House of the Dragon's Eve Best including Grease and The Good Wife actress Stockard Channing are set to join Suranne Jones (Gentleman Jack, Vigil, Doctor Foster) in a brand new upcoming drama titled Maryland. The three-part ITVX series will see Eve and Suranne play estranged sisters who travel from Manchester to the Isle of Man to repatriate their mother’s body - which was found at sunrise on Laxey Beach - and discover family secrets along the way.
The drama, which will be filmed in Ireland, is said by ITV to focus "on the relationship between two sisters" with Suranne playing down-to-earth mother of two Becca and Eve starring as disciplined high-flyer Rosaline. Whilst confined on the Isle of Man, the sisters discover some "shocking information about their mother and find it impossible to escape the ripple effect of her secrets and lies".
The mini-series will see US actress Stockard, play Cathy, the sister's mum’s friend on the island and will also star Hugh Quarshie (Stephen, Riches), Dean Lennox Kelly (Tom Jones, Jamestown) and Andrew Knott (Ackley Bridge, Tin Star). Gentleman Jack and Happy Valley actor George Costigan will play the sisters’ father, Richard, who stays behind in Manchester.
