West Country star Daisy May Cooper has been announced in the cast of a new show which was filmed in Bristol. Rain Dogs, which has recently wrapped its Bristol shoot, will see a dysfunctional, unconventional family on the fringes of society, attempting to go straight in a crooked world.
The show, co-produced by BBC and HBO, charts an unconventional love story between a working-class single mum, her 10-year-old daughter, and a privileged gay man. The dark comedy stars Daisy May Cooper, Jack Farthing, Ronke Adekoluejo, Adrian Edmondson and Fleur Tashjian, in her debut role.
The award-winning actor and writer from This Country has recently met success with the new BBC series Am I Being Unreasonable? Cooper both co-wrote and starred in the comedy thriller, which was filmed in Bristol last year, alongside her real-life best friend Selin Hizli. It is not yet known when the show will air.
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The Cotswold-based star has thanked fans for their positive response to her new TV series Am I Being Unreasonable? And in a series of interviews, she has been brutally honest about how it was inspired by her shock marriage break-up.
Cooper recently confirmed there will be another series of her Cotswolds-based TV series This Country in the future once she has finished grieving for her friend. The final episode of the third series was aired on March 23, 2020 and showed cousins Kerry and Kurtain saying an emotional goodbye to the vicar, a central character in the show as he prepared to take on another parish in Bristol.
Rain Dogs is the first show created by Sid Wild, a Bristol incarnation of the award-winning production company Sid Gentle Films, majority owned by BBC Studios and famous for producing Killing Eve. Its new Bristol base is located at The Bottle Yard Studios.
Bristol has seen a boom in television productions this year, with The Outlaws, The Girl Before, Chloe and Showtrial all being filmed in the city. Earlier this week, Bristol Film Office confirmed that film and high-end TV productions filmed at The Bottle Yard and on location in Bristol generated £20.8 million for Bristol’s economy in the 2021-22 financial year, the highest recorded total in a decade.
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