Paramount+ has released the official trailer for UK original drama series Insomnia, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by bestselling author Sarah Pinborough.
The six-part series, produced by Left Bank in association with All3Media’s Build Your Own Films, is debuting exclusively on Paramount+ in the UK on 23rd May. Global sales are handled by Sony Pictures Television.
Watch the trailer in the player below:
Vicky McClure (Line of Duty, Trigger Point, This Is England) leads the cast as successful career woman Emma Averill. The series follows Emma, who fears she might be losing her mind when her hard-won dream life starts to turn into a nightmare. A couple of weeks before her fortieth birthday, Emma stops sleeping — just as her mother had done right before she suffered a violent psychotic breakdown on the night of her own fortieth birthday. Emma’s mother always told her she’d go the same way, that she had the same “bad blood” and now Emma’s terrified it’s true.
As events worsen, Emma’s world starts to unravel and she realises that only by investigating the truth of her painful past, can she find the answers to her present and prevent tragedy from striking a second time.
Tom Cullen (The Gold), is Emma’s loving husband Robert; Smylie Bradwell (Wisting) and India Fowler (The Nevers) are Will and Chloe, Emma and Tom’s children; Leanne Best (Bolan’s Shoes) is Emma’s estranged sister Phoebe; Corinna Marlowe (Hysteria) is Emma’s mother Patricia and Lyndsey Marshal (Inside Man) is Caroline, Emma’s friend and confidante.
Additional cast for Insomnia includes Dominic Tighe (Suspicion) and Jade Harrison (Wedding Season) who will play the Averill family’s close friends Julian and Michelle Simpson, whilst Robert Gilbert (Killing Eve) is Faisal and Michelle Bonnard (Unforgotten) is D.I Hildreth.
Börkur Sigthorsson (The Midwich Cuckoos, Baptiste) directed Insomnia, and joins fellow Executive Producers Andy Harries, Jessica Burdett and Tim Bricknell. Charlotte Essex is Producer on the series. Sarah Pinborough is the writer, who has adapted her novel for screen, as well as serving as Executive Producer. The series was ordered by Sebastian Cardwell, Deputy Chief Content Officer, UK, Paramount.
