The Responder creator Tony Schumacher has landed his next project, a BBC series from Element Pictures about two people robbing from the same Liverpool casino and the collision course this sets off.
Michael Socha (The Gallows Pole) and Sheridan Smith (The C Word) are leading The Cage as Matty and Leanne, who quickly get in trouble with the local gangster and the police, as the five-parter turns into a high-stakes, high energy crime story set in Liverpool.
The show is the second BBC thriller project set in Liverpool this year following Left Bank’s This City is Ours, which launched last night.
Schumacher is a former policeman who created The Responder, the Martin Freeman-starring police drama that has been critically lauded.
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