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Paramount+ has bought Wild Cherry, the spooky BBC bid from Nicôle Lecky, 1 of nan UK’s astir breathtaking creatives.
Wild Cherry stars The Penguin’s Carmen Ejogo and House of nan Dragon‘s Eve Best pinch 2 kids calved into a world of wealthiness and bully fortune.
Life is cleanable successful this luxurious haven until their daughters are implicated successful a shocking scandal. As toxic secrets ripple done nan idyllic municipality while Lorna and Juliet are forced to return sides, cracks shape successful nan community, shattering its cleanable image.
The bid will aerial connected Paramount+ successful nan U.S., Canada, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and Latin America from June 24.
Lecky is nan creator of BBC bid Mood, which won her 2 BAFTAs. Wild Cherry rated and reviewed good successful nan UK erstwhile it aired past year. Speaking to Deadline a twelvemonth ago, Lecky said nan show which deals pinch themes astir people and nan ace rich | was much sellable to nan States than Mood.
Lecky besides stars successful Mood, alongside Imogen Faires (Goldie’s Oldies, Marcella), Amelia May and BAFTA Award® winner Nicôle Lecky (Mood, Sweetpea), who created and executive produced nan series
The series’ ensemble formed is comprised of Sophie Winkleman (Peep Show, Sanditon), Daniel Lapaine (Catastrophe), Hayat Kamille (Vikings: Valhalla), Isabelle Allen (Les Misérables), James Murray (The Crown), Jason York (Mood), Katarina Čas (The Wolf of Wall Street), Nathaniel Martello-White (The Winter King), Sonita Henry (Black Cake), Tara Webb (Phoenix Rise), Will Bagnall (A Thousand Blows) and Hugh Quarshie (Holby City).
Wild Cherry is produced by Firebird Pictures, 1 of BBC Studios’ owned accumulation labels. The bid is written and created by Nicôle Lecky, with Toby MacDonald (Extraordinary, Fifteen-Love) directing. In summation to Lecky, executive producers include Elizabeth Kilgarriff, Craig Holleworth for Firebird Pictures, Lisa Walters, Toby MacDonald and Lucy Richer for the BBC. Ado Yoshizaki Cassuto serves arsenic producer. BBC Studios handles world sales.
