{"id":295528,"date":"2026-02-13T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295528\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:08:12","slug":"ncuti-gatwa-thandiwe-newton-join-michaela-coel-in-first-day-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295528\/","title":{"rendered":"Ncuti Gatwa, Thandiwe Newton\u00a0Join Michaela Coel In &#8216;First Day On Earth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Ncuti\u00a0Gatwa (Doctor Who,\u00a0Sex Education), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/thandiwe-newton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_thandiwe-newton\" data-tag=\"thandiwe-newton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thandiwe Newton<\/a> (Anaconda, God\u2019s Country), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/maxine-peake\/\" id=\"auto-tag_maxine-peake\" data-tag=\"maxine-peake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxine Peake<\/a> (I Swear, Say Nothing) and Danny\u00a0Sapani\u00a0(Halo, Harlots) are set to star opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michaela-coel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michaela-coel\" data-tag=\"michaela-coel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michaela Coel<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/first-day-on-earth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_first-day-on-earth\" data-tag=\"first-day-on-earth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First Day On Earth<\/a>, Coel\u2019s new drama series for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc\" data-tag=\"bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, a followup to her award-winning I May Destroy You. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn First Day On Earth, British-Ghanaian\u00a0novelist Henri (Coel) is on the run \u2013 from herself, her life, her partner, and that weird guy at her book talk.\u00a0When she ends up in Ghana, her ancestral homeland, she finds herself submerged in an altogether different world. Amidst new friends, fresh joy, and many different and nuanced relationships, Henri also finds secrets, lies, difficulty,\u00a0and denial,\u00a0\u2013\u00a0leading her to question everything about herself, her\u00a0heritage,\u00a0and her family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGatwa plays Darren; Newton plays Anya; Peake plays Helen;\u00a0Sapani\u00a0plays Ernest.\u00a0Filming on the 10-episode series\u00a0is currently underway.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCreated and written by Coel, First Day On Earth is\u00a0a Various Artists Limited production,\u00a0co-produced by HBO and the BBC\u00a0in association with A24.\u00a0Executive producers are\u00a0Coel,\u00a0Sam Miller,\u00a0Jesse Armstrong,\u00a0Phil Clarke\u00a0and Roberto Troni for Various Artists Limited,\u00a0Jo McClellan for the BBC, and A24.\u00a0Johann Knobel produces; Coel and Miller direct.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Ncuti\u00a0Gatwa (Doctor Who,\u00a0Sex Education), Thandiwe Newton (Anaconda, God\u2019s Country), Maxine Peake (I Swear, Say Nothing) and Danny\u00a0Sapani\u00a0(Halo,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1578,140703,93,140704,3284,61,60,140705,94672,111858,105614,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-295528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-dannyu00a0sapani","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-first-day-on-earth","12":"tag-hbo","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-maxine-peake","16":"tag-michaela-coel","17":"tag-ncuti-gatwa","18":"tag-thandiwe-newton","19":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}