Abi Morgan’s compulsive legal drama “The Split” is set to return for a two-part special.
“The Split” is focused on high-powered divorce attorney Hannah Defoe and her family. Picking up two years after Season 3 left off – in which Hannah was going through her own divorce — audiences will reunite with the formidable lawyer in Spain, where she’s celebrating a wedding along with the rest of her family.
“Set across one sun-soaked weekend, ‘The Split’ will encompass break-ups, reunions and like all good weddings, plenty of romance,” promises the logline. “As the sun rises over the glorious Spanish countryside, Hannah is compelled to banish the ghosts of her past and open herself up to the possibility of love again. Can she find the courage to take the leap into a new future?”
Nicola Walker will return as Hannah alongside Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay, Ian McElhinney, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Elizabeth Roberts and Alex Guersman.
The cast will also be joined by a bevy of new faces, including “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” actor Toby Stephens as fellow lawyer Archie Moore.
Morgan has returned to write the special, which will be directed by Giulia Gandini (“Shetland”) and produced by Jennie Fava (“The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin”).
Produced by Sister, the special will air on the BBC and its streaming platform later this year. Jane Featherstone, Lucy Dyke and Morgan executive produce while BBC Studios are distributing internationally
“In a world of brutal break ups and tantalising make ups, the Defoe family are invited to a destination wedding of their own, promising all that audiences have grown to love about ‘The Split,’” said Morgan. “Problematic prenups, scandalous wedding crashers, and low flying marriage proposals, as rom com meets gone wrong, in a chaotic and riotous weekend that guarantees to crack open the heart, before the last of the guests have gone home.”
Sister co-founder Jane Featherstone and executive producer Lucy Dyke said: “It is a joy to reunite with Abi and our wonderful Split team for this two-parter for the BBC One and iPlayer. We have missed the Defoe family and their messy, complex lives so we couldn’t be more excited to send them to beautiful Barcelona for a glorious, romantic weekend. In this chapter, Abi explores the often terrifying prospect of facing new romance after divorce and promises a rollercoaster of emotions along the way. And welcoming the brilliant Toby Stephens to our ensemble, as lawyer Archie Moore, it’s safe to say, sparks are going to fly.”
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