Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd is back for his first drama since the multi-award winning Netflix series.
‘Violent’ first-look at Baby Reindeer creator’s new BBC thriller(Image: BBC)
BBC is set to release an “intense” drama that explores “brotherhood, violence and the fragility of male relationships”.
In 2024, Netflix subscribers went mad for Richard Gadd ’s gripping drama Baby Reindeer revolving around a comedian dealing with his obsessive female stalker.
Now, two years on, Richard Gadd is back for the first time since the Netflix hit’s release with the BBC revealing details for its upcoming drama Half Man.
Filming for the original six-part drama wrapped up last year in and around Glasgow with the series set to launch in April on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and on HBO Max in the US.
Gadd will star in Half Man alongside BAFTA winning actor Jamie Bell, famed for All of Us Strangers and Rocket Man, with the pair portraying Ruben and Niall, respectively.
The official synopsis reads: “Niall and Ruben are brothers. Not related in blood but the closest you can get. One, fierce and loyal. The other, meek and mild-mannered. Inseparable youth.
“Brought into each other’s lives through death and circumstance, all they have is each other…
“But when Ruben turns up at Niall’s wedding three decades later, everything seems different.
“He is on edge. Shifty. Not acting like himself. And soon, an explosion of violence takes place which catapults us back through their lives, from the eighties to the present day.”
Half Man, which has been created and written by Gadd, will follow Ruben and Niall throughout the past 30 years of their lives, exploring “brotherhood, violence and the intense fragility of male relationships”.
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The synopsis concludes: “After all, when things fall apart… it is sometimes the closest relationships which break the hardest.”
Gadd and Bell aren’t the only familiar faces starring in Half Man either with an abundance of other familiar faces joining the cast.
These include SAS Rogue Heroes actor Stuart Campbell, Rivals’ Charlie De Melo, The Nevers star Amy Manson, Outlander actor Tim Downie and T2 Trainspotting’s Scot Greenan, to name just a few.
Half Man will debut in April on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.