Jamie Bamber has landed the lead in The Smoke, a new firefighter drama for Sky1. The Battlestar Galactica actor headlines the eight-part series, which comes from writer Lucy Kirkwood and the production company Kudos.
Set among White Watch, a team of London firefighters, the drama centres on Bamber’s character Kev, a well-liked fireman returning to the job after being badly injured and betrayed during the worst blaze of his career. As he comes back to the watch, Kev has to cope not just with the physical scars but with the mental toll of what happened to him.
The series promises to set its large-scale rescue sequences against a close, character-driven look at the people who run into burning buildings for a living. Rhashan Stone, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Taron Egerton have also joined the cast.