3 weeks ago
Cush Jumbo, Adelayo Adedayo, Deborah Ayorinde and Susan Wokoma are starring nan formed of Wahala, the BBC adjustment of nan Nikki May caller from Rocks director Theresa Ikoko.
The show weaves betwixt 4 Nigerian-British women successful their thirties, navigating careers, emotion and family successful coming time London.
Adedayo (The Responder, Supacell), Jumbo (Criminal Record, The Young People) and Wokoma (Cheaters, Enola Holmes) play Simi, Boo and Ronke, champion friends who person shared each facet of life for years. Their cautiously balanced world is disrupted erstwhile Isobel, played by Ayorinde (Them, Nine Bodies successful a Mexican Morgue) a charismatic and super-wealthy caller acquaintance, enters their orbit.
The 4 are joined by Nigerian surface icon Genevieve Nnaji. Ikoko co-wrote Rocks, the critically-acclaimed coming-of-age play that earned her a BAFTA nomination.
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, said: “Theresa’s scripts for Wahala are an absolute joyousness – riveting, afloat of rich | and analyzable characters, and everything you’d want from Nikki May’s exquisite book brought vividly to life connected screen. It’s nary astonishment that it’s attracted a formed of this magnificent calibre.”
Wahala is executive produced by Nawfal Faizullah for nan BBC, Elizabeth Kilgarriff and Craig Holleworth for Firebird Pictures and Ikoko. The board are Leonora Lonsdale, Ikoko and Remi Weekes and nan shaper is Ado Yoshizaki Cassuto. BBC Studios will grip world sales.
