Nightsleeper unveils gripping trailer starring Peaky Blinders' Joe Cole
The BBC has also confirmed the release date for the twisty new real-time thriller.
The BBC's upcoming thriller Nightsleeper looks set to be a pulse-racing mystery thriller, if the first trailer is anything to go by.
The action, pleasantly reminiscent of the famous opening scene of 2018's Bodyguard, with Richard Madden, kicks off with Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole playing an off-duty police officer on the nightsleeper service from Glasgow to London when things take a dark turn, with the train hijacked, becoming a "guided missile".
With suspicions one of the passengers on board may be working with the hackers, it's a race against time for Cole's Joe Roag to solve the tense whodunnit and save his fellow travellers from jeopardy.
Watch the explosive trailer below.
Nightsleeper will start 9pm Sunday 15th September on BBC One, with all episodes available on BBC iPlayer from 6am.
The series will air 9pm on Sunday and Monday nights across three weeks.
The BBC describes the six-part thriller as "part fast-moving heart-in-the-mouth action-adventure and part twisty-turny whodunnit detective story", adding: "It’s a roller coaster ride set across a single night where no-one is ever quite who they seem."
Alexandra Roach (The Light in the Hall), plays Abby Aysgarth, the acting technical director at the National Cyber Security Centre, who has to work with Roag to stop the hijacked train. In order to do so, though, they'll have to figure out who's behind the hijacking.
The Nightsleeper synopsis teases: "As Abby and Joe – who have never met in person – try to establish a bond that will withstand everything the night throws at them, will Joe’s fellow passengers help or hinder their desperate efforts? Could one of them even be involved? Who can Abby and Joe really trust?"
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Nightsleeper also stars Alex Ferns (The Devil’s Hour), Sharon Small (The Bay), James Cosmo (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan), David Threlfall (Shameless), Daniel Cahill (The Control Room), Lois Chimimba (Vigil), Gabriel Howell (The Fence), Katie Leung (Harry Potter), Leah MacRae (Baby Reindeer), Ruth Madeley (Years and Years), Adam Mitchell (Mother’s Day), Pamela Nomvete (Andor), Scott Reid (Maxine), Sharon Rooney (Barbie) and Parth Thakerar (Gangs of London).
Nightsleeper starts Sunday 15th September at 9pm on BBC One. All episodes will be available on iPlayer from 6am that day.
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