THE STREET

Premiering on BBC Entertainment (channel 120 on DStv) on August 17 at 20h30 is the six-episodes first series of The Street) which will continue every Tuesday at 20h30.

The Street is a star-studded new drama from award winning writer Jimmy McGovern, featuring moving and witty stories of friendship, family, love and betrayal.
Each episode concentrates on a different house in the street, and while each story is self-contained, all six are linked by a sense of community and shared experience. The extraordinary stories about ordinary people are brought to life by a high profile cast led by Jane Horrocks, Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, David Schofield and Sue Johnston.

Every door in The Street hides a story, and the relationships and emotions are those that everyone can understand. In the opening episode, Angela Quinn, a bored wife and mother, embarks on a fun and passionate affair with a married neighbour. Then her world is turned upside down by dramatic events that see her lover become her arch enemy.

There are mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, a wife and her lover, a husband and wife falling in love all over again 40 years on, an unexpected friendship that turns the life of an ordinary taxi driver upside down, and two battling sisters, drawn back together by the breakdown of a marriage. Above all, The Street is about love. Love stories as unexpected, messy and exuberant as real life itself.