Sophie Okonedo, Peter Firth, Aidan Gillen and Lesley Manville are to star in a new BBC 1 thriller from indie Kudos called Mayday.

According to the BBC, Mayday is “a five-part thriller from writers Ben Court and Caroline Ip (Whitechapel)”. It centres on the story of a young girl who goes missing on her way to a Mayday parade. As her local community reels from the girl”s disappearance, “the drama follows the mass hysteria and ensuing search from the point of view of the central characters, each of whom fears that someone they know is responsible. As they keep silent, their suspicions intensify during the five episodes”.

Kudos CEO Jane Featherstone says Mayday is: “A highly authored serial which has attracted a brilliant cast and takes an original look at a familiar story. There are no police incident rooms, autopsies or crime scene investigations, instead this is about a town facing the reality that the killer is among them, one of them.”

Mayday was commissioned by Ben Stephenson, Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning, and Danny Cohen, Controller, BBC 1. Jane Featherstone will executive produce for Kudos with Polly Hill for the BBC. The director is Brian Welsh (Black Mirror) and producer Chris Fry (Spooks). Filming starts this week in Dorking, Surrey.

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