BBC Three has picked up the Hulu YA miniseries ‘Looking For Alaska‘, with it set to air in October, just one day after the US broadcast.
‘Looking For Alaska’ comes from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and is a limited series based on the best-selling John Green novel of the same name. The series centres around teenager Miles “Pudge” Halter (Charlie Plummer), as he enrols in boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life. He falls in love with Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth), and finds a group of loyal friends. But after an unexpected tragedy, Miles and his close friends attempt to make sense of what they’ve been through.
The series stars Charlie Plummer (‘Boardwalk Empire’, ‘Granite Flats’), Kristine Froseth (‘The Society’), Denny Love (‘Empire’), Jay Lee (‘American Vandal’), Landry Bender (‘Crash & Bernstein’), Sofia Vassilieva (‘The Little Things’), Uriah Shelton (’13 Reasons Why’), and Jordan Connor (‘Riverdale’). Also starring are Ron Cephas Jones (‘This Is Us’) and Timothy Simons (‘Veep’).
‘Looking for Alaska’ is created for television by Josh Schwartz, and the series comes from Paramount Television and Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire. Savage and Schwartz serve as executive producers alongside Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, John Green, and Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner of Temple Hill. Fake Empire executive Lis Rowinski serves as co-executive producer. Sarah Adina Smith (‘Hanna’, ‘Legion’) directs the first episode.
‘Looking For Alaska‘ premieres Saturday, 19th October 2019 at 10am on BBC Three in the UK, one day after the US premiere on Hulu (Friday, October 18, 2019).
