{"id":719026,"date":"2026-07-30T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:19:12","slug":"matthew-macfadyen-claire-foy-to-lead-adaptation-of-you-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719026\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Macfadyen, Claire Foy to Lead Adaptation of You Are Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMatthew Macfadyen<\/a> and Claire Foy<\/a> are to lead the TV adaptation of \u201cYou Are Here,\u201d the bestselling novel by \u201cOne Day\u201d author David Nicholls. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 8-part series \u2014\u00a0which was first announced by Variety earlier this year<\/a> \u2014\u00a0has been green lit by the BBC and Starz, with Lenny Abrahamson<\/a> directing, reuniting with the BBC for the first time since \u201cNormal People.\u201d Set to be filmed around in the Lake District and around Manchester, \u201cYou Are Here,\u201d is being produced by the Fremantle-owned Irish powerhouse Element Pictures, who also produced \u201cNormal People.\u201d Global sales will be handled by Fremantle with De Maio Entertainment spearheading the partnership with Starz.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet along the Coast to Coast walking trail from the Lake District to Robin Hood\u2019s Bay in North Yorkshire, \u201cYou Are Here\u201d follows Michael (Macfadyen) and Marnie (Foy), strangers thrown together by a mutual friend who unexpectedly find themselves setting off on an epic walk. Against the odds, they end up on the brink of a relationship that neither was looking for, but which might be exactly the one they both need.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series is \u201cabout finding a connection when you least expect it and overcoming the obstacles of midlife,\u201d reads the description. \u201cTreading the tricky path from loneliness to love, Marnie and Michael go coast-to-coast across the stunning (and sometimes soaking) English countryside, navigating an undeniable attraction that is as exhilarating as it is terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so delighted to be working on \u2018You Are Here\u2019 with Element, the BBC, Starz and Lenny, whose work I\u2019ve admired for many years,\u201d said Nicholls, who adapted his own novel. \u201cAnd Matthew and Claire are both just dream casting, wonderful in comedy and drama, so detailed and thoughtful and sympathetic. The intention with the novel was to write a close-up study of a relationship, but set against this magnificent landscape, and that\u2019s our ambition here too; to make something both intimate and epic, funny and dramatic, a romantic comedy with real emotion. We can\u2019t wait to bring Marnie and Michael\u2019s journey to the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Abrahamson: \u201cAs a huge admirer of David\u2019s writing, I\u2019m delighted to be collaborating with him to bring \u2018You Are Here\u2019 to the screen. The novel is such a beautiful love story \u2013 funny, profound and ultimately deeply hopeful. I\u2019m also extremely excited to have Claire and Matthew, two actors I hugely admire, playing Michael and Marnie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou Are Here\u201d is an Element Pictures, a Fremantle company, production for the BBC and Starz. Both Abrahamson and Nicholls serve as executive producers alongside Claire Foy and MacFadyen, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe and Emma Norton for Element Pictures and Jonny Richards and Anna Ferguson for the BBC. The series is produced by Clare Shepherd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Macfadyen and Claire Foy are to lead the TV adaptation of \u201cYou Are Here,\u201d the bestselling novel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[52511,96,237870,25922,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-719026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-claire-foy","tag-entertainment","tag-lenny-abrahamson","tag-matthew-macfadyen","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719026","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=719026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}