Glue

18 August 2014

(8 x 60)
TX: Autumn

E4 brings together a cast of Britain’s brightest young talent in brand new original series Glue, created and written by BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne (This is England, Skins, The Fades).

Overton. A tiny village in the English countryside.  Farming is its bread-and-butter.  Race-horses are its beating heart.  But beyond the rolling hills and behind the stable doors lies a green and not-so-pleasant land...

What makes it unpleasant? Maybe it's the teenagers who think it's funny to play chicken on top of silo machines that can cut your hand to slices no thicker than a piece of ham. Or maybe it's the group of mates who think that grain barn jumping – as reckless and as stupid as it sounds – is fun. Or perhaps the fact that twocking a car is just something that's done on a night out.

But now it's got serious – now someone has played murder. 

When the body of a local teenage boy is found underneath the wheels of a tractor, the villagers in this remote community – his friends – are forced to open up their world and watch their secrets spill out.  Secrets that will change their particular brand of country life forever. 

Twisted and wayward, tragic and comic, Glue will take E4 audiences on a wild and thrilling ride as the mystery of his murder unravels.  

Yasmin Paige, star of critically-acclaimed feature Submarine; Jordan Stephens, one half of platinum-selling hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks; Callum Turner, recently named as a Screen International Star of Tomorrow; Charlotte Spencer last seen as Carly Kirk in BBC Two’s Line of Duty; Faye Marsay, who stole Howard’s heart as Candice in Channel 4’s Fresh Meat; Jessie Cave, best known as Lavender Brown  in Harry Potter; stage and screen actor Tommy McDonnell, recently in British prison film Starred Up; Bristol Old Vic graduate Billy Howle, who appeared in Channel 4’s New Worlds; and Waterloo Road actor Tommy Lawrence Knight lead the exciting young cast.  Joining them are Kerry Fox (Bright Star), Jonny Owen (Shameless), Kierston Wareing (Luther), and Steve Oram (Sightseers). 

Glue is produced by Joel Wilson and Exec Produced by Jamie Campbell for Eleven Film.

Prod Co: Eleven Film