U.K.’s Channel 4 Orders First Digital Original Drama, Sci-Fi Series ‘Beth’ Starring Nicholas Pinnock and Abbey Lee (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAlex Ritman British network Channel 4 has commissioned its first digital original drama. “Beth,” written and directed by Uzo Oleh (“Edicius”), is a three-part science fiction thriller starring Nicholas Pinnock (“This Town,” “The Book of Clarence”) and Abbey Lee (“Horizon: An American Saga,” “Mad Max: Fury Road”), that will broadcast on Channel 4’s YouTube, as well as its streaming and linear channel.
The series was executive produced by Anna Higgs and produced by Dark Pictures and GroupM Motion Entertainment. In “Beth,” Pinnock and Lee play Joe and Molly, a married couple who are deeply in love, successful in their careers and living the high life.
But one thing is missing — a child. So when Molly falls pregnant after years of false hope, it feels like a miracle. Months later, when their baby daughter, Imogen, is born, she’s as Caucasian as can be, with no resemblance to Joe, her father.
As Joe and Molly’s life is thrown into turmoil, Joe begins to unravel a shocking truth that rocks him, Molly and, potentially, the world to the core.
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