BBC tames Wild Cherry
FIRST LOOK: Mood creator Nicôle Lecky returns to the BBC with Wild Cherry, a new drama in which she stars alongside Eve Best, Carmen Ejogo, Imogen Faires and newcomer Amelia May. It is currently in production.
Meet Lorna (Ejogo), a self-made, successful, mixed black businesswoman from North West London who has worked hard to be where she is – and best friend Juliet (Best), a woman born into the privileged gated community they both call home.
Daughters Grace (Faires) and Allegra (May) are BFFs and live a life other teenagers can only dream of. A safe haven for the super-rich and their little darlings, Richford Lake is a place where bad things never happen…
Until, that is, Grace and Allegra are implicated in a shocking scandal at their exclusive private school and Juliet and Lorna are forced to take sides, pushing their friendship to breaking point. As toxic secrets and lies ripple through the idyllic town, the facade starts to fracture, threatening to reveal the deep-seated elitism and ugliness lurking beneath.
Set in a private enclave in the Home Counties, the six-part series is described as a “provocative and deliciously honest look at mother/daughter relationships amidst the whirlwind of social media, hidden apps and relentless peer pressure that asks: how far will we go to protect our children? And just how much do teenage girls know about the women raising them? If the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, then who is leading these girls astray?”
The ensemble cast also includes Sophie Winkleman, Daniel Lapaine, Hayat Kamille, Isabelle Allen, James Murray, Jason York, Katarina Čas, Nathaniel Martello-White, Sonita Henry, Tara Webb, Will Bagnall and Hugh Quarshie.
Wild Cherry is produced by Firebird Pictures (The Jetty) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. It is written and created by Lecky with Toby MacDonald (Extraordinary) directing.
The executive producers are Elizabeth Kilgarriff, Craig Holleworth for Firebird Pictures, Lisa Walters, Lecky and Macdonald, with and Lucy Richer for the BBC. The producer is Ado Yoshizaki Cassuto. The series is currently filming in Surrey.
BBC Studios are distributing the series internationally.
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