite Suranne Jones. Co-written and co-created by Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood, Film Club is described as "piercingly funny and utterly heart-warming". As well as this, the BBC has acquired The Walsh Sisters, a new five-part comedy drama inspired by the bestselling novels of Marian Keyes (see more below).

Meanwhile, fans of 2016 smash hit The Night Manager will be pleased to hear that Tom Hiddleston will be reprising his role as Jonathan Pine in a second series. The BBC has also released the action-packed trailer for season two of hit WWII drama SAS Rogue Heroes, starring Dominic West and Jack O'Connell. We've also just been given a first look at season two of Michelle Keegan's popular post-War drama, Ten Pound Poms.

And there's plenty for period drama fans to get excited about too. Miss Austen, a new four-part drama based on Gill Hornby's bestseller (and starring Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie) will also be coming soon. Meanwhile, a new series, centred on the most unassuming of the Bennet sisters in Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice, has just been announced by the BBC. Read more about The Other Bennet Sister – based on the hit novel of the same name – below. As well as this, a new eight-part period drama, King & Conqueror, with an all-star cast featuring Clémence Poésy and James Norton, is also coming soon.

From true crime thrillers and lavish period dramas to the return of old favourites, we've rounded up the best new dramas coming to the BBC soon. Find out more about each show below, and prepare to never leave your sofa again...


The Walsh Sisters

Release date: TBC on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

The BBC has acquired The Walsh Sisters, a new drama inspired by five of the bestselling novels of global bestselling Irish author Marian Keyes, including the hugely popular Rachel's Holiday and Anybody Out There.

The BBC description reads: "Set in their Dublin hometown, The Walsh Sisters follows the lives of Anna, Rachel, Maggie, Claire and Helen as they navigate the peaks and troughs of their late 20s and 30s.

"This is a sisterhood full of in-jokes, hand-me-down resentments and more than a few old wounds. But their DNA, history and shared love of power ballads keep the Walsh sisters together in the face of heartbreak, grief, addiction and parenthood."

Speaking about the series in a release, Marian Keyes said: "This is SO exciting!!!! I'm beside myself! I love the scripts; they've really kept the spirit of the books. It's been almost impossible to keep this a secret and it's a great feeling that the news is now out in the world."

Billed as a "comedy about serious things — a pacey, brutally honest and uncompromisingly funny exposé of the realities of being an Irish sister", The Walsh Sisters will begin filming in early 2025. We can't wait for this one.

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Ten Pound Poms

Release date: TBC on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

BBC has released a first look at season two of Michelle Keegan's popular drama, Ten Pound Poms. Set to land on our screens in 2025, the return of the hit series will feature many familiar faces as well as new additions to the cast.

The drama, staring Keegan alongside Faye Marsay and Warren Brown, follows a group of Brits escaping post-War Britain to embark on a life-changing adventure on the other side of the world in Australia.

The BBC description reads: "You can make your own world when you leave the past behind. Swapping dreary '50s Britain for a bright future Down Under, the new arrivals find a fresh start can come at a price."

There's no word yet on the release date, but we'll keep you up-to-date with all the news here.

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Open Water

Release date: TBC on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

The BBC has commissioned new drama Open Water, based on the multi award-winning novel of the same name by Caleb Azumah Nelson. The author will serve as lead writer, director and executive producer on the new eight-part series for BBC One.

The BBC description reads: "Marcus works in retail while trying to develop a career as a photographer. Effie is studying dance at university in Dublin. From the moment they meet, they feel an immediate, undeniable connection. But, as Marcus soon learns, Effie is in a relationship with Marcus’ friend Samuel. It’s a boundary that Marcus is unwilling to cross. A shared project, photographing and documenting Black creatives in London, draws them into each other’s orbit, but can their burgeoning friendship resist the pull of desire?

"They seem destined for each other, their crush evolving into a love that is ocean-deep. But love is never enough, and their path towards one another is treacherous. Will they sink or swim in open water?"

Speaking about the upcoming adaptation in a release, Azumah Nelson said: "It’s been an absolute joy working alongside Mam Tor, B-Side and the BBC to adapt Open Water for the screen. I can’t wait for viewers not only to meet Marcus and Effie but to step into their world: their private, intimate spaces, their communities, their desires. I’m incredibly grateful to be telling this story at this time."

