The English

6 x 60’ for BBC & Amazon

The English is a 6-part sweepingly visual Western adventure and epic romance, written and directed by the multi-award winning Hugo Blick (The Honourable Woman, Black Earth Rising, The Shadow Line). Taking the arrows and bullets of its genre, The English twists them into a uniquely compelling parable on gender, race, love and power with poignant modern relevance. 

Lady Cornelia Locke, played by Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place, Sicario) and American Indian cavalry scout Eli Whipp, played by Chaske Spencer (Wild Indian, Marvel’s ECHO), come together to cross the barren and tumultuously violent landscape of the developing 1890s Mid-American west in order to right the horrifying wrongs of an unexpectedly shared past. 

Starring alongside Blunt and Spencer are Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line, The Honourable Woman), Valerie Pachner (A Hidden Life, The Kingsman), Rafe Spall (The Salisbury Poisonings, Trying), Tom Hughes (A Discovery Of Witches, Victoria), Toby Jones (Marvellous, Detectorists) and Ciarán Hinds (The Terror, The Woman In Black). 

The English is exec produced by Emily Blunt, Hugo Blick for Eight Rooks, Greg Brenman for Drama Republic and Mona Qureshi for the BBC. Produced by Colin Wratten and co-produced by Amazon Studios and the BBC in association with All3 Media International, The English airs in the UK on BBC2 and BBC iPlayer and Amazon Prime Video in the US from mid-November 2022.

DISTRIBUTION: All3Media