Hugo Blick has made shows about the Israel-Palestine conflict and Rwandan genocide, but today he questioned whether they made “a spits bit of difference” to the world.
But the British auteur isn’t getting down about this and has shifted his precinct to “love and family” for his next show, the BBC’s California Avenue, which he revealed today was made for around a quarter the budget of The English, his previous series, a splashy western for the BBC and Amazon.
“I decided after all this material and experience you gain in being a storyteller that I wanted next to do something straight,” Blick told a Series Mania masterclass. “I wanted to tell a straight story about a family on the run from themselves and the past, who end up in a trailer park in 1975, and they have nothing.”
Starring Bill Nighy, Erin Doherty, Tom Burke and
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