Manori Ravindran International EditorChannel 4 drama “Help,” starring Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham, has been picked up by Acorn TV for the U.S., Variety can reveal.The critically acclaimed single drama, written by “His Dark Materials” and “Enola Holmes” writer Jack Thorne, will premiere on the service in the U.S.
and Canada in early 2022.“Help” is a searing commentary on the U.K. government’s response to care homes during the worst of the country’s COVID-19 crisis in 2020.
Comer plays a new nurse at a care facility, where Graham’s character Tony is a patient with early onset Alzheimer’s.When the pandemic hits, the home is bereft of personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff, and overloaded with ill patients from hospitals without any.
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