First Day on Earth from writer, executive producer, and actor Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You) will be co-produced by HBO and BBC. Coel’s new drama will have a 10-episode first season, with production expected to begin in 2025.
“I am delighted to be working with VAL, HBO and the BBC again, and to partner with A24; thanks to all of their combined taste, care, and expertise, I feel our show is in great hands,” said Coel. “First Day on Earth is another very personal story for me which I hope will engage viewers from all over the world, and I can’t wait for audiences to go on Henri’s journey with her.”
Who is Henri? HBO offered this synopsis:
“British novelist Henri is stuck. Work has dried up, her relationship is going nowhere. So when she’s offered a job on a film in Ghana, West Africa – her parents’ homeland, where her estranged father lives – she can’t resist the chance to reconnect with him and the country of her heritage.
But when she arrives, neither the job nor her father turn out the way she expected, and soon Henri has to deal with danger and hypocrisy, form new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a new sense of identity – one that might leave her stronger, but could also break her.”
Additional executive producers include BBC’s Jo McClellan, A24’s Piers Wenger, and Jesse Armstrong, Phil Clarke, and Roberto Troni for Various Artists Limited.
“Michaela’s words have the ability to transport the reader like no other. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to continue the conversation that began with I May Destroy You, alongside our close collaborators at VAL, A24, and the BBC. With Henri as our guide, First Day on Earth is as lyrical as it is visceral in its excavation of the idea of home,” stated Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President, HBO & Max Comedy Programming.
Executive producers Phil Clarke and Robert Troni released this statement: “We’re delighted and feel extremely lucky that Michaela chose to bring her brilliant new show to us, after the extraordinary experience we had working together on I May Destroy You. Yet again, Michaela delivers a highly original, singular story that explores the relationship between England and Ghana via a second-generation British-Ghanaian woman who takes up the opportunity to return to the homeland of her parents and finds herself encountering a cast of memorable characters and experiences that force her to face some painful home truths. But as ever with Michaela, it is by turns shocking, funny, and unforgettable, and done in her inimitable style.”
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