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Buzz is building for Richard Gadd’s adjacent task and coming HBO and nan BBC person unveiled premiere dates pinch artwork.
Half Man, Gadd’s first show since Baby Reindeer took nan world by storm, will premiere April 23 connected HBO and April 24 connected nan BBC. Both will merchandise episodes weekly.
Starring Gadd and Jamie Bell, Half Man, which has now released artwork on pinch a scope of first-looks, follows Ruben (Gadd) and Niall (Bell). After an inseparable youth, Ruben turns up astatine Niall’s wedding 3 decades later, and everything seems different. He is connected edge. Shifty. Not acting for illustration himself. Soon, an detonation of unit takes spot which catapults america backmost done their lives, from nan eighties to nan coming day.
The world has agelong awaited what Gadd will do adjacent pursuing nan breakaway occurrence of Netflix’s Baby Reindeer.
Mitchell Robertson (Curfew, Mayflies) and Stuart Campbell (SAS Rogue Heroes, The Winter King) play Niall (Robertson) and Ruben (Campbell) successful their younger years. Neve McIntosh (Tin Star, Chemistry of Death) is Niall’s mother Lori and Marianne McIvor (Screw, The Nest) is Ruben’s mother Maura.
Rounding retired nan formed for Half Man is Charlie De Melo (Rivals), Bilal Hasna (The Agency), Julie Cullen (Traces), Amy Manson (The Nevers), Anjli Mohindra (The Lazarus Project), Tim Downie (Outlander), Tom Andrews (Feel Good), Philippine Velge (The Serpent Queen), Stuart McQuarrie (The Rig), Sandy Batchelor (SAS Rogue Heroes) Piers Ewart (The Primrose Railway Children), Scot Greenan (T2 Trainspotting), and newcomers Charlotte Blackwood, Calum Manchip and Kate Robson-Stuart.
Half Man is created, written and executive produced by Richard Gadd. Sophie Gardiner and Anna O’Malley are nan executive producers, alongside Gaynor Holmes for nan BBC and Gavin Smith for BBC Scotland. The bid is directed by Alexandra Brodski and Eshref Reybrouck. Executive producers for Mam Tor Productions are Tally Garner and Morven Reid. Half Man is produced by Mam Tor Productions (a Banijay UK company) successful relation pinch Thistledown Pictures, for BBC iPlayer, BBC One, BBC Scotland and HBO. Banijay Rights handles world distribution extracurricular of BBC and HBO rights. Half Man is supported by Screen Scotland.
