EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lincoln is returning to British TV.
The Strolling Useless star has landed his first function on this aspect of the pond for effectively over a decade in an ITV thriller that he’ll produce titled Chilly Water, which is penned by storied playwright David Eire and produced by Eric outfit Sister. Fellow solid contains Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting), Indira Varma (Obsession) and Eve Myles (Protecting Religion).
In Chilly Water, Lincoln will play John, a repressed man who who’s shocked to seek 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 cope with Sky within the UK. He starred within the post-apocalyptic horror collection for eight years and reprised his function earlier this yr in spin-off The Strolling Useless: The Ones Who Reside. 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 collection Strike Again reverse Richard Armitage in 2010.
Chilly Water represents the most recent small display screen venture for Eire, who made his title as an award-winning playwright but additionally penned Sky collection The Lovers. He may be seen taking part in Sean Devlin in Channel 4 hit comedy Derry Ladies.
Sister’s debut ITV drama, Passenger, in the meantime, launched a number of weeks again. Jane Featherstone and Elisabeth Murdoch’s outfit’s newest collection to hit the small display screen was Eric, a fantastical Netflix present starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Eire mentioned: “Chilly Water began with a query I used to be asking myself. The place do I need to dwell – 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 solid, led by the formidable Andrew Lincoln.”
ITV Head of Drama Polly Hill added: “David’s scripts are great, and unique and have attracted an unimaginable solid led by Andrew Lincoln. It guarantees to be a extremely unmissable drama.”
The collection will likely be government produced by Chris Fry (Landscapers, Kaos), Alice Tyler (The Following Occasions are Based mostly on a Pack of Lies), Lydia Hampson (Fleabag, The Following Occasions are Based mostly 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 legal professional Geoffry Oblath.