EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 and See-Saw Films are developing a TV series adaptation of Benedict Lombe’s history-making play Shifters, which is about to transfer to A24’s Cherry Lane Theatre and counts Idris Elba and Little Simz as admirers.
The London play about two young Black people who meet again after years apart starred Supacell’s Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong. We are told the TV version will be more expansive, with Congolese-British writer Lombe set to adapt the play herself, her debut small screen project. It is not yet confirmed whether Cole or Agyepong will reprise their roles.
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