BBC claims This City is Ours
FIRST LOOK: Sean Bean, James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Onslow, Jack McMullen and Julie Graham head the cast of Liverpool-set crime drama This City is Ours, launching on the BBC this spring.
Nelson-Joyce plays Michael Kavanagh, a man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organised crime, working for his friend and the gang leader Ronnie Phelan (Bean). When Ronnie begins to hint at retirement, Michael too begins to imagine another life. Because, for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose – Diana Williams (Onslow).
For years, together with Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into Liverpool and beyond, directly from Columbia; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their Kingdom is under attack.
When Ronnie’s son Jamie (McMullen) decides he wants to inherit their kingdom and that there is no longer a place for Michael at the table, both Michael and Jamie have bold ideas to modernise the gang and they will battle for control of it. But Michael’s biggest battle will be to save the woman he loves and the child he has always wanted.
Graham plays Elaine, head of the Phelan family alongside her husband Ronnie. The series also stars Laura Aikman as Rachel Duffy, Kevin Harvey as Bobby Duffy, Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Cheryl Crawford, Mike Noble as Banksey, Bobby Schofield as Bonehead, Darci Shaw as Melissa Sullivan and Stephen Walters as Davy Crawford.
Set and filmed in Liverpool, with additional filming in Spain, the eight-part series is made by Left Bank Pictures for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Worldwide distribution is handled by Sony Pictures Television.
It was created by Stephen Butchard, who is lead writer, with Robbie O’Neill writing further episodes. The directors are Saul Dibb (The Salisbury Poisonings), John Hayes (Nightsleeper) and Eshref Reybrouck (Undercover). The producer is Simon Maloney (Peaky Blinders, I May Destroy You).
Executive producers are Andy Harries, Rebecca Hodgson and Sian McWilliams for Left Bank Pictures, Stephen Butchard and Saul Dibb, and Jo McClellan and Sami El Hadi for the BBC.
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