The BBC has confirmed the total solid for Expensive England, a four-part drama based mostly on James Graham’s Olivier Award-winning play about Gareth Southgate and the England males’s soccer workforce. Dr. Who star Jodie Whittaker, The Crown alum Jason Watkins, and British actor Daniel Ryan (The Bay) are new additions to the ensemble solid.
Shakespeare in Love and The Handmaid’s Story actor Joseph Fiennes will reprise his stage position as Gareth Southgate, the England supervisor who took over a workforce with a traditionally poor file in penalty shootouts. Whittaker will play workforce psychologist Pippa Grange. Watkins will painting former Soccer Affiliation chairman Greg Dyke. Ryan performs former assistant supervisor Steve Holland.
A number of solid members from the play will reprise their roles for TV, together with John Hodgkinson, returning as former FA chairman Greg Clarke, Adam Hugill enjoying Harry Maguire, Josh Barrow as Jordan Pickford, and Lewis Shepherd as Dele Alli.
Different solid members embrace Will Antenbring as Harry Kane, Edem-Ita Duke as Marcus Rashford, Francis Lovehall as Raheem Sterling, Abdul Sessay as Bukayo Saka, and Jacob Greenway as Jude Bellingham.
Billed as a fictional account of actual occasions, based mostly on intensive analysis and interviews, Expensive England debuted on the Nationwide Theatre in 2023 to vital acclaim, successful the Olivier Award for greatest new play.
James Graham serves as author and govt producer on the sequence. Rupert Goold, who directed the stage model, will direct the primary episode, with Paul Whittington directing episodes two via 4. Tina Pawlik is producing. Govt producers embrace Graham and Goold, Andy Harries and Rebecca Hodgson for Left Financial institution Photos, and Jo McClellan and Sami El-Hadi for the BBC.
Produced by Left Financial institution Photos, filming is now underway within the South of England. The sequence will premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in 2026. Sony Photos Tv will deal with worldwide distribution.