“Unlike anything else on TV. ☆☆☆☆” — Daily Mail Weekend
“This tooth-rattling, future shock-thriller ROARS OFF THE STARTER-GRID” — Daily Telegraph
“If you’ve been waiting patiently for the next big Sky Original, CURFEW IS IT. Gripping from the outset, this genre-bending eight-part series WILL HAVE YOU SPELLBOUND” — The Sun
Get ready for Curfew… It’s time to race your way free!
When dusk falls, ordinary people compete
for freedom in the world’s deadliest street race. Over one long, crazy, unforgettable
night they will compete for the ultimate prize — liberation from the curfew
that controls their lives.
Curfew is set in the near future. By day the world seems very
much like the world we know – but at night the shutters come down, the streets
are cleared and a curfew is enforced. The curfew is there to protect the
population from an infectious virus that has decimated the country – but some
people think the rules and regulations that have come with it are too great a
price to pay.
The race offers the contestants a chance
to escape the world of the curfew; the chance for a better life in a better
world. To race is to embrace rebellion and recklessness; but also hope, bravery
and self-belief.
When night comes twenty-five teams line up
in South London for the start of the race. They set off at breakneck speed and
it doesn’t let up until they cross the finish line in the Scottish Highlands.
There can only be one winner – that’s the one rule – but before we find out who
that’s going to be we’re going to see each team pushed to the very limit.
Alliances will be made and broken, friendships won and lost: parents separated
from their children, lovers ripped apart – all for the chance of freedom. Along
the way we’re going to dig deep into the past of the racers to understand just
what pushed them to take their lives into their own hands in the first place.
Curfew is an insane blast of chrome and diesel fumes, fast and
furious, irreverent and mischievous, moving and violent. A real
popcorn, blockbuster treat, with characters that will move us, and spectacle
that will thrill us.
Starring an ensemble cast including Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Billy Zane (Titanic), Miranda Richardson (Churchill) and Adrian Lester (Riviera), Adam Brody (The O.C.), Phoebe Fox (The Woman in Black 2) and Malachi Kirby (Black Mirror).
Curfew is written and executive produced by Matthew Read (Pusher, Hammer of the Gods). The series is produced by Tiger Aspect Productions in association with Moonage Pictures and is executive produced by Will Gould and Frith Tiplady and directed by Colm McCarthy (The Girl With All The Gifts, Peaky Blinders). Sky Vision handle distribution rights.
