Michelle Keegan cast as the lead of Stan’s Original drama series Ten Pound Poms

If you are trying to take a step again in time to life after World War II, then we have now a present to maintain in your radar.

Stan and the BBC’s have introduced a co-production for Ten Pound Poms, a six-part drama sequence that will probably be produced by Eleven, the identical firm who created Sex Education. The sequence will premiere on Stan later this 12 months.

Michelle Keegan (Brassic, Our Girl) has been introduced because the lead.

Currently filming in New South Wales, the solid additionally contains Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones, Black Mirror) and Warren Brown (The Responder, Luther), alongside Australian actors Rob Collins (Mystery Road, Firebite), Leon Ford (Elvis, The Light Between Oceans), Declan Coyle (Long Black, Life of Jess), David Field (Shantaram, Preacher), Stephen Curry (Hounds of Love, The Castle), Hattie Hook (Savage River, Of An Age), Finn Treacy (The Portable Door, Young Rock) and Emma Hamilton (The Tudors, Mr Selfridge).

Ten Pound Poms is directed by Jamie Stone and Australia’s Ana Kokkinos (Fires, The Hunting).

First have a look at 10 Pound Poms

Stan has launched the primary look footage of the six-part sequence.

Click beneath to see a sneak peek of the solid and excellent costumes from the sequence, which relies on true occasions in Australia’s historical past.

The Stan Original Series is a compelling, character-driven household drama, following a gaggle of Brits as they go away post-war Britain in 1956 in quest of a greater life in Australia.

But their new life is not fairly as straightforward as they’d hoped for.

At the guts of the drama are Annie (Faye Marsay) and Terry Roberts (Warren Brown).

They attempt to make the perfect of the scenario for his or her household, however the poor residing situations on the migrant hostel and native attitudes in the direction of immigrants check them in methods they could not have imagined.

They aren’t the one folks on the hostel avoiding the reality. Kate (Michelle Keegan) is a younger nurse who arrives with out her fiancé and can do no matter it takes to try to rewrite her devastating previous.

Bill (Leon Ford) has misplaced his household business again dwelling and is so determined to show he is residing the Australian dream that he’ll cease at nothing as a way to get a way of life he cannot maintain.

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Teenager Stevie (Declan Coyle) comes from a troubled background and hopes to make use of this new journey to flee his oppressive father. Meanwhile, Ron (Rob Collins), an Indigenous Australian battle veteran, struggles with feeling like an outsider in his personal nation.

“Ten Pounds Poms demands an ensemble cast that we are always rooting for, actors we love and want to succeed. I am thrilled to have found those actors. It is a delight to welcome so much exciting Australian talent as well as working with the brilliant Faye and Warren for the first time. This is my third outing with the wonderful Michelle Keegan and I’m positive we will make another winner together,” screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst mentioned.

“Ten Pounds Poms is a big bold character piece about what it means to start again, to be an outsider in a new land. It asks questions about success and failure, identity, parenthood and belonging.”

“The assisted migration programme is a little-known part of British and Australian history but offers endless stories about the people who travelled to the other side of the world in search of a better life. I couldn’t be more delighted to be making the show with the BBC, Eleven and Stan.”

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Eleven’s govt producer Joel Wilson has known as it “a huge privilege” to be working with Danny on the brand new sequence.

“We are both deeply passionate about the stories of the hundreds of thousands who took part in the assisted migration scheme, and I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to share them with audiences on the BBC and Stan,” he mentioned.

Nine Entertainment Co (the writer of this web site) owns and operates the streaming service Stan.