New thriller set aboard a cruise ship

BBC Three has announced the cast for its new comedy-horror series, Wrecked.

The six-part series is described as a ‘tense thriller, mixing comedy with a slice of slasher’, set aboard The Sacramentum cruise ship.

Oscar Kennedy – who played the young Liam Williams in Ladhood and the young Nigel Slater in Toast – plays 20-year-old new recruit, Jamie, who infiltrates the 3,000-strong crew in a desperate attempt to find his missing sister.

She was working aboard the vessel on a previous tour and vanished mid-charter. Jamie  discovers the tribes within the staff - the theatre kids, the mafias and the low-paid workers – and how life below deck can be an odyssey of partying and excess, oblivious to the murders taking place on board.

The show is the first from writer Ryan J. Brown, a former winner of the Bafta new writing prize fro drama for his unproduced LGBT crime show We Are Your Children.

Also joining Wrecked are  Thaddea Graham, Jack Rowan, Harriet Webb, Jodie Tyack, Louis Boyer, Anthony Rickman, Amber Grappy, Diego Andre Peter Claffey, Miya Ocego, Warren James Dunningr, Ramanique Ahluwalia and Alice Nokes

The series is currently being filmed in Northern Ireland by Euston Films, and will air later in 2022.

Produced by: Euston Films
Written and created by: Ryan J. Brown,
Commissioned by: Piers Wenger, director of BBC drama and Fiona Campbell, controller of BBC Three
Executive producers: Noemi Spanos for Euston Films and Tommy Bulfin for the BBC
Director: Chris Baugh

Published: 1 Mar 2022