HBO has released the official teaser video for Get Millie Black, the upcoming HBO-Channel 4 crime drama limited series. Check it out.
Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song, Kindred) stars in Get Millie Black as Millie-Jean Black, a police detective who was born on the Rock in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in London, and claims to be both British and Jamaican — yet somehow belongs to neither place.
Millie quits Scotland Yard and returns home to Kingston, where she works missing persons cases for the JPF (Jamaican Police Force). In relatively short order, she finds herself on a quest to save a sister who won’t be saved, to find a boy who can’t be found, and to solve a case that will blow her world apart and prove almost as tough to crack as Millie Black herself.
Working alongside Millie is her police partner, Curtis (Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Britannia), a gay cop who is forced to keep his love life secret from his colleagues, can go only so far in the JPF, and is about to have his whole life shattered. The aforementioned sister is “gully queen” Hibiscus (Chyna McQueen), one of the Sunlight Ladies, a band of Queer outcasts living hand-to-mouth yet exuberantly in the gullies that run throughout Kingston. Hibiscus is the sister Millie never bargained for; Millie is the sister Hibiscus never knew she needed. Also on the scene is Hit Girl (reggae singer Dorothy “Patra” Smith), a go-go-club owner and underworld entrepreneur.
Meanwhile, game-playing British detective Luke Holborn (Joe Dempsie, Game of Thrones) shows up in Kingston on the trail of a major investigation that’s set on a collision course with Millie’s. Bringing all the baggage of Scotland Yard with him, Holborn’s presence on Millie’s home turf is destined to be triggering in all sorts of ways.
Get Millie Black, an HBO Original Limited Series, premieres in the US on Monday, November 25, at 9pm ET/PT, on HBO, with streaming available on Max. The series will air on Channel 4 next year (date tba).
A production of Motive Pictures (backed by Fifth Season), Get Millie Black, an HBO-Channel 4 co-production, was commissioned by Channel 4. The five-part drama is created and written by Marlon James. Executive producers are Marlon James, Jami O’Brien, Leopoldo Gout, and Simon Maxwell for Motive Pictures. Co-executive producers are Tanya Hamilton, who is also lead director, alongside Joshua St. Johnston, who also writes on the project. The writers are Theresa Ikoko and Lydia Adetunji, and the directors are Annetta Laufer and Jean Luc Herbulot.
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