Channel 5 Commissions Psychological Thriller Cold Call

Channel 5 has commissioned Cold Call, a four-part psychological thriller from Chalkboard TV.

The drama charts the aftermath of a fraudulent scam following a cold call to a single mother. Sally Lindsay (Mount Pleasant, Ordinary Lies) stars as June, a hard-working mother left determined to salvage her family’s future after a phone call that changes her life.

Cold Call will go into production later this year and will air on Channel 5 in 2019.

Channel 5’s director of programs, Ben Frow, commented: “The commission of Cold Call demonstrates our ambition to offer talented emerging indies the opportunity to deliver brilliant drama in prime time. Cold Call is not for the faint-hearted and will have viewers hooked from beginning to end.”

Lindsay said: “I’m incredibly excited to be working with Channel 5 and Chalkboard on Cold Call. The pitch was a complete page-turner, the story jumping off the page straight away. I can’t wait to bring this very modern thriller alive; exploring how far a very normal woman will be stretched when she is horribly deceived and her entire life and family are destroyed. I think the subject matter is extremely of the moment with the divide of the haves and have-nots getting ever wider.”

Mike Benson from Chalkboard TV added: “We’re over the moon to have the chance to continue to build the scripted side of Chalkboard with Channel 5—they share our ambition to create something darkly thrilling, which leaves you punching the air and covering your eyes in equal measure!”