Stan and BBC co-production Ten Pound Poms, starring Michelle Keegan, Faye Marsay and Warren Brown, will launch May 15.
The series is created by BAFTA-winner Danny Brocklehurst and produced by UK production company Eleven (Sex Education).
Inspired by true events in Australia’s history, Ten Pound Poms is a six-part series that follows a group of Brits as they leave dreary post-war Britain in 1956 to embark on a life-altering adventure on the other side of the world. At the heart of the drama are Annie (Marsay) and Terry Roberts (Warren) They try to make the best of the situation for their family, but the poor living conditions at the migrant hostel and local attitudes towards immigrants test them in ways they couldn’t have imagined. They aren’t the only people at the hostel avoiding the truth.
Kate (Michelle Keegan) is a young nurse who arrives without her fiancé and will do whatever it takes to try and rewrite her devastating past. Bill (Leon Ford) has lost his family business back home and is so desperate to prove he’s living the Australian dream that he’ll stop at nothing in order to get a lifestyle he can’t sustain. Teenager Stevie (Declan Coyle) comes from a troubled background and hopes to use this new adventure to escape his oppressive father. Meanwhile, Ron (Rob Collins), an Indigenous Australian war veteran, struggles with feeling like an outsider in his own country.
Also starring are Hattie Hook, Finn Treacy, Emma Hamilton, Stephen Curry and David Field.
Jamie Stone and Ana Kokkinos directed from scripts by Brocklehurst, Ryan Griffen, Smita Bhide and Ava Bickett.
Gaynor Holmes executive produces for the BBC and Amanda Duthie and Cailah Scobie for Stan with Joel Wilson, Olivia Trench and Jamie Campbell executive producing for Eleven.
DOP is Meg White and casting director Leigh Pickford.
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) distribute the series worldwide.