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Claire Foy and Matthew Macfayden to star in new series from author behind Netflix hit One Day

The Crown actress Claire Foy and Succession's Matthew Macfadyen will star in the TV adaptation of You Are Here, which is based on the book by One Day author David Nicholls

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Claire Foy will join Matthew Macfadyen in the TV adaptation of You Are Here(Image: Getty Images)

Claire Foy and Matthew Macfadyen have become the 'dream casting' for author David Nicholls in an upcoming BBC adaptation of his best-selling novel You Are Here.

Nicholls, the acclaimed British author behind One Day, said it was a 'pleasure and a thrill' to see the duo bring his hit will-they-or-won't-they romance to life on the small screen.

Claire, best known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the early series of Netflix hit The Crown, will join Succession star Matthew as middle-aged singletons Marnie and Michael in the new drama series.

The novel, released in 2024, and follows two strangers thrown together by a mutual friend before undertaking a coast-to-coast walk across the English countryside.

The BBC and Starz are adapting the novel, with Nicholls also writing the eight-part series, which will be directed by Normal Peoples Lenny Abrahamson.

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Claire is best known for playing Queen Elizabeth in the early series of The Crown

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Matthew played Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series Succession(Image: PA)

A spokesperson for the BBC said the story is about finding a connection when you least expect it and overcoming the obstacles of midlife.

Set along the Coast to Coast walking trail from the Lake District to Robin Hoods Bay in North Yorkshire, the series will be filmed in the Lake District and around Manchester.

Nicholls said he was delighted to be working on the adaptation, saying he admired Abrahamsons work and called Foy and Macfadyen his dream casting.

The intention with the novel was to write a close-up study of a relationship, but set against this magnificent landscape, and thats our ambition here too; to make something both intimate and epic, funny and dramatic, a romantic comedy with real emotion. We cant wait to bring Marnie and Michaels journey to the screen, he added.

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One Day became a hit for Netflix when it was released in 2024

Abrahamson said: As a huge admirer of Davids writing, Im delighted to be collaborating with him to bring You Are Here to the screen. The novel is such a beautiful love story funny, profound and ultimately deeply hopeful. Im also extremely excited to have Claire and Matthew, two actors I hugely admire, playing Michael and Marnie.

Element Pictures executive producer Ed Guiney said You Are Here feels to us like a drama the world needs right now life-affirming, positive, funny and full of charm.

The BBCs director of drama Lindsay Salt said the book was packed full of charm, humour, heartache and joy and that viewers of the series were in for a treat.

Nicholls also shared a post on Instagram in which he said: Despite all the dialogue (because of all the dialogue) it has been a tough book to adapt so much is unexpressed, and thats in part the theme of the book, the difficulty of saying what one really feels.

But thats also the pleasure of adaptation and the thrill of working with amazing actors. The rest of the cast are great more on that soon.

The authors third novel One Day which was released in 2009 has also previously been adapted, first into a 2011 movie starring Anne Hathaway and then into a 2024 Netflix series that starred Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod.

His novel Starter For Ten was also adapted into a 2006 film starring James McAvoy, while another of his books Us was turned into a 2020 TV series starring Tom Hollander.

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