Doctor Who star Matt Smith is to direct his first TV show - an episode of the Sky Arts series Playhouse Presents.
The new run of one-off dramas will include Cargese, described by Sky Arts as a “unique piece of poetic realism which mines the tragic seam of adolescent love and loss”.
Directed by Smith and written by award-winning playwright Simon Stephens, it stars Craig Roberts (Submarine), Joe Cole (Skins, The Hour) and Avigail Tlalim (The Town) as a group of disaffected teenagers in south London - Cargèse being a village on the west coast of Corsica which is wistfully mentioned by one of the drama’s characters.
Cargese begins filming next week and is scheduled to air on Sky Arts 1 on 25 April 2013. Smith will not appear in the programme himself.
our little director
Is it sad that I’m crying because I’m SO PROUD OF HIM AKSLDJSKLHFJDKLGS
April 25 is my birthday! And I live in Sweden where I probably won’t be able to watch this…