Overview
- The BBC and Starz confirmed the greenlight on Thursday, July 30, 2026, and named Claire Foy and Matthew Macfadyen as the lead actors playing Marnie and Michael.
- David Nicholls adapted his own novel into an eight-episode screenplay and serves as an executive producer while Lenny Abrahamson is attached to direct.
- Element Pictures is producing the series, Fremantle will handle global sales, and De Maio Entertainment is coordinating the Starz partnership.
- The story follows two middle-aged strangers who walk England’s Coast to Coast trail from the Lake District to Robin Hood’s Bay and the production plans to film in the Lake District and around Manchester with filming set to start soon; no broadcast date has been announced.
- The project reunites Abrahamson and Element Pictures after Normal People and builds on Nicholls’ history of screen adaptations, signaling a push for a high-profile, internationally sold British drama that could boost local filming economies and tourism in the Lake District.