Amazon On Board Peter Moffat Drama The Last Post

The Last Post, the newest drama from Peter Moffat (The Night Of), is set to air as an Amazon original in the U.S.

BBC Worldwide North America signed up Amazon in a deal that sees Prime members in the U.S. being able to stream or download every episode of season one. The six-part drama‎ is set during the social and political unrest of the mid-’60s in Aden, Yemen. It centers on the lives of a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families.

The Last Post stars Jessica Raine‎ (Call the Midwife), Jessie Buckley (War and Peace), Jeremy Neumark Jones (Denial), Amanda Drew (Broadchurch), Ben Miles (Coupling, RSC’s Wolf Hall) and Stephen Campbell Moore (History Boys, The Go-Between). The series is made by Bonafide Films and The Forge Entertainment for BBC One.

Moffat said: “Young married couples in the heart of the Sixties living in extremely close proximity in a very alien and dangerous environment has always struck me as ripe territory for drama. Men full of vim, vigor, and a desire to be heroes in a situation where that isn’t always possible, alongside young women who are starting to feel the emancipation of the ’60s and a sense of new freedoms but who are living in a constrained setting where their role is supposed to be merely supportive. My mum remembers standing on the balcony of our flat in her first week in Aden and seeing a hand grenade thrown killing a 5-year-old boy and my dad rushing out to try and do something…Throw in rock-n-roll and tumultuous love stories alongside the unexplored territory of this period in our history and you have a pretty heady mix. This was my parents’ world and one I have wanted to write about all my career.”

“Amazon has been an incredible partner over the years as the exclusive U.S. home to Doctor Who and Orphan Black,” said Jemma Harvey, the senior VP of scripted sales and co-productions at BBC Worldwide North America. “We are pleased to further build upon our relationship with Amazon, and confident that Peter Moffat’s newest rarefied drama will find a captivated audience on their service.”

“We’re thrilled to bring to our customers this authentic, heroic story of a group of officers and their families in a setting consumed by political and economic unrest,” added Brad Beale, the VP of worldwide TV content acquisition at Amazon.