Offie Award nominated online series DISTANCED. returns with new cast

After the huge success of its first online series, Distanced. returns next week, with a new cast featuring stars of stage and screen.

Written and directed by Mark Goldthorp, Distanced 2. focuses on the ongoing isolation and connection that has come with the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, with this season specifically looking at how people will adapt moving forward. 

Episodes will be released on Youtube each Friday at 12pm, starting on 14 May. The first scene ‘Christmas Spirit’ stars Paul Ryan and Charlie Stemp, and the theme tune for the series, ’The Space Between’, is performed by Patrick Smyth, written by Mark Goldthorp, and arranged by Matthew Brind.

Distanced 2. will feature Samuel Barnett (Netflix’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency), Aaron Sidwell (Eastenders, Wicked, American Idiot), Ayesha Antoine (Holby City, Grange Hill), Paul Ryan (Brexit: The Uncivil War, Ghosts), Charlie Stemp (Hello Dolly on Broadway, Mary Poppins, Half a Sixpence), Thomas Aldridge (Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, Made in Dagenham, Les Miserables). 

Goldthorp said: “I was overwhelmed by the response to the first series which documented one of the strangest times of our lives; the first lockdown. I found the video conferencing world very rich territory to excavate. We then went into subsequent lockdowns which I wanted to explore again and find a fitting end to the series. I was delighted to be funded to make series two and we have an amazing cast which will end our Distanced journey with a fitting finale.”

The series is filmed & edited by Alex Bourne (Annie, Mamma Mia, We Will Rock You) .

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