Michaela Coel To Create & Star In Drama Series ‘First Day On Earth’ For HBO & BBC
deadline.comI 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 network and the British public broadcaster. Coel will star as British novelist Henri, who is stuck.
Work has dried up, her relationship is going nowhere. 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.
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