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Babies

Release date: TBC on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

BBC has announced a new drama, Babies, from Stefan Golaszewski, the award-wining creator of 2022's Marriage. Charlotte Riley will star alongside leads Paapa Essiedu (Black Mirror) and Siobhán Cullen (Bodkin), as well as Jack Bannon (Pennyworth).

The six-part series is described as "a warm and touching drama which explores the delicate tightrope of love and loss in a young couple's desire to become parents".

The BBC description continues: "Lisa (Cullen) and Stephen (Essiedu) are dealing with the painful struggle of pregnancy loss while life continues around them. However, despite facing dark times of grief and loneliness, they are finding their way through it with a burning sense of hope, humour, and love, realising the strength of their relationship, which will ultimately bring them closer than ever."

Golaszewski said in the release: "Paapa, Siobhán, Jack and Charlotte are all incredible actors. Their warmth, detail and deep humanity are essential to telling this crucial story that’s never told."

Filming has now begun in and around London, so watch this space on a release date.

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King & Conqueror

Release date: TBC in 2025 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

Period drama fans, rejoice because the BBC is releasing a new eight-part historical series, with an all-star cast, including James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Clémence Poésy and Juliet Stevenson – and the first look images promise some epic action.

King & Conqueror, from Sherlock Holmes writer Michael Robert Johnson, is based on the iconic 11th century figures Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy.

The BBC says in a release: "King & Conqueror is the story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years, the roots of which stretch back decades and extend out through a pair of interconnected family dynasties, struggling for power across two countries and a raging sea."Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne, who found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown."

We can't wait for this

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Half Man

Release date: TBC on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

Richard Gadd's new BBC drama Half Man is set to begin filming in 2025. The Baby Reindeer actor will write, executive produce and star in the six-part drama alongside actor Jamie Bell. Filming is set to take place in Scotland in the new year.

The BBC description reads: "Half Man follows estranged ‘brothers’ Niall (Jamie Bell) and Ruben (Richard Gadd). When Ruben shows up unexpectedly at Niall’s wedding, it leads to an explosion of violence that catapults us back through their lives.

"Spanning almost 40 years from the 1980s to the present day, this ambitious series will cover the highs and lows of the brothers' relationship, from them meeting as teenagers to their falling out as adults – with all the good, bad, terrible, funny, angry, and challenging moments along the way.

"Half Man will capture the wild energy of a changing city – a changing world, even – and try to get to the bottom of the difficult question... What does it mean to be a man?"

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SAS Rogue Heroes season two

Release date: 1 January 2025 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

The trailer for series two of World War II hit war drama SAS Rogue Heroes, starring Dominic West and Jack O'Connell, has been released, promising an action-packed sequel.

Created by Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight and based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, season two will rejoin the troops in the spring of 1943.

The BBC description reads: "Paddy Mayne (Jack O’Connell) takes control of the SAS following David Stirling’s (Connor Swindells) capture, as attention turns from the conflict in North Africa to mainland Europe. But GHQ have cast doubt over the future of the regiment, while the creation of a second unit and an influx of new arrivals make things even more difficult for the men. Can they prove that the SAS remains essential to the war, wherever it may lead them?"

WATCH THE TRAILER

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Film Club

Release date: TBC in 2025 on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer

Doctor Foster and Vigil star Suranne Jones is set to return to the BBC in a new romantic comedy-drama, Film Club.

Co-created and co-written by Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood and Ralph Davis (House of the Dragon), who will both also star, the series is described as a "piercingly funny and utterly heart-warming" show about love and family.

The BBC description reads: "Friday night. 7pm. Film Club Week 198. Evie (Aimee Lou Wood) hasn’t left the house in six months after a ‘wobble’, and Film Club is her escape. A weekly chance to create a world of wonder, deck the garage out in whatever the movie calls for and spend a few uninterrupted hours with Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan) – her best friend and one of the few mates who still shows up.

"But tonight, things are different. Noa’s got big news. A dream job is taking him across the other side of the country, which means that all of this is ending. That reality is hitting. That they’re going to be forced to consider for the first time they might be more than just friends. Neither of them are the best when it comes to emotions but this time those emotions might be impossible to ignore.

"As if life weren’t challenging enough already, Evie is going to be navigating this amongst the eccentricity of her family home – living with her fiercely loving single mum Suz (Suranne Jones), sister Izzie, and handsome boyfriend/sometime man of the house Josh."

Co-creator and star Aimee Lou Wood says: “I’m thrilled that our beloved TV series Film Club, a project that Ralph and I have been writing for the past decade, starts shooting this week. We couldn’t be more excited, and grateful, to the incredible team we have assembled with the BBC. To bring this to life with Nabhaan and Suranne, two exceptional actors I have always admired, is a real honour.”


