Fremantle To Distribute New Channel 4 Drama In Flight

Filming is underway on In Flight, a gripping new crime thriller produced by Buccaneer (Marcella, Crime, The Burning Girls) for Channel 4.

Fremantle is handling global sales.

The drama series is written and co-created by Mike Walden (Marcella, Whitstable Pearl) and Adam Randall (Slow Horses, iBoy) and directed by Chris Baugh (Wreck, Tin Star).

Leading the cast is the award-winning Katherine Kelly (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, The Long Shadow) playing a flight attendant who finds her life turned upside down when she is blackmailed into drug smuggling after her son is arrested.

Jo Conran (Katherine Kelly) is a single mum working as a flight attendant. Her son is serving a fifteen-year sentence in a Bulgarian prison for a murder he swears he did not commit. Jo is approached by a gang who know all about her son and is blackmailed into using her job to smuggle drugs. She soon finds herself pulled into a murky underworld of corrupt cops and hired killers, forced to carry out their orders with no escape in sight. However, no matter how far Jo finds herself from her old life, her mission remains the same, to keep her son alive.

In Flight is set against the fast-paced, high-pressure world of global air travel and will follow Jo’s relentless quest to protect her family while entangled in a dangerous criminal syndicate.

Joining the ensemble cast are Stuart Martin as Cormac, a key member of the criminal gang; and Ashley Thomas as Dom, a customs officer at a major London airport, plus Bronagh Waugh as Melanie, Harry Cadby as Sonny, Corinna Brown as Kayla and Ambreen Razia as Zara.

Set across dynamic global locations including Bangkok, Bulgaria, Istanbul and London, filming will take place in Belfast with funding support from Northern Ireland Screen.

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