Year: 2023
Directors: Jamie Magnus Stone,J ohn Hayes
Writers: Nick Leather, Laura Grace
Producer: Jonathan Curling
Executive producers: Kate Harwood, Nick Leather, Gaynor Holmes
Cast: Alexandra Roach, Joe Cole, Alex Ferns, Sharon Small, James Cosmo, David Threlfall, Daniel Cahill, Lois Chimimba, Gabriel Howell, Katie Leung, Leah MacRae, Ruth Madeley, Adam Mitchell, Pamela Nomvete, Scott Reid, Sharon Rooney, Parth Thakerar
Production companies: Fremantle’s Euston Films
Broadcaster: BBC One and BBC iPlayer
Episodes: 6x60 series
Screen Scotland funding: Nightsleeper accessed £400,000 through Screen Scotland’s Production Growth Fund to support the production to film in Glasgow and provide opportunities for local crew and trainees.
Filming in Scotland: Filming is currently underway in Glasgow, Scotland.
Synopsis
Nightsleeper is a real-time thriller set on a sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London, while a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard. Can two people who’ve never met, one on the train and one not, work together to save the lives of its disparate group of passengers as the Heart of Britain service hurtles towards what might quite literally be its final destination?
Header image: Alexandra Roach (Credit Mark Gregson) & Joe Cole (Credit Tomo Brejc)