The Gathering from Line of Responsibility producer World Productions has been axed by Channel 4 after one season.
Helen Walsh’s sequence a few violent assault on a teenage lady throughout a rave has continuously been touted by Channel 4 execs as a significant streaming success for the community. Exec Simon Well being instructed The Solar it “carried out very properly for Channel 4 however there are new folks in cost and new priorities.”
Starring Boiling Level’s Vinette Robinson and younger up-and-comers Eva Morgan and Sadie Soverall, the present centered on a violent assault on a teenage lady in a tidal islet. Set on Merseyside and interrogating the methods through which at this time’s mother and father impose their agendas, the drama centered on a bunch of teenagers from disparate backgrounds, every of whom may have dedicated the crime, together with their mother and father – who gave equal trigger for suspicion.
The Gathering was Line of Responsibility maker World’s first present for Channel 4 since 2017’s Born to Kill. Numerous Channel 4 press briefings positioned The Gathering as a giant streaming success. It was additionally offered by distributor ITV Studios to France Télévisions and swept up on the Monte Carlo Tv Pageant Awards.
Channel 4 TV drama was not too long ago taken over by Film4 boss Ollie Madden, with Caroline Hollick exiting. Madden’s early commissions have included a Margaret Thatcher sequence starring Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan, and an adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses with Gillian Anderson.
The Solar was first information of The Gathering’s cancelation.
