The Cry: The new BBC drama that's set to be this autumn's must-watch - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity BBC One’ s The Cry is set to replace Bodyguard in our Sunday night TV schedules By You Magazine - September 26, 2018 Do you love edge-of-your-seat dramas? Get ready for the BBC’s newest thriller, The Cry, then. Starring Jenna Coleman, of Victoria and Doctor Who fame, the drama follows a young family who travel to Australia from Scotland with their newborn. Coleman, who plays the mother Joanna, and her husband, Alistair, played by Top of the Lake’s Ewen Leslie, are there to try and seek custody of Alistair’s child with his ex-wife, played by Asher Keddie, but have have their world turned upside down when their own baby is abducted. REX/Shutterstock According to the BBC, this event acts as ‘the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young woman, exposing the myths and truths of motherhood.’ Jenna Coleman actually wrapped filming for the four-part series – which has been adapted from the popular 2013 novel of the same name by Helen FitzGerald – back in May so that she could film season three of Victoria, but it’s this September that it will hit screens. What's the worst thing that can happen to a mother?@Jenna_Coleman_ is Joanna in #TheCry. Coming soon to BBC One. pic.twitter.com/mecfdNkgEd - BBC One (@BBCOne) September 9, 2018 Talking of reading the script, Coleman said it was ‘like walking a tightrope, racing page to page, unsettling, unknowable, uncomfortable, and thrilling.’ However, she’s discussed how she was worried she’d actually been miscast in the role. Talking to the Guardian, she said: ‘I spent a good first chunk of it just thinking they’d completely miscast – and why on earth me?’ ‘I’m not a mother! I really kind of hit myself over the head with it. I felt there was obviously something I wouldn’t be able to capture. It was something so… well, primal that I haven’t literally experienced. And I’ve really struggled with that.’ I didn’t know it then but that’s when the freak show began, two faces, two Joanna’s @Jenna_Coleman_ in The Cry, this Sunday at 9pm #TheCry pic.twitter.com/VGDGyMjfRz - The Cry (@thecrybbc) September 25, 2018 She said that she turned to friends, who were mothers, for advice on how to portray her character and learnt a lot about the ‘day-to-day realities of what it is being a new mum’. And knowing what an incredible actress she is, despite her concerns, we have no doubt she’s honoured the role. The BBC have confirmed that the show will air on Sunday 30th September, so it will fill the Bodyguard-shaped hole in our viewing schedules. We wonder if we could fit in a quick read of the book before then! Silence can be worse than the most desperate cry.@Jenna_Coleman_ is Joanna in #TheCry. Coming to BBC One on Sunday 30th September. pic.twitter.com/14m8jTbNvD - BBC One (@BBCOne) September 19, 2018 RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved