Paramount+ sets Curfew

Paramount+ sets Curfew


By Michael Pickard
August 12, 2024

First Look

FIRST LOOK: Sarah Parish stars in Curfew, a six-part alternative reality thriller set in a world where all men live under a curfew. It will launch on Paramount+ in the UK later this year.

Based on Jayne Cowie’s novel After Dark, the story takes place at a time when The Women’s Safety Act decrees that men abide by a curfew from 7pm to 7am every night, with their movements tracked by an ankle tag 24 hours a day.

When a woman’s body is discovered brutally murdered during curfew hours and left on the steps of the Women’s Safety Centre, veteran Police officer Pamela Green (Parish) believes that a man is responsible. But in a world where men are bound by the curfew system, her theory is rejected.

The introduction of The Women’s Safety Act almost three years earlier is widely considered as effective at protecting women, who have been able to go out at night without looking over their shoulders, and nobody wants to hear different.

If Pamela proves a man committed this murder, it could bring The Women’s Safety Act crashing down… people in high places are determined to make the curfew a success and will do all it takes to prevent Pamela from discovering the truth.

Mitchell Robertson (Mayflies) plays rookie cop Eddie, shadowing Pamela on his first murder investigation. Mandip Gill (Doctor Who) joins the cast as Sarah, an employee at the local Women’s Safety Centre at the heart of Pamela and Eddie’s investigation. Alexandra Burke (Sister Act) also appears as Helen, a well intentioned local school teacher, advocator for the curfew and close friend of Sarah’s.

The cast also includes Lucy Benjamin (Detectorists), Larry Lamb (Gavin and Stacey), Bobby Brazier (EastEnders), Anita Dobson (EastEnders) Tommy McDonnell (Alice & Jack), Adam Korson (This Is Us), Amy Louise Pemberton (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), Imogen Sandhu (Casualty), James Craven (Coronation Street), Selorm Adonu (Man to Man) and newcomer Raphael D’Alterio.

Joasia Goldyn (Britannia) is the series director, whilst Lydia Yeoman (The Haze) is the lead writer. Joining Yeoman in the writing team is Jess Green (EastEnders), who will write episode three, and Sumerah Srivastav (Manifest) will write episode five. Allan Niblo, Jane Moore and Nathalie Peter-Contesse are executive producers on the series for Vertigo Films, which produces in association with Evolutionary Films.

John Adams (Damaged) is the producer with Diane Shorthouse (Cyberbully) as coproducer.

The series will debut on Paramount+ in the UK this autumn, whilst Federation Studios will handle global sales.

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