Channel 4’s In Flight takes off with Katherine Kelly

TRAILER: Katherine Kelly stars in In Flight, a new crime thriller taking off on Channel 4 in the UK on Tuesday, August 12. Watch the trailer now.

Kelly (Mr Bates vs The Post Office) plays single mum and flight attendant Jo Conran, whose life is turned upside down when she is blackmailed into drug smuggling after her son is imprisoned in Bulgaria for a murder he swears he did not commit.

Stuart Martin (Rebel Moon) plays Cormac, a leading member of the criminal gang who coerces Jo into using her job to smuggle drugs, and Ashley Thomas (Them]) is Jo’s ex, customs officer Dom Delaney.

As Jo becomes ensnared in the murky underworld of corruption and hired killers, she is forced to carry out their orders while desperately trying to find a way out. She turns to her ex, Dom, for help however, no matter how far Jo finds herself from her old life, her mission remains the same, to keep her son alive.

The cast also includes Bronagh Waugh as Melanie, Harry Cadby as Sonny, Corinna Brown as Kayla and Ambreen Razia as Zara. The story takes place against the backdrop of locations including Bangkok, Bulgaria, Istanbul and London, with filming completed in Belfast.

Produced by Buccaneer Media (The Crow Girl, Marcella), the six-part series is written and co-created by Mike Walden (Marcella, Whitstable Pearl) and Adam Randall (Slow Horses, iBoy), produced by Brendan Mullin (Wreck, Dalgliesh) and directed by Chris Baugh (Wreck, Tin Star).

Executive producers are Anna Burns, Richard Tulk-Hart and Tony Wood for Buccaneer, Rebecca Dundon and Simon Judd for Fremantle, Mike Walden, Adam Randall, Katherine Kelly and Chris Baugh.

ProSieben have pre-bought the series for Germany along with SBS for Australia and TVNZ for New Zealand. Fremantle is handling global sales.

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