“Get Millie Black”, the eagerly anticipated television series written by Jamaican author Marlon James, will debut on HBO on Friday, November 25.
The cable company announced the news on its official Instagram page. At least seven places in the Corporate Area will be included in the series, which started filming in 2022. Millie-Jean Black, a former Scotland Yard investigator, returns to Kingston to investigate missing people for the Jamaican police in this six-part series, starring British actress Tamara Lawrence.
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Based on the summary of the series, “Black soon picks up the trail of an investigation that begins in the steaming streets of downtown Kingston and works its way up to the hill plantations of the postcolonial elite. She soon finds herself on a quest to save a sister who won’t be saved, to find a boy who can’t be found, to solve a case that will blow her world apart and prove almost as tough to crack as Millie Black. Events eventually explode onto the international stage, propelling Millie back to the UK, where, pretty soon, everyone is out to get Millie Black.”
The show will also include performers like Gershwyn Eustache Jr. (The Yellow Birds) as Jamaican police officer Curtis and Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones) as Scotland Yard inspector Luke Holborn.
Hit Girl, a go-go bar owner, will be portrayed by Dorothy “Patra” Smith. Chyna McQueen, an actress, will also play Hibiscus, a Jamaican “gully queen.”
“This is just another story about Jamaica,” the series’ narrator is heard saying in the trailer, which was also made public on October 22, 2024. It will not add up. It will be illogical. This is a ghost story, nevertheless, as are all stories about this nation.
The show will be the first time James, the 2015 Man Booker Prize-winning author, has written a screenplay. It is a Channel 4 release from Motive Pictures, a British production company headed by Simon Maxwell, “a former Channel 4 international drama boss and co-creator of Fox’s international drama series, Deep State.”
“We are immensely proud to announce such a stellar line-up of talent on Get Millie Black – from directors Tanya Hamilton and Annetta Laufer, to writers Theresa Ikoko, Lydia Adetunji and Joshua St Johnston, to a cast that showcases some of the most exciting acting talents from Jamaica and the UK, led by Tamara Lawrence, Joe Dempsie, Gershwyn Eustache Jr and a debut performance destined to electrify audiences from rising Kingston star, Chyna McQueen,” said Maxwell.
