Overview
- The BBC revealed the principal cast on Thursday and production is now filming in Birmingham and London for an eight-part series based on Open Water.
- Toheeb Jimoh will play Marcus, a retail worker and aspiring photographer, and Dujonna Gift will make her lead TV debut as Effie, a dance student.
- Caleb Azumah Nelson is the lead writer, director and an executive producer on the project, a rare example of the author maintaining creative control over a screen adaptation.
- Mam Tor Productions and B-Side Productions are producing for BBC One and iPlayer, with Banijay Rights handling international distribution and Cassie Kinoshi attached to compose the score.
- The adaptation highlights a tender Black British love story and a project documenting Black creatives, and it arrives with no broadcast date announced so the BBC’s release timing remains pending.