Six-part series Black Ops debuts today on Friday, May 5, on BBC One

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BAFTA award winning actor and writer Gbemisola Ikumelo (Famalam, A League of Their Own), Hammed Animashaun (Black Mirror, The Wheel of Time) and BAFTA award winning actor and producer Akemnji Ndifornyen (Famalam, The Queen’s Gambit) star in the high-concept comedy thriller, Black Ops, coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer from Friday 5th May and produced by BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe.

Created by Gbemisola Ikumelo and Akemnji Ndifornyen, the six-part thriller is set in East London and tells the story of Dom and Kay, two Police Community Support Officers who join the Met Police in the hope of cleaning up their community. However, they quickly find themselves unwittingly thrust into the murky world of deep cover infiltration. For Dom and Kay their lives become more of a fiasco than Donnie Brasco.

Dom, played by Ikumelo, is feisty and takes no nonsense while Animashaun plays Kay her naïve, but surprisingly capable partner who lives with his church elder. The pair are soon thrust into a high stakes secret mission where they find themselves out of their depth facing one of the leaders of the Brightmarsh gang, Tevin, played by Ndifornyen.

The supporting cast includes Ariyon Bakare (His Dark Materials), Joanna Scanlan (After Love); Robbie Gee (Motherland), Jo Martin (Holby City), Felicity Montagu (This Time With Alan Partridge), Colin Hoult (After Life), Jaz Hutchins (Peacock), Rufus Jones (Home), Lucian Msamati (Gangs of London), Katherine Kelly (Innocent), Alex Macqueen (The Thick of It), Emma Sidi (Starstruck), Tyger Drew-Honey (Outnumbered), Alan Ford (Snatch), Kerry Howard (Him & Her) and Zoë Wanamaker (Shadow and Bone).

Black Ops (6x30) is a BBC Studios Comedy Production, co-produced with Mondo Deluxe. It is created and executive produced by Gbemisola Ikumelo, Akemnji Ndifornyen and co-written and executive produced by Joe Tucker and Lloyd Woolf. Josh Cole is the Executive Producer for BBC Studios Productions. The series is directed by Ben Gregor. Black Ops was commissioned for BBC One and BBC iPlayer by Jon Petrie, Director of Comedy at the BBC. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Seb Barwell. BBC Studios is the international distributor for the series.

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Black Ops debuts on BBC One on Friday 5th May at 9:30pm.

The six-part series will then continue airing episodes at the same time each Friday evening.

Source BBC One

May 5, 2023 4:00am ET by BBC One  

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