We're looking forward to this one.

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Strike: The Ink Black Heart

Release date: 16 and 17 December 2024 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger will return to our screens this December in Strike: The Ink Black Heart, the next instalment of the BBC's hit crime drama, adapted from J.K. Rowling's popular novels (written under the pseudonym, Robert Galbraith).

The BBC description reads: "When frantic, desperate Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger)doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.

"Robin informs Edie that the agency is too busy to take on her case and thinks nothing more of it until a few weeks later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

"Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches them to their limit."

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The Split two-part special

Release date: 29 and 30 December 2024 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

Fans of The Split, rejoice. The hit legal drama is set to return to our screens after all, although not for a full series – instead, the BBC has announced a new two-part special, coming later this year.

Created and written by multi-award winner Abi Morgan, the action will take place during a wedding weekend in Spain, two years after we said goodbye to Hannah Defoe (Nicola Walker) and her family at the end of the hugely popular third season.

New characters set to join the Defoe clan for the special include Toby Stephens as hot-shot family lawyer Archie Moore, while returning cast members confirmed to join Nicola Walker's Hannah include fellow Defoe sisters Nina (Annabel Scholey) and Rose (Fiona Button), as well as Hannah's ex Nathan (Stephen Mangan).

Abi Morgan said in a release: "In a world of brutal break-ups and tantalising make ups, the Defoe family are invited to a destination wedding of their own, promising all that audiences have grown to love about The Split. Problematic prenups, scandalous wedding crashers, and low flying marriage proposals, as rom com meets gone wrong, in a chaotic and riotous weekend that guarantees to crack open the heart, before the last of the guests have gone home."

We really can't wait for this.

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Silent Witness

Release date: Early 2025 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

The ever popular Silent Witness is set to return for more episodes in early 2025, the BBC has announced.

Joining Emilia Fox's Dr Nikki Alexander and Jack Hodgson (David Caves) will be two new cast members: Maggie Steed (Paddington 2, Rivals) will play Harriet Maven, the new Head of The Lyell Centre, and Francesca Mills (The Witcher: Blood Origin) will star as Kit Brooks, a Crime Analyst working with Jack.

The BBC says: "The new series opens with a disturbing mystery, when the death of an elderly woman found in a cave has the team asking what drives a person to murder someone so vulnerable. We also get an introduction to the two dynamic new team members."

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Miss Austen

Release date: TBC in 2025

Jane Austen fans, take note. A new four-part drama starring Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie is coming soon to the BBC. The star-studded series is an adaptation of Gill Hornby's bestseller, Miss Austen.

The BBC says: "Miss Austen takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters – and reimagines it as a fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, while creating in Cassandra a character as captivating as any Austen heroine."

Sue Deeks, Head of BBC Programme Acquisition, says of the drama: "Miss Austen is the perfect blend of intriguing mystery, vivid and engaging characters and beguiling period charm – BBC viewers certainly have a treat in store."

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Ludwig season two

Release date: TBC on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

Smash hit detective comedy-drama Ludwig, starring David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin, will return for a second series, the BBC has confirmed.

The BBC description reads: "The show follows John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor, whose identical twin brother James mysteriously vanishes. John takes on his brother’s identity to uncover the truth behind his disappearance. But there’s a twist: John has lived a quiet, uneventful life, designing puzzles and avoiding the outside world, while his brother is a high-flying DCI leading a major crimes team in Cambridge. Filling in for James leads to hilariously high stakes and serious crime-solving."

David Mitchell will return as Ludwig in series two, alongside Anna Maxwell Martin as Lucy Betts-Taylor, the wife of John’s missing brother, James.

David Mitchell said in a release: "I’m delighted that John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor has failed to escape the clutches of the Cambridge police and will have to continue to face up to the city’s alarming conundrum-based crime wave."

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Wild Cherry

Release date: TBC on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

The BBC has announced Wild Cherry, the highly anticipated second drama from BAFTA-winning Nicôle Lecky, following the success of 2022's Mood.

The new mother-daughter drama, set in an exclusive private school, will be led by Eve Best (House of the Dragon, The King’s Speech), Carmen Ejogo (True Detective, The Penguin), Imogen Faires (Marcella) and newcomer Amelia May. Also joining the cast are Sophie Winkleman (Peep Show, Sanditon) and Nicôle Lecky (Mood), who also serves as an executive producer.

