Published: 10:00 am, 23 April 2026
Updated: 01:10 pm, 23 April 2026
First-look pictures have been launched of California Avenue, a brand new drama from BAFTA Award-winning author and director Hugo Blick (The English, The Honourable Woman, Marion and Geoff) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
The sequence encompasses a stellar solid of Bill Nighy (Living, About Time), Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown, Nolly), Erin Doherty (The Crown, Adolescence) and Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Souvenir), who’re joined by Kate Robbins (After Life, Unforgotten), Paul Kaye (Small Prophets, Shardlake) and newcomer Cammie Liebreich.
Produced by Drama Republic (a Mediawan firm), makers of One Day and Doctor Foster, California Avenue is a narrative brimming with humour and love.
Set in the Nineteen Seventies in a secluded canal-side caravan park deep in the luscious English countryside, its peace is irrevocably disrupted by the arrival of Lela (Erin Doherty) and her 11-year-old baby, Bee (Cammie Liebreich), each on the run, wanting for refuge on this hidden world. It is right here {that a} fractured household will come collectively, ghosts of the previous will firmly be put to relaxation and an surprising love is cast.
Bill Nighy and Helena Bonham Carter star as Jerry and Eddie, Lela’s dad and mom, ballroom champions of the Nineteen Thirties who grew to become wartime runaways and are nonetheless hiding, three many years on, whereas Tom Burke co-stars as fairground outcast, Cooper, whose turbulent previous will explode into California Avenue.
Kate Robbins performs Priscilla, the formidable power operating the caravan website alongside her husband, website supervisor and jack-of-all-trades, Kevin, performed by Paul Kaye.
The sequence is the newest collaboration between Hugo Blick, Drama Republic, Eight Rooks and the BBC following The English, The Honourable Woman and Black Earth Rising.
California Avenue is created, written, and directed by Hugo Blick. The producer is Colin Wratten (The English, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth), and the government producers are Hugo Blick for Eight Rooks, Greg Brenman for Drama Republic, Bill Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, and Lucy Richer for the BBC.
The sequence is produced by Drama Republic, a Mediawan firm, and Eight Rooks. California Avenue might be distributed worldwide by Mediawan Rights with the participation of Entourage Ventures.
California Avenue might be obtainable to watch on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
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