Get Your First Look at Hugh Laurie in Political Thriller 'Roadkill'

The BBC and PBS have released a first look image at Hugh Laurie in upcoming political thriller Roadkill. This new four-part drama is written by British playwright David Hare, who penned the 2018 miniseries Collateral and wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s The Hours.

Laurie stars as charismatic politician Peter Laurence, a self-made former salesman who has risen to the heights of the British government, thanks to a natural gift for populism and a deft ability to navigate the tightrope of Machiavellian party politics. He’s shamelessly untroubled as revelations about his personal life are laid bare. But beset by enemies who want to take him down, ambitious colleagues who want to overtake him, family and lovers who want what he can’t—or won’t—give, and a past that he can’t outrun, will he be able to claim the ultimate political prize? And at what cost?

Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory plays savvy, calculating Prime Minister Dawn Ellison, a conservative leader who's barely clinging to power. Wolf Hall's Saskia Reed plays Laurence's wife, while Normal People's Sarah Green and Poldark's Pip Torrens portray a reporter and an editor at the newspaper fighting a libel suit by Laurence for covering his disastrous personal life.