She’ll play rookie detective Ember Manning within the new four-part sequence.
Information of a lot of new exhibits have emerged from the Edinburgh TV Competition. The newest to catch our eye is The Jetty, starring Jenna Coleman. She leads the present as rookie detective Ember Manning, who investigates a hearth at a Lancashire vacation dwelling.
The four-hour thriller reunites Coleman with govt producer Elizabeth Kilgarriff of Firebird Photos. The pair labored collectively on the upcoming Wilderness for Prime TV, in addition to The Serpent and The Cry.
Right here’s the synopsis for The Jetty:
Within the four-part sequence, for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, a hearth tears by a vacation dwelling in a scenic Lancashire lake city. Detective Ember Manning should work out the way it connects to a podcast journalist investigating a lacking individuals chilly case and a bootleg ‘love’ triangle between a person in his twenties and two underage women.
However as Ember will get near the reality, it threatens to destroy her life – forcing her to re-evaluate all the things she thought she knew about her previous, current and the city she’s all the time referred to as dwelling.
As a lot a coming-of-age story as a detective thriller, The Jetty asks large questions on sexual morality, id and reminiscence, within the locations that Me Too has left behind.
Jenna Coleman says:
“I’m delighted to be returning to the BBC to be part of The Jetty, with Firebird Photos on the helm, bringing the story of Ember Manning to life. I look ahead to exploring Cat Jones’ darkly probing scripts, alongside Marialy Rivas’ eloquent imaginative and prescient.”
Author and creator Cat Jones (Harlots) says:
“I’m thrilled to be making The Jetty for BBC One. Like thousands and thousands of individuals all around the world, I’ve grown up loving and admiring BBC dramas, so attending to create one actually is a dream come true. The Jetty is a narrative I’ve wished to inform for a very long time but it surely wasn’t till it discovered its champions on the fantastically author pleasant Firebird, that it actually got here to life. What appears like a complete dream group continues to develop with the addition of Marialy Rivas to direct and the sensible Jenna Coleman. I’ve little doubt audiences are going to be utterly transfixed by her as Ember.”
Govt producer Elizabeth Kilgarriff says:
“Provocative, thrilling and deliciously shocking at each flip, Cat’s lovely scripts promise to take the viewers on a rollercoaster journey the place nothing is sort of because it appears. To have the chance to work with Jenna once more – and see her carry our advanced, humorous and completely human heroine Ember to life on BBC One, couldn’t be extra thrilling – and I can’t wait to see the visible magic that the sensible Marialy Rivas weaves as this highly effective and gripping story unfolds.”
The Jetty comes from Firebird Photos, one in every of BBC Studios’ owned manufacturing labels. The author is Cat Jones, the director is Marialy Rivas. Govt producers are Elizabeth Kilgarriff, Sarah Wyatt, Cat Jones, Marialy Rivas, Jenna Coleman and Jo McClellan for the BBC.
We’ll maintain you posted.