The show is executive produced by Bryan Elsley, Dave Evans and Danielle Scott-Haughton for Balloon Entertainment Charlie Pattinson, Willow Grylls and Imogen O’Sullivan for New Pictures Carty-Williams and Jo McClellan for the BBC, with Nawfal Faizullah as commissioning executive. “Champion” is a co-production between Balloon Entertainment and All3Media-backed New Pictures in association with All3Media International for BBC One and Netflix. The streamer will take rights outside of the UK and. and Netflix globally a series that gives these genres of music life and texture is my dream, as is working with some of the best producers and songwriters making music today to create original tracks for the show.” Netflix has boarded its latest BBC drama, Champion, the show from award-winning Queenie writer Candice Carty-Williams, which has unveiled cast. rap and neo-soul, to the point of obsession, and to bring to BBC One and iPlayer in the U.K. Since I knew what music was, I’ve loved grime and U.K. The 8 x 45’ musical drama also stars Kerim Hassan (“Once Upon a Time in London”), Adeyinka Akinrinade (“Everything I Know About Love”), Tom Forbes (“Wolf Hall”), Genesis Lynea (“Shadow and Bone”), Karl Collins (“Attack The Block”), Francis Lovehall (“Small Axe”), Corey Weekes (“Coronation Street”) and Rachel Adedeji (“Dreaming Whilst Black”).Ĭarty-Williams said: “‘Champion’ is a celebration of Black music and of a Black family, however fragmented that family might be, and I can’t wait for the world to see their story. The cast includes Déja J Bowens in her TV debut, Malcolm Kamulete (“Top Boy”), music sensation Ray BLK (also her TV debut), Nadine Marshall (“Sherwood”), Ray Fearon (“His Dark Materials”) and Jo Martin (“Doctor Who”). Queenie (w/t) will be written and created by Candice Carty-Williams and produced by Further South Productions in association with Lionsgate Television for Channel 4. Ray BLK serves as music executive alongside grime pioneer and BRIT and Mercury Prize-nominated Ghetts.
Carty-Williams has taken a black woman’s story and made it a story of the age.Billed as a love letter to Black British music set in south London, “Champion” features original music written and produced by leading U.K. This is the fertile heart of Carty-Williams’ writing: complex dynamics of interracial friendship, of the gaps that exist between generations, layered with the specific intricacy of a Jamaican immigrant family and the blurring boundaries of workplace relationships, are spun into an entertaining seam. Carty-Williams manages to engage the head and the heart, plunging the reader into Queenie’s descent, while simultaneously helping us unpack it. Her title character is a woman you both know and cannot forget.
Candice Carty-Williams, a young Londoner, has a flair for story-telling that appears effortlessly authentic. But that would be to profoundly underestimate this debut novel, which tells a far deeper story than the one it has been compared to. Queenie as a tragicomic story of womanhood, updated for the Tinder age perhaps, with a black body occupying a space already familiar to its white predecessors.
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