Alan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy have been solid within the second season of BBC and Tubi drama collection Boarders.
The Traitors host Cumming and EastEnders actress Cassidy will be a part of a solid together with leads Josh Tedeku, Jodie Campbell, Sekou Diaby, Myles Kamwendo and Aruna Jalloh within the coming-of-age collection about 5 gifted black inner-city teenagers who achieve scholarships to the celebrated St. Gilbert’s boarding faculty. Creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor stars within the collection
Cumming will play Alan, a person with excessive requirements of the scholars at St. Gilbert’s, and Cassidy will seem as Sharon Hail, a instructor at a rival faculty. Season two will start with a brand new performing headmistress, Carol Watlington-Geese, who needs the scholarship college students gone, simply as they’ve begun to thrive.
For Cumming, the casting is amongst his first since he struck a production deal with NBCUniversal in June last year on the again of the success of Peacock actuality collection The Traitors, which he hosts. All3Media-owed Studio Lambert, which produces The Traitors, makes Boarders for the BBC in co-production with Tubi and ZDFneo in affiliation with All3Media Worldwide.
“I’ve at all times stated that letting folks know you’re a fan of theirs is a good suggestion,” stated Cumming. “And, so it was with Boarders. I discussed this to the producers — who additionally occur to supply The Traitors — and really quickly after, I discovered myself on the set having such a enjoyable time.”
Returning solid contains Niky Wardley, Assa Kanouté, Tallulah Greive, Rosie Graham, Harry Gilby, Georgina Sadler, Zheng Xi Yong, Dillon Mitra, Archie Fisher, Andrew Harmon-Grey, Ruxandra Porojnicu, Kye Malcolm, Llewella Gideon, Mohammed Mansaray, Niyi Akin, Maxim Ays, Al Foran, William Andrews and Yuriri Naka. Beforehand introduced new solid are Wunmi Mosaku, Cara Theobold, Michael Salami and Kendra Brown, who performs an American trade pupil.
Boarders is created by Lawrence Taylor, who’s lead author, with Yemi Oyefuwa, Jeffrey Aidoo and Racheal Ofori writing further episodes. Joelle Mae David and Sarmad Masud are the administrators, with Ali MacPhail the producer and Carleen Beadle-Larcombe the road producer. Mykaell Riley returns as musical director. Government producers are Lawrence Taylor, Madeleine Sinclair for Studio Lambert, and Nawfal Faizullah and Katherine Bond for the BBC.
Season two launches on the BBC iPlayer and BBC Three subsequent month, earlier than rolling out on Tubi throughout North America and Latin America, and on ZDFneo in Germany. All3Media Worldwide has distribution rights.
