BBC Commissions Mayday, a 5-Part Crime Thriller

BBC has commissioned a new 5-part crime thriller titled Mayday.

When a young girl goes missing on her way to the Mayday parade, the small community in which she lives looks to one another for answers.

But beneath the picture-postcard idyll lies a sinister other world and the dark woods teem with myth.

As the community reels from Hattie's disappearance, the drama follows the mass hysteria and ensuing search from the point of view of the central characters, each of whom fears that someone they know is responsible. As they keep silent, their suspicions intensify over the course of the five episodes.

Sophie Okonedo plays Fiona, a young mum determined to protect her family, who spies on a neighbor. Peter Firth plays Malcolm, a community leader married to Gail, played by Lesley Manville.

Aidan Gillen plays Everett, a single father to the sensitive Linus (Max Fowler) who has fallen in love with Hattie's twin sister Caitlin (Leila Mimmack) — who can feel it in her bones that her sister is dead.

Mayday also stars Sam Spruell as Steve, brother to Seth (Tom Fisher), an outcast who hides in the woods.

"A highly authored serial from Ben Court and Caroline Ip, which has attracted a brilliant cast and takes an original look at a familiar story," said Jane Featherstone, Chief Executive of Kudos Film and Television, which is producing Mayday. "There are no police incident rooms, autopsies or crime scene investigations, instead this is about a town facing the reality that the killer is among them, one of them."

(Source: Press release.)