HBO and the BBC have finally announced the release date window for Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd‘s newest drama series, Half Man. In addition, new images from the upcoming show featuring Gadd and Jamie Bell‘s characters, as well as their younger counterparts, have also been unveiled.
“Niall and Ruben are brothers. Not related in blood, but the closest you can get. One, fierce and loyal. The other, meek and mild-mannered. Inseparable youth. Brought into each other’s lives through death and circumstance, all they have is each other . . . But when Ruben turns up at Niall’s wedding three decades later, everything seems different. He is on edge. Shifty. Not acting like himself. And soon, an explosion of violence takes place, which catapults us back through their lives, from the eighties to the present day,” reads the official logline.
“Capturing 30 years in the lives of these broken men, it is a six-part limited series exploring brotherhood, violence, and the intense fragility of male relationships. After all, when things fall apart… It is sometimes the closest relationships that break the hardest.”
When is the release date window for Baby Reindeer creator’s new HBO show?
Half Man is scheduled to debut in April on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, and on BBC iPlayer, BBC One, and BBC Scotland in the UK and Ireland. The cast also includes Stuart Campbell, Mitchell Robertson, Neve McIntosh, Marianne McIvor, Charlie De Melo, Bilal Hasna, Julie Cullen, Amy Manson, Anjli Mohindra, Tim Downie, Tom Andrews, Philippine Velge, Stuart McQuarrie, Sandy Batchelor, Piers Ewart, and Scot Greenan, along with newcomers Charlotte Blackwood, Calum Manchip, and Kate Robson-Stuart.
The six-part drama is created, written, and executive-produced by Gadd, who won three Emmy Awards for his work on Netflix’s 2024 miniseries Baby Reindeer. Executive producers are Sophie Gardiner, Anna O’Malley, Gaynor Holmes for the BBC, Gavin Smith for BBC Scotland, Tally Garner & Morven Reid for Mam Tor Productions, with Alexandra Brodski and Eshref Reybrouck serving as directors.