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Starz will motorboat its Rebecca Hall-starring BBC play ‘The Listeners‘ connected June 12.
The series, which stars Hall (Resurrection, Christine) arsenic a celebrated English coach who abruptly originates to perceive a persistent debased hum that no-one other tin hear, runs to 5 parts. You tin spot a trailer above.
The bid comes from Fremantle’s Element Pictures, and was primitively for nan BBC successful nan UK. In nan U.S., it will watercourse play opn Fridays connected nan Starz app and different Starz streaming platforms.
Per nan synopsis, The Listeners: “Claire hears a sound that neither her hubby nor her girl tin hear. This seemingly innocuous hum triggers migraines, nosebleeds and insomnia, pinch nary evident root aliases aesculapian explanation. After weeks of suffering, nan strain starts to fracture her relationships pinch family, friends and colleagues.
“When she discovers that a student of hers tin besides perceive nan hum, nan 2 onslaught up an improbable and friendly relationship that gradually transforms into thing much extreme, pinch devastating consequences.”
Alongside Hall, The Listeners stars Prasanna Puwanarajah (The Crown, Payback”), Ollie West (The Sparrow), Mia Tharia (Phoenix Rise), Amr Waked (Lucy) and Gayle Rankin (The Greatest Showman, GLOW).
The Listeners is written by Jordan Tannahill, who wrote nan caller connected which nan bid is based, and directed by Janicza Bravo (Zola, The Bear). Both besides service arsenic executive producers, alongside Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann and Rachel Dargavel for Element Pictures, Rebecca Ferguson for nan BBC and Alice Birch. Ed King is nan shaper and Fremantle handles world sales.
The Listeners aired connected nan BBC astir 18 months ago, but nan Starz woody – struck successful January – is grounds that American buyers still want to support their services populated pinch British content. The BBC and Starz person collaborated successful nan past connected dramas like The Missing and Dublin Murders.
