Onyx Collective, Channel 4 Picks Up Candice Carty-Williams’ ‘Queenie,’ Dionne Brown, Samuel Adewunmi, Bellah Attached to Star
variety.comBreAnna Bell Onyx Collective and Channel 4 have placed a straight-to-series order for Candice Carty-Williams’ “Queenie.” The eight-episode series will be available on Channel 4 in the U.K.
and the Republic of Ireland and will stream exclusively on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America, and Disney+ in all other territories. “Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in south London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither.
After a messy breakup with her long-term boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places and begins to realize she has to face the past head-on before she can rebuild,” reads the logline.
The series is based on Carty-Williams’ best-selling novel. Dionne Brown will lead the cast as Queenie. She’ll be joined by Samuel Adewunmi as Frank, and Bellah as Kyazike.
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