Maryland release date revealed for new ITV drama with Suranne Jones

New three-part drama Maryland is on its way to ITV with a start date now confirmed!

The series is created by BAFTA and RTS award winning actress, Suranne Jones, and screenwriter Anne-Marie O’Connor.

The drama is about two sisters who have grown apart over the years, but through tragic events learn to love and respect one another all over again.

Maryland focuses upon the relationship between the sisters, who have been driven apart by complex family dynamics, becoming estranged and wrapped up in their own lives.

Maryland will start on ITV1 from Monday, 22 May at 9PM. The three-part series will continue nightly on Tuesday, 23 May and conclude on Wednesday, 24 May.

You’ll also be able to watch online via ITVX.

As well as co-creating the show, Suranne Jones (Gentleman Jack, Save Me, Vigil) will star as down-to-earth, Manchester born, Becca.

Joining her are Eve Best (House of the Dragon, Nurse Jackie) as Rosaline and Oscar nominated Stockard Channing (The Good Wife, The West Wing) as Cathy and George Costigan (OGentleman Jack, Happy Valley) as Richard.

Also starring Hugh Quarshie (Stephen, Riches), Dean Lennox Kelly (Tom Jones, Jamestown) and Andrew Knott (Ackley Bridge, Tin Star).

Suranne Jones said: “I’m so excited to be working with Anne Marie on this project. We both immediately knew how we wanted this story to unfold and to have the support from ITV and Monumental Television to let us tell it in our own way has been a breath of fresh air.

“Maryland delves into family dynamics and the way in which we ‘label’ each other, sometimes never letting ourselves or our siblings break free from those roles. We look at how we grow apart from one another and how sometimes we don’t really know anything about the people we call our own.

Suranne continued: “I love how complex sibling relationships can be and I’m thrilled we get to do it over 3 wonderful hours and not as a ‘side story’. Maryland is an uncomfortable, funny and sometimes difficult story with two sisters at its heart and we can’t wait to take our audience along for the ride.”

A full synopsis of the show reveals: “In Maryland, Anne-Marie introduces us to the characters of Becca and her sister, Rosaline, who have forged ahead with family lives and careers, growing distant through time and circumstance.

“But when the body of an older woman is discovered at sunrise on Laxey Beach in the Isle of Man, it brings devastating news for the sisters.

“Each sister flies out to the Isle of Man to discover and repatriate the body of their mother, Mary, who they learn has been living a double life, leaving their father Richard at home in Manchester, whilst creating another world for herself….. Maryland.

“Confined on the island with each other, the sisters can’t escape the ripple effect of their mother’s secrets and lies.”