EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lincoln is returning to British TV.
The Walking Dead star has landed his first function on this aspect of the pond for properly over a decade in an ITV thriller that he’ll produce titled Cold Water, which is penned by storied playwright David Ireland and produced by Eric outfit Sister. Fellow forged consists of Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting), Indira Varma (Obsession) and Eve Myles (Conserving Religion).
In Chilly Water, Lincoln will play John, a repressed man who who’s shocked to search out himself in center age, secretly raging at his life as a stay-at-home dad. He strikes to a backwater Scottish village and strikes up a friendship with subsequent door neighbor Tommy (Bremner), who’s despised by spouse Fiona (Varma). When her husband’s relationship with their enigmatic new neighbour turns into more and more intense, Fiona’s suspicions are aroused. She is unconvinced Tommy is all he appears to be.
Lincoln is finest identified for enjoying lead character Rick Grimes in AMC’s hit franchise The Strolling Useless, which just lately landed a deal with Sky in the UK. He starred within the post-apocalyptic horror sequence for eight years and reprised his function earlier this 12 months in spin-off The Strolling Useless: The Ones Who Stay. He got here up by British TV, touchdown early roles in BBC drama This Life and Channel 4 sitcom Academics, together with a star flip in Richard Curtis’ Love Really. His final British TV venture was Sky sequence Strike Again reverse Richard Armitage in 2010.
Chilly Water represents the most recent small display venture for Eire, who made his identify as an award-winning playwright but in addition penned Sky sequence The Lovers. He may be seen enjoying Sean Devlin in Channel 4 hit comedy Derry Women.
Sister’s debut ITV drama, Passenger, in the meantime, launched a number of weeks again. Jane Featherstone and Elisabeth Murdoch’s outfit’s newest sequence to hit the small display was Eric, a fantastical Netflix present starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Eire stated: “Chilly Water began with a query I used to be asking myself. The place do I wish to reside – the countryside or the town? Such an harmless starting, however from it got here this darkish, humorous, twisted thriller. And I’m amazed we’ve managed to draw such a peerless forged, led by the formidable Andrew Lincoln.”
ITV Head of Drama Polly Hill added: “David’s scripts are fantastic, and unique and have attracted an unbelievable forged led by Andrew Lincoln. It guarantees to be a very unmissable drama.”
The sequence will likely be govt produced by Chris Fry (Landscapers, Kaos), Alice Tyler (The Following Occasions are Primarily based on a Pack of Lies), Lydia Hampson (Fleabag, The Following Occasions are Primarily based on a Pack of Lies) and Jane Featherstone (Chernobyl, Eric) for Sister. Eire, Lincoln and Brian Coffey (Dinosaur, Our Women) will produce. ITV Studios will deal with worldwide distribution.
Additional casting and manufacturing particulars are but to be introduced with filming as a consequence of begin later in 2024.
Lincoln is represented by CAA, Vary Media Companions, Wolf Kasteler and lawyer Geoffry Oblath.
