First look at BBC One's new legal drama The Split
The first images have been released for a major original series coming to BBC One and SundanceTV next year.
Set in the "fast-paced, emotionally-charged world of divorce law", The Split centres on the Defoes, a family of female lawyers working in London's divorce circuit.
[Nicola Walker's Hannah]
Hannah Defoe (Nicola Walker, Last Tango in Halifax), her sister Nina (Annabel Scholey, Being Human) and their mother Ruth (Deborah Findlay, Cranford) deal with disastrous relationships and scandalous affairs at work while also trying to navigate their own complicated lives at home.
New additions to the stellar cast include Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Anthony Head, Mathew Baynton of The Wrong Mans, Tanya Franks of Pulling, Our Girl'sRudi Dharmalingam,BAFTA-winning Chanel Cresswell of This is England, Tamara Lawrance of King Charles III and Claire Rushbrook of My Mad Fat Diary .
Stephen Mangan, Meera Syal, Fiona Button, Barry Atsma and Stephen Tompkinson were previously announced as cast members.
[Nicola Walker and Annabel Scholey]
The six-part series is written by BAFTA and Primetime Emmy winner Abi Morgan, whose previous credits include Suffragette and River, and directed by Jessica Hobbs (Broadchurch, Apple Tree Yard, The Slap).
The first new series from BAFTA-winning Jane Featherstone's Sister Pictures, it's expected to air in 2018 on BBC One and SundanceTV.
Another six-part BBC drama series on the horizon is Luther creator Neil Cross's Hard Sun, which follows two cops – Robert Hicks (Jim Sturgess) and Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) – who discover that the world is going to end due to that great big gas ball we have in the sky.
We're also excited about the new Little Women adaptation on BBC One, which is airing this Christmas along with all these shows.
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