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In a rare US import pickup, BBC Two has taken the broadcast rights to ‘Snowfall‘, a drama from ‘Boyz n the Hood’ director John Singleton about the 80’s crack cocaine epidemic in 1980’s New York.
Los Angeles 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. The story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course, including Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo “El Oso” Zapata (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), a Mexican wrestler caught up in a power struggle within a crime family; Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson), a CIA operative running from a dark past who begins an off-book operation to fund the Nicaraguan Contras and Lucia Villanueva (Emily Rios), the self-possessed daughter of a Mexican crime lord.
Created by John Singleton & Eric Amadio and Dave Andron, ‘Snowfall’ is executive produced by Singleton, Amadio, Andron, Thomas Schlamme, Michael London and Trevor Engelson. Andron serves as showrunner. The series originally aired on FX in the US and has already been renewed for a 2nd season.
This marks a rare US pick up for the BBC, and will sit along side Ryan Murphy’s ‘American Crime Story‘ series, which is due to land early next year and will focus on the assassination of Gianni Versace, and ‘Feud‘, which centres around the backstage battle between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.
‘Snowfall‘ Season 1 comes to BBC Two in Autumn 2017.
