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Michaela Coel To Create & Star In Drama Series ‘First Day On Earth’ For HBO & BBC
I May Destroy You’s Michaela Coel is teaming up with HBO and the BBC on her next drama series. Coel is writing and starring in First Day On Earth, a ten-part series that she describes as “another very personal story for me”. It comes four years after I May Destroy You launched on the WBD […]
So, when she’s offered a job on a film in Ghana, West Africa – her parents’ homeland, where her estranged father lives – she can’t resist the chance to reconnect with him and the country of her heritage. But when she arrives neither the job nor her father turn out the way she expected, and soon Henri has to deal with danger and hypocrisy, form new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a new sense of identity – one that might leave her stronger, but could also break her. The series comes from Various Artists, which was founded by Succession’s Jesse Armstrong, his PeepShow collaborator Sam Bain and former Channel 4 commissioners Phil Clarke and Roberto Troni, and A24.
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