The BBC has announced First Day On Earth, a new ten-part drama from I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel

Michaela Coel came to prominence in 2017 when she wrote and starred in the quirky E4 sitcom Chewing Gum. Her next project was the searing BBC drama I May Destroy You, which chronicled a woman’s experience of sexual assault. The show won a plethora of awards, including the BAFTA for Best Actress, and Coel became the first black woman to win the Emmy for Putstanding Writing in a Limited Series.

The BBC has now announced Coel’s new drama, First Day On Earth, a co-production with HBO.

The synopsis reads as follows:

British novelist Henri (Michaela Coel) 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...