The BBC description reads: "Meet Lorna (Carmen Ejogo), a self-made, successful black businesswoman from South London who has worked hard to be where she is – and best friend Juliet (Eve Best), a woman born into the privileged gated community they both call home. Daughters Grace (Imogen Faires) and Allegra (Amelia May) are BFFs and live a life other teenagers can only dream of. A safe haven for the super-rich and their little darlings, Richford Estate is a place where bad things never happen…

"Until, that is, Grace and Allegra are implicated in a shocking scandal at their exclusive private school and Juliet and Lorna are forced to take sides, pushing their friendship to breaking point. As toxic secrets and lies ripple through the idyllic town, cracks within the community threaten to reveal the elitist ugliness and betrayal beneath.

"Set in a private enclave in the Home Counties, the six-part series is a provocative and deliciously honest look at mother/daughter relationships in a haze of social media, hidden apps and peer pressure that asks: how far will we go to protect our children? And just how much do teenage girls know about the women raising them? If the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, then who is leading these girls astray?"

Filming for Wild Cherry has started in Surrey but a release date is still to be confirmed so watch this space.

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The Other Bennet Sister

Release date: TBC

Period drama fans, get excited, because the BBC has just announced a new series based on the story of one of Jane Austen's most unassuming characters, Mary Bennet. Often thought of as the forgotten Bennet sister in Austen's timeless classic Pride and Prejudice, Mary will take centre stage in the new series, based on hit novel The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow.

The BBC says in a release: "The Other Bennet Sister is a fresh spin around the ballroom for one of Jane Austen’s most unassuming characters: Mary Bennet – the seemingly unremarkable and overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The series takes as its premise that – when it comes to the Bennet sisters – while we dream of being Lizzy, in reality most us are more like Mary...

"Unlike her sisters, Mary isn’t your typical period drama heroine. She is awkward, anxious, preachy, full of facts, a terrible singer… overlooked by her mother and seemingly destined to an empty dance card for the rest of her life… until Mary takes matters into her own hands.

"The Other Bennet Sister gives Mary Bennet the epic love story nobody predicted for her, taking her from her family home in Meryton to the soirees of Regency London and the peaks and vales of the Lake District – all in search of independence, romance and, most elusive of all, self-love and acceptance."

Screenwriter Sarah Quintrell (The Power) has been commissioned to create the 10-part series. "I’m thrilled to be telling the story of Mary – the other Bennet sister – exploring what it is to come of age when you’re the odd one out," she says. "It’s a joy to be adapting Janice Hadlow’s brilliant take on such a beloved classic with the team at Bad Wolf, and to have found our home at the BBC. I grew up (an awkward, anxious teen, getting everything wrong...) watching the BBC's wonderful Austen adaptations. It’s the stuff every writer dreams of and I can’t wait to bring this beautiful story to screen – not least, for all the Marys out there."

Further details, including casting information, have yet to be revealed but we're excited for this one already.

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Lynley

Release date: TBC on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

Vikings: Valhalla star Leo Suter will star alongside Sofia Barclay (Ted Lasso) as the unconventional detective duo DI Tommy Lynley and DS Barbara Havers in Lynley, a new contemporary adaptation of Elizabeth George's bestselling crime mystery novels.

The BBC says: "Tommy Lynley is a brilliant police detective but an outsider in the force – simply by virtue of his aristocratic upbringing. He is paired with Barbara Havers, a sergeant with a maverick attitude and a working-class background. With seemingly nothing in common and against all odds, the mismatched duo of Lynley and Havers become a formidable team, bonded by their desire to see justice done."

Author Elizabeth George says: “I'm thrilled to see Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers come to television again, especially through the participation of the BBC and Britbox and the production expertise of Playground. Watching my characters brought to life on television is a real celebration."

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Riot Women

Release date: TBC

The BBC has announced the cast for new drama Riot Women, written by award-winning Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright.

In the upcoming drama, we'll meet five women coming together to create a make-shift punk rock band in order to win a local talent contest.

The cast (and band) will be led by Joanna Scanlan (The Thick of It) as Beth, Rosalie Craig (Serpent Queen) as Kitty, Tamsin Greig (Sexy Beast) as Holly, Lorraine Ashbourne (Sherwood) as Jess, and Amelia Bullmore (The Buccaneers) as Yvonne.

