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'First Woman': Ben Miles, Jimmy Akingbola & More Join ITV & ZDF Drama
- Deadline confirms the main cast for ITV and ZDF’s space drama First Woman, with Ben Miles and Shazad Latif among new additions.
- The six-part series centers on Claire Reith, a biologist who vanishes during a lunar mission, triggering suspicion at Mission Control and on Earth.
- Production is underway in Northern Ireland with Mammoth Screen and Alcon Television Group co-producing for ITV Studios and ZDF.
- The UK broadcast plan includes ITV1 and STV, with streaming on ITVX and STV Player, while ZDF holds German rights.
- Executive producers include Mammoth Screen's Damien Timmer and Alcon's Broderick Johnson and Scott Parish.
- Ben Miles, Jimmy Akingbola, Kathryn Gallagher, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Shazad Latif and Fra Fee join the cast as part of the ensemble.
- First Woman is described as cinematic in scale and an ITV commission produced with Mammoth Screen and Alcon Television Group.
- Mammoth Screen's Rebecca Keane oversaw development, with producers and executive producers named for the project.
- The project marks ITV Studios' international collaboration with ZDF for a lunar-themed drama.
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