Adolescence star’s new BBC drama gets exciting first look

The six-part show's cast also includes Bill Nighy and Helena Bonham Carter.

Also featuring Bill Nighy (About Time, Living) and Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, The Crown), the six-part series is set in the 1970s in a secluded canal-side caravan park deep in the luscious English countryside.

This peace, however, is irrevocably disrupted by the arrival of Lela (Doherty) and her 11-year-old child, Bee (newcomer Cammie Liebreich), both on the run, looking for refuge in this hidden world.

"It is here that a fractured family will come together, ghosts of the past will firmly be put to rest, and an unexpected love is forged," the BBC plot synopsis adds.

Nighy and Bonham Carter, meanwhile, will play Jerry and Eddie, Lela’s parents, ballroom champions of the 1930s who became wartime runaways and are still hiding, three decades on.

Also starring in the series are Tom Burke (Black Bag) as Cooper, a fairground outcast with a turbulent past, Kate Robbins (Restless) as Priscilla, the formidable force running the caravan site, and Paul Kaye (Small Prophets) as Priscilla's husband Kevin, a site manager and jack-of-all-trades.

Created, written, and directed by Blick (also known for making the shows The Honourable Woman and The Shadow Line), California Avenue will air on BBC One.

A release date has not been confirmed yet. You can check out more new images from the series on the BBC's website.

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