Michelle Keegan to star in BBC period drama Ten Pound Poms

OHMYGOSSIP — Michelle Keegan is set to star in new BBC period drama ‘Ten Pound Poms’.
The ‘Our Girl’ actress is said to have flown to Australia to shoot the new six-part series, which will tell the story of a group of British migrants who swap post-war Britain for Australia in the mid-1950s.
A friend of Michelle’s told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column: “Michelle has always had one big dream, which is appearing in a period drama and ‘Ten Pound Poms’ will let her dip her toe in those past times.”
The project will see Michelle once again team up with writer Danny Brocklehurst, who worked with the star on ‘Ordinary Lies’ – her first TV drama after she departed ‘Coronation Street’ in 2014 – and Sky comedy ‘Brassic’, in which she plays Erin Croft.
Danny has told how the show asks questions about “success and failure, identity, parenthood and belonging”.
He explained: “It is a big, bold character piece about what it means to start again, to be an outsider in a new land. It asks questions about success and failure, identity, parenthood and belonging.
“The assisted migration programme is a little-known part of British and Australian history but offers endless stories about the people who travelled to the other side of the world in search of a better life.”
From 1945 to 1972 more than a million UK migrants relocated to Australia to help populate the country, through a scheme devised by the Australian and British governments, and they became known as the Ten Pound Poms.

Source: VacationHunter.Online

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