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Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki) is starring a BBC sci-fi play astir abstraction travel.
Mbatha-Raw will prima alongside Stuart Martin (Army of Thieves, In Flight, Rebel Moon) and Iain De Caestecker (Roadkill, The Winter King, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) successful Sutherland, which is group successful a adjacent early successful nan acold northbound of Scotland.
Mbatha-Raw is Mirren, who useful at Paravel Space Hub as formation head for nan UK’s first crewed ngo to nan stars. Everything is going to scheme when, conscionable hours aft launch, a bid of unexplained events engulf Sutherland successful enigma and risks destroying everything Mirren’s been striving for.
The show is timely, coming a fewer days aft nan Artemis II rocket returned from nan moon. Apple TV, meanwhile, is soon to motorboat Soviet abstraction play Star City.
Line of Duty producer World Productions is delving into nan sci-fi world by producing Sutherland. It is created by All Her Fault scribe James Smythe.
Sutherland is produced by World Productions successful relation pinch ITV Studios, which will administer nan bid internationally. The bid was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, and Louise Thornton, Head of Commissioning for BBC Scotland. It is written by Smythe, Laura Grace, Tom Mair and Helen Kingston, and directed by Chloë Wicks and Patrick Harkins. The shaper is Clare Kerr. The executive producers are Jake Lushington, Simon Heath and George Aza-Selinger for World Productions Scotland, Gaynor Holmes for nan BBC, Gavin Smith for BBC Scotland, and Smythe. The bid is supported by Screen Scotland.
Filming connected nan bid will return spot successful Scotland later this twelvemonth and further casting will beryllium announced in owed course.
