Directors: Lynsey MilleR and Siri Rødnes
Writers: Bryan Elsley, Gillian McCormack, Maryam Hamidi and Jingan Young
Executive Producer: Bryan Elsley, Gillian McCormack, Gaynor Holmes, Stephanie Fyfe, Gavin SmitH, Daniel Donnelly and Dave Evans
Production Companies: Balloon Entertainment, All3Media International and ZDFneo
Main Cast: Brandon Grace, Ro Kumar, Eilidh Park, George Prentice, Alyth Ross, Rebecca Bell, Michelle Gomez, Derek Riddell, Laura Haddock and Daniela Nardini
Broadcaster: BBCiPlayer, BBC One and BBC Scotland
Screen Scotland support: The film accessed funding through Screen Scotland’s Broadcast Content Fund.
Synopsis
Counsels follows the lives of a group of twentysomething lawyers in Glasgow in the crucial moment when a few years out of university their careers finally become serious.
Working across the legal landscape, whether as public prosecutors, slick representatives of glossier commercial interests or the shabby and good-hearted last resort of those with nothing left to lose, each one of them is out to win.
They are colleagues jostling for promotion, lovers trying to hold onto one another as ambitions accelerate and pure adversaries professionally and personally. And now’s the time things are going to catch fire.
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Filming locations: Counsels is filming on location in Glasgow.
Image credits: BBC / Balloon Entertainment / Mark Mainz