The BBC release says: "As they juggle demanding jobs, grown-up children, complicated parents, husbands who’ve buggered off, and disastrous dates and relationships, the band becomes a catalyst for change in their lives, and it’s going to make them question everything.

"The six-part series is a testament to the power of friendship, music, and the resilience of women who refuse to be silenced by age or expectation. As the story (set in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire) progresses, it’s more than music that binds them; a deeply potent, long-buried secret begins to surface – one that unexpectedly entangles Kitty and Beth, the two unlikely creative masterminds behind the band, in a complex triangle – and threatens to tear everything apart."

Sally Wainwright adds: "I think I am more excited about this than anything else I have ever written. Ever. Oh my God. We have five of the most fabulous actresses on the planet playing the Riot Women. It's scarily exciting."

We can't wait for this one.

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The Guest

Release date: TBC

The BBC has just announced The Guest, a new four-part drama that will be filmed in and around Cardiff. Eve Myles (Keeping Faith; Broadchurch) and Gabrielle Creevy (Three Women) will lead the fast-paced thriller, centred on the toxic relationship between successful business owner Fran and her employee, Ria.

The BBC said in a release: "Ria has never had the time or opportunity to think about what she might actually want from the world. So, when she starts cleaning for Fran, she’s intoxicated by this confident and self-assured woman who encourages her to take control of her life and, when Ria flourishes, an intense friendship is forged.

"However, when Fran’s advice leads to a shocking event, the lives of these two very different women become intertwined by shared secrets and dangerous plots. What follows is a compelling and manipulative game of cat-and-mouse. But just who is playing who?"

We're intrigued already.

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First Day on Earth

Release date: TBC

The BBC has finally announced the highly anticipated new drama from multi-award-winning I May Destroy You star Michaela Coel. Coel will write, star and serve as an executive producer on the 10-part series, First Day on Earth.

"British novelist Henri (Michaela Coel) is stuck," says the BBC in a release. "Work has dried up, her relationship is going nowhere. So when she's offered a job on a film in Ghana, West Africa – her parents' homeland, where her estranged father lives – she can't resist the chance to reconnect with him and the country of her heritage.

"But when she arrives neither the job nor her father turn out the way she expected, and soon Henri has to deal with danger and hypocrisy, form new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a new sense of identity – one that might leave her stronger, but could also break her."

Speaking about the new drama series, Michaela Coel says: "I am delighted to be working with VAL, the BBC and HBO again, and to partner with A24; thanks to all of their combined taste, care and expertise, I feel our show is in great hands. The process of creating FDOE thus far has been a beautifully intimate experience, and I am excited to embark on the next phase to eventually offer this as another televisual gift for anyone willing to accompany Henri on what will be a wild odyssey!”

This is bound to be epic.

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Dear England

Release date: TBC

The BBC has announced a four-part TV adaptation of Dear England, based on the National Theatre play of the same name.

The new series, about Gareth Southgate's time as manager of the England football team, will star Joseph Fiennes as Southgate. It will be written by James Graham, the playwright behind the hit play.

The BBC says: "It’s time to change the game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t the England team win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take team and country back to the promised land."

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Reunion

Release date: TBC

Filming has started in Yorkshire on new BBC revenge thriller Reunion, starring Bad Sisters' Anne-Marie Duff. The four-part series marks an important milestone in inclusive storytelling, with the majority of cast and many members of the crew being deaf or using British Sign Language (BSL), the BBC has shared.

Written by Sheffield-born deaf writer William Mager, Reunion is described as "an emotional thriller of revenge and redemption following the journey of Daniel Brennan, a deaf man determined to right his wrongs, while unravelling the truth behind the events that led him to prison".

Anne-Marie Duff said in the release: “I am genuinely thrilled to be a part of this very exciting production. It is rare to witness a narrative where the audience is taken on a journey with a very different set of senses. It’s about our need to acknowledge each other’s truths - both inside our own families and beyond. The team is so extraordinary. I feel very honoured to be rubbing shoulders with them."


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The Night Manager season 2

Release date: TBC

Fans of the BBC's smash hit 2016 adaptation of John le Carré's The Night Manager will be thrilled to hear that two new seasons are in the pipeline, as confirmed by Deadline.

Tom Hiddleston is set to reprise his role as Jonathan Pine in the hugely popular thriller, which will air on the BBC and Amazon Prime. The original series featured an all-star cast, including Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander and Elizabeth Debicki.

The new series will pick up eight years after the first season's dramatic conclusion, and filming is set to start later this year. We can't wait for this.

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