{"id":10253,"date":"2018-10-24T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/babou-ceesay-jill-halfpenny-lead-cast-bbcs-dark-mony\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:04:16","slug":"babou-ceesay-jill-halfpenny-lead-cast-of-bbcs-dark-mony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/babou-ceesay-jill-halfpenny-lead-cast-of-bbcs-dark-mony\/","title":{"rendered":"Babou Ceesay, Jill Halfpenny Lead Cast of BBC&#8217;s Dark Mon\u00a3y"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babou Ceesay (<em>Damilola, Our Loved Boy<\/em>, <em>Best of Enemies<\/em>) and Jill Halfpenny (<em>Three Girls<\/em>, <em>In the Club<\/em>) are to lead the cast of the new four-part drama <em>Dark Mon\u00a3y<\/em> for BBC One.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Levi David Addai (<em>Damilola, Our Loved Boy<\/em>), <em>Dark Mon\u00a3y<\/em> tells the fictional story of The Mensahs, an ordinary working-class family from North London whose youngest son has recently finished filming a major Hollywood movie role. But Manny (Ceesay) and Sam\u2019s (Halfpenny) world is shattered when Isaac reveals he was abused while out in America by a renowned filmmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Also joining the cast are Rebecca Front (<em>War and Peace<\/em>, <em>Poldark<\/em>), Susan Wokoma (<em>Crazyhead<\/em>, <em>Chewing Gum<\/em>), Olive Gray (<em>Home from Home<\/em>), Ellen Thomas (<em>Teachers<\/em>, <em>EastEnders<\/em>), Joseph May (<em>Resident Evil<\/em>), Rudi Dharmalingam (<em>Our Girl<\/em>) and Gary Beadle (<em>EastEnders<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Produced by The Forge Entertainment, the series will air next year on BBC One.<\/p>\n<p>Addai commented: \u201cI&#8217;m delighted to be working with Babou again and thrilled to have Jill on board. They lead a fantastic cast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ceesay said: &#8220;I\u2019m delighted to be heading back to the BBC for<em> Dark Mon\u00a3y<\/em> and to be reunited with Levi to tell this powerful story. I\u2019m also looking forward to collaborating with Jill, Lewis and the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Halfpenny added: \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be playing Sam in <em>Dark Mon\u00a3y<\/em>. Getting the opportunity to work with Lewis Arnold again is fantastic and I\u2019m really excited to work with Babou Ceesay on this incredible project that Levi has created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Piers Wenger, controller of BBC Drama, commented: \u201cWe are thrilled to be working alongside the brilliant Levi again. In <em>Dark Mon\u00a3y<\/em> he has created a gripping, timely and original script, with the talented Babou and Jill at the heart of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babou Ceesay (Damilola, Our Loved Boy, Best of Enemies) and Jill Halfpenny (Three Girls, In the Club) are to lead the cast of the new four-part drama Dark Mon\u00a3y for BBC One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":10254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[201,1972],"class_list":["post-10253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-one","tag-the-forge","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Babou Ceesay, Jill Halfpenny Lead Cast of BBC&#039;s Dark Mon\u00a3y - 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