Michaela Coel teams with BBC, HBO on drama series ‘First Day On Earth'

Michaela Coel will write, star in, and executive produce the upcoming series First Day On Earth with filming scheduled to start next year.

The ten-part series is a Various Artists Limited production for the BBC in a co-production with HBO, and made in association with A24. 

First Day On Earth follows British novelist Henri (played by Coel) who relocates to Ghana, West Africa - her parents’ homeland - to work on a film and reconnect with her estranged father. Upon her arrival, neither the job nor her father turns out how she expected, and Henri must now navigate life and her sense of identity.

Coel reunites with Various Artists Limited (VAL), having worked together previously on Coel’s hit 2020 BBC drama I May Destroy You.

Joining Coel as executive producers are Succession’s Jesse Armstrong, Phil Clarke and Roberto Troni for Various Artists Limited, Jo McClellan for the BBC, and Piers Wenger for A24.

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