We’re excited about this one. A new eight-part drama, Mr Loverman, based on the acclaimed 2013 novel by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, is heading to BBC One and iPlayer.
The icing of the cake?
It’s starring Line of Duty’s Lennie James (however,if you haven’t seen his particularly knockout performance as down and out womaniser Nelly in Sky Atlantic drama Save Me, do), as exuberant protagonist Barrington Jedidiah Walker.
Lennie James will star in Mr Loverman – image Antonio Olmos
Says Lennie, ‘I can’t wait to get Barrington’s swagger on and help tell this crucial and complicated love story. As funny as it is sad. As full of heart as it is heartache…’
It’s one of our favourite novels at Conch Africa – and now, the trailblazing Mr Loverman is being adapted into a BBC One drama…
A life-affirming tale about family, love, and being true to yourself, it tells the story of Barrington Jedidiah Walker, Esq. (or ‘Barry’, to his mates)Trouble to his wife, his daughters, and his lover.
Seventy years old, Antiguan-born, exuberant Hackney personality, Barry is renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, senses that Barry has been cheating on her with other women. Little does she know, what’s really going on: on the contrary, a secret, decades-long passionate affair with his best friend and soulmate, Morris.
Bernardine Evardine’s rip-roaring tale Mr Loverman is coming to TV
Now entering the next chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make and in the same way, set to force his whole family to question their own futures.
With filming beginning later this year, it will also bring to life, and similarly showcase Bernardine Evaristo’s ground-breaking exploration of Britain’s older Caribbean community. Mr Loverman paints an incisive portrait of a family, exploring aspirations and regret, parenthood, and social expectations about sexual orientation and love.
Mr Loverman author, Bernadette Evaristo. Photo credit: @bernardinevaristo
Evaristo says: ‘I am thrilled that Mr Loverman is being adapted and I also love the idea of stepping beyond the pages of the novel and into people’s living rooms and lives then.’
Well, the story is exquisite, but we are however hoping that they bring that same magic to the small screen.
