Yahoo Finance Lesley Manville's Sherwood: First look at BBC drama
BBC has released the first look image of The Crown's Lesley Manville and The Missing's David Morrissey in upcoming drama Sherwood.
The contemporary series, from writer James Graham, is in part inspired by real events, set in the Nottinghamshire mining village in which two shocking and unexpected killings shattered an already fractured community and sparked a massive manhunt.
BBC's synopsis reads: "As suspicion and antipathy build, between lifelong neighbours and towards the police forces who descend on the town, the tragic killings threaten to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners' Strike three decades before."
Oscar nominee Manville - who will star as Princess Margaret in season 5 of The Crown - plays Julie Jackson, the wife of Gary Jackson (Alun Armstrong) a committed NUM member and one of the few miners from Ashfield on the picket line in the 80s. He won’t let anyone forget it, even decades later, which sets him at odds with his neighbours.
Morrissey plays Detective Chief Superintendent Ian St Clair, a lifer in the Nottinghamshire constabulary, having risen through the ranks. An empathetic detective with an impressive track record to prove it, he is tasked with finding the link between these two killings.
The drama will also focus on the controversial deployment of so-called 'spycops' around Britain, and is described as "a powerfully resonant and timely examination of the frayed social and political fabric of modern-day, post-Brexit Britain". Sherwood explores and exposes some of the most urgent fractures and discords that thread through modern British society.
The cast also includes Sweet Tooth's Adeel Akhtar, The Split's Stephen Tompkinson, Line of Duty's Perry Fitzpatrick and Bridgeton's Lorraine Ashbourne.
Sherwood will air on BBC One later this year.
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