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Counsels — cast for new original BBC drama confirmed

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Casting has been announced for new BBC high-stakes legal drama Counsels

With filming underway in Glasgow, the BBC has announced the cast for Counsels. The series is co-created by Scottish writers Bryan Elsley (The Crow Road, Skins) and BBC Writers’ Drama Room graduate Gillian McCormack.

What is Counsels about?

The series follows the lives of a group of twenty-something lawyers in Glasgow in the crucial moment when a few years out of university their careers finally become serious. Working across the legal landscape, whether as public prosecutors, slick representatives of glossier commercial interests or the shabby and good-hearted last resort of those with nothing left to lose, each one of them is out to win. They are colleagues jostling for promotion, lovers trying to hold onto one another as ambitions accelerate and pure adversaries professionally and personally. And now’s the time things are going to catch fire.

The your lawyers are: Jamie (Brandon Grace, My Lady Jane, Hamlet Hail to the Thief), Bav (Ro Kumar, Traces S2, Accidental Death of an Anarchist), Nadine (Eilidh Park, Wind of Change), Alasdair (George Prentice, The Pendragon Cycle), Katie (Alyth Ross, Last Light, Dirty Angels) and Karina (Rebecca Bell, Outlander: Blood of My Blood). The cast photo above shows L-R: Karina (Rebecca Bell), Jamie (Brandon Grace), Nadine (Eilidh Park), Katie (Alyth Ross), Bav (Ro Kumar), Alasdair (George Prentice) (Image: Balloon Entertainment/BBC/Mark Mainz).

Other cast includes: Michelle Gomez (Doom Patrol, The Flight Attendant), Derek Riddell (Happy Valley, Industry), Laura Haddock (What It Feels Like For A Girl, The Recruit), Daniela Nardini (This Life, Sunset Song), Michael Nardone (Traces, The Night Manager), Sally Howitt (River City, Dinosaur), Stuart Bowman (Department Q, Only Child), Neshla Caplan (The Rig, Rebus) and Stephen Purdon (River City, Sweet Sixteen).

With the eight-episode series currently filming, we expect the show to air in 2026. We’ll keep you posted.