Federation Studios Boards Cape Town-Set ‘The Morning After’ With Rising British Star Amara Okereke, Unveils Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Federation Studios has acquired distribution rights to “The Morning After,” an eight-part comedy series headlined by up-and-coming British actor Amara Okereke (“In the Lost Lands”).
It filmed on location in Cape Town in South Africa. The show is produced by Paris-based company Paradoxal and Cape Town-based outfit Both Worlds, which previously partnered on “Recipes for Love and Murder.” The series is co-produced by SWR, ARD FabFiction and Prime Video Africa. “The Morning After” will premiere in Sub-Saharan Africa on Prime Video and in Germany on ARD’s SVOD service Mediatek.
Okereke stars in the series opposite a young local ensemble including Gaosi Raditholo, Carmen Pretorius, Richard Gau, Tarryn Wyngaard and Danica Jones.Created by Thierry Cassuto and Karen Jeynes, “The Morning After” tells the story of 25-year-old Birmingham party girl Nina Morgan, who wakes up naked on a beach in Cape Town about 6,000 miles from home.
She’s rescued by local misfits who help her exact revenge. Each episode of the series starts “the morning after” with a bombshell moment, then steps back to discover how our characters ended up here.
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