January is the perfect time to cwtch up and start a new drama and ITV1 is airing a new series which you can enjoy. Out There, starring Martin Clunes was filmed in Wales and follows one farmer’s battle against county drug lines.
Playing a farmer confronted with dark forces creeping into his rural community, Martin will be joined by an impressive Welsh cast for the series. The drama was filmed in Wales and has a Welsh director, Marc Evans, who created and co-wrote the show and has a also brought TV-viewers The Pembrokeshire Murders, Hinterland and Manhunt also with Martin Clunes.
The cast is made up of a list of well-known Welsh stars, including Mark Lewis Jones from Keeping Faith, Outlander and Baby Reindeer.
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When does Out There begin and how many episodes?
Out There will begin at 9pm on Sunday, January 19 on ITV1. There will be six episodes in the series and Out There will also be available to watch on ITVX. The second episode will air at 9pm on Monday, January 20.
What is the plot for Out There?
The drama depicts the surreptitious invasion of the land our farmer, played by Martin, cherishes with devastating consequences, as his livelihood, homestead and family life are threatened by local county lines drug dealers: urban gangs using the British countryside as a field of operations, moving drugs and money between their inner-city hubs and provincial areas.
Martin plays Nathan Williams, a man who runs a farm which has been in his family for generations, caught in a numbing rhythm of work and grief following the death of his wife, Sabine, two years previously. A single parent to teenager Johnny, played by Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Nathan is uniquely placed and possesses enough pent-up energy to take on the gangs that threaten to engulf his son.
Consequently, he embarks on a personal journey that will take him ever further out of his comfort zone into a dark alternative world as he fights to protect his family, his homestead and his legacy. He’s missed all the clues that the country idyll around him has been fatally compromised, contaminated by waves of criminality spreading and mutating virus-like from the city.
Now Nathan must accept that the rustic atmosphere of his childhood is long gone, replaced by something altogether more perilous. And the only way for Nathan to survive in this brave new world is to learn the rules and fight back.
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Cast list for Out There
Martin Clunes as Nathan Williams
Louis Ashbourne Serkis as Johnny Williams
Mark Lewis Jones as Caleb Williams
Natalia Kostrzewa as Eva Bartosz
Carly-Sophia Davies as Sadie Simpson
Gerran Howell as Rhys Simpson
Out There filming locations
Out There was filmed entirely in Wales. The farms were located in Llangattock, near Crickhowell in Bannau Brycheiniog and in Llyswen, near Brecon.
The small town location was made up of various areas but mainly featured Llandovery in Carmarthenshire. The large town and city location was Newport, Trefil near Merthyr Tydfil, Port Talbot, Swansea, Cardiff and Bettws near Bridgend.
Interior scenes were shot at Dragon Studios in Cardiff. Martin spoke about filming in Wales, he said: “I really enjoyed filming in Wales. The locations were beautiful. I like being on a farm and being in the countryside. I was in my element.”
Carly-Sophia, who is from Port Talbot, spoke about what it was like to be filming in her home. She said: “It was great to see Port Talbot in a different way and to see different parts of it, and parts of my own country that I hadn’t seen, and have a new relationship with the place I grew up in.
“The house which Sadie and Rhys live in is very close to where I grew up, literally round the corner from my old school. The chip shop in the chip shop scene is the one I used to go to on my lunch break from school. The pub we filmed in was where I had my prom. You have memories in all these places. It was a really special experience.”
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