{"id":655848,"date":"2026-06-24T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655848\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:39:20","slug":"possession-teaser-gugu-mbatha-raw-leads-skys-limited-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655848\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Possession\u2019 Teaser: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Leads Sky\u2019s Limited Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe have our first look at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/possession\/\" id=\"auto-tag_possession\" data-tag=\"possession\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Possession<\/a>, the new five-part limited series from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sky\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sky\" data-tag=\"sky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky<\/a>, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gugu-mbatha-raw\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gugu-mbatha-raw\" data-tag=\"gugu-mbatha-raw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gugu Mbatha-Raw<\/a> (Loki).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe series was previously titled Inheritance and was created and written by Karla Crome (Something Very Bad is Going to Happen). Storm Saulter (Better Mus\u2019 Come, Sprinter) is the series director, with Mbatha-Raw leading alongside Jonny Lee Miller (The Crown, Elementary), Sheldon Shepherd (Bob Marley: One Love, Better Mus\u2019 Come) and Bel Powley (A Small Light, The Morning Show).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe series synopsis reads: Claudia (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), an ambitious young bi\u2011racial lawyer, travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim made by a local man, Cudjoe East (Sheldon Shepherd), against Oliver Connaught (Jonny Lee Miller), a wealthy white aristocrat. But the case takes an unsettling turn when Claudia discovers that the disputed estate is the very place that has haunted her nightmares: Hope Hill, the Connaught family\u2019s former plantation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Claudia and Oliver dig deeper, they uncover a disturbing link between the plantation\u2019s brutal past and the injustices still shaping the present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe wider series ensemble features Nadean Rawlins (Bob Marley: One Love, Sprinter), Sean Gilder (Mary &amp; George,\u202fSlow Horses), Olunike Adeliyi (The Fire Inside, Mike), Richard Dillane (Wolf Hall, The Crown), Diveen Henry (The Day of the Jackal, Manhunt), Jack Bandeira (Happy Valley, Black Mirror), Shantol Jackson (Death in Paradise, Yardie), Jeff Crossley (Bob Marley: One Love, Sprinter), and Safina Simpson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPossession is produced by Snowed-In in association with Sky Studios. The series is\u202fbased on an original story created by Jefferson Bannis. Executive Producers are Ruth Kenley-Letts, Jenny van der Lande, Neil Blair, Karla Crome, Storm Saulter, Sam Hoyle, Serena Thompson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jonny Lee Miller. The Development Producer is Roxanne Harvey and the Series Producer is Kate Ogborn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe series will be available on Sky in the UK and Ireland. NBC is handling international sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCheck out the teaser above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have our first look at Possession, the new five-part limited series from Sky, led by Gugu Mbatha-Raw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,168446,63882,7355,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-655848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-gugu-mbatha-raw","tag-possession","tag-sky","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}