The BBC has announced California Avenue, a new drama from the BAFTA-award winning writer and director Hugo Blick…
The six-part BBC One series brings together a star cast led by multi-award winners Bill Nighy (Living, About Time) and Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown, Nolly) alongside Erin Doherty (The Crown, Adolescence) and Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Souvenir).
California Avenue is a story brimming with humour and love. Set in a secluded canal-side caravan park deep in the luscious English countryside, its peace is irrevocably disrupted by the arrival of Lela (Erin Doherty) and her 11-year-old child, both on the run, looking for refuge in this hidden world. It is here that a fractured family will come together, ghosts and demons will firmly be put to rest and an unexpected love is forged.
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama:
“Hugo Blick has given us some of the finest television of the past three decades and it’s an honour to join forces with him alongside Bill, Helena, Erin, Tom and Drama Republic to take BBC viewers on the journey of a lifetime to 1970s California Avenue.”
Bill Nighy and Helena Bonham Carter star as Jerry and Eddie, Lela’s parents, while Tom Burke co-stars as showman outcast, Cooper. The series is the latest collaboration between Hugo Blick, Drama Republic, Eight Rooks and the BBC following The English, The Honourable Woman and Black Earth Rising.
Filming begins later this summer in and around Hertfordshire and further casting will be announced in due course. California Avenue will be produced by Drama Republic, makers of One Day and Doctor Foster.
Writer, director and executive producer for Eight Rooks, Hugo Blick:
“Over the past few decades, whether through comedy, political dramas or even a western, I’ve looked to explore what television fiction can be. California Avenue is an exploration of the people who inspired me to want to do this.”
