Sun, sea and sexual desire collide in TWO WEEKS IN AUGUST, a new BBC comedy drama following a group of friends who pack their bags for a Greek getaway — only to find that paradise has a way of exposing everything they’d rather keep hidden. Many of the group are now married with young families, arriving with hopes of fun in the sun, but an illicit liaison soon threatens to unravel their best-laid plans, stirring up frustrations and resentments that have clearly been simmering long before anyone boarded the plane.

The series comes from the production team behind I MAY DESTROY YOU, and carries something of the DNA of THE WHITE LOTUS — except here, the existential dread arrives alongside mortgage pressures and childcare dilemmas rather than luxury excess. At the heart of this holiday from hell is Irish actor Damien Molony, who plays Dan, a man quietly wrestling with personal demons and the widening cracks in his marriage to Zoe, played by Jessica Raine. Speaking in his own Irish accent, Molony describes his character as someone who is a little bit broken and doesn’t know how to put himself back together again — a reluctant holidaymaker with neither the energy nor the headspace for a group trip abroad.

Filmed on location in Malta but set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Greece, TWO WEEKS IN AUGUST takes an unexpected turn by leaning into the supernatural, with Greek mythology and the presence of the Gods weaving heavily through the story — adding an otherworldly charge to what is already a pressure-cooker of unspoken truths and combustible relationships.