The Gallows Pole: When will new Shane Meadows drama be on TV?
Michael Socha leads the cast of The Gallows Pole, a new drama from the acclaimed writer and director Shane Meadows.
An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers, it will focus on the rise of the Cragg Vale Coiners, a gang of counterfeiters in 18th-century Yorkshire.
A synopsis on the Radio Times states: "David Hartley [Socha] returns to his family's moor-top dwelling after seven years in Birmingham.
"The area has declined in the time he has been away and while he is broken physically, he now has cash, and is determined to change his community for the better."
Meadows is best known for writing and directing the 2006 film This Is England and its television sequels during the 2010s.
Most recently he headed up the 2019 drama series The Virtues, starring Stephen Graham, which broadcast on ITV.
The Gallows Pole full cast
Michael Socha as David Hartley
Sophie McShera as Grace Hartley
Thomas Turgoose as William Hartley
Samuel Edward-Cook as Isaac Hartley
Yusra Warsama as Bethsheba
Nicole Barber-Lane as Susie
Jordan Preston as Stagman
Ralph Ineson as The Clothier
Dave Perkins as Tom Hartley
Stuart Zubrzycki as Billy Vardy
Anthony Welsh
Adam Fogerty
Eve Burley
When will The Gallows Pole be on TV?
The first episode of The Gallows Pole will air at 9 pm on Wednesday, May 31 on BBC Two.
There will be two further episodes which will air at the same time on a Wednesday in the corresponding weeks.