BBC has released a new trailer for Dennis Kelly’s Liverpool drama, Waiting For The Out.
Starring Josh Finan, the 6-parter was adapted from Andy West’s acclaimed memoir The Life Inside, by multi-award-winning writer Kelly (Together, Utopia, Matilda The Musical).
Starting on January 3rd, it’s produced by SISTER (Black Doves, This Is Going to Hurt, Chernobyl) with filming in and around Liverpool wrapping earlier this year.
Finan (The Responder) stars as Dan, a philosopher who begins teaching a class of men in prison.
However, through his work, he begins to dig deeper into his own past – growing up with a father (Gerard Kearns) who ended up in prison, as did his brother Lee (Stephen Wight) and uncle Frank (Phil Daniels).
He starts to worry, obsessively, that he belongs behind bars just like his father.
Also starring in the series are Samantha Spiro (Sex Education) who plays Dan’s mother, alongside Alex Ferns (Andor), Francis Lovehall (A Thousand Blows), Josef Altin (Top Boy), Steven Meo (House of the Dragon), Ric Renton (One Off), Tom Moutchi (Gladiator II), Nima Taleghani (Heartstopper), Sule Rimi (The Day of the Jackal) and Charlie Rix (Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power).
It was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama. It’s directed by Jeanette Nordahl (The Responder) and Ben Palmer (Douglas is Cancelled), with Louise Sutton (Black Mirror) and Ken Horn (Line of Duty) serving as producers.
The executive producers are Dennis Kelly, Jane Featherstone (Black Doves, This is Going to Hurt), Chris Fry (Coldwater, Black Doves), Katie Carpenter (Kaos, Landscapers) and Andy West for SISTER, and Tanya Qureshi for the BBC.
