At last itv is showing this. It’s been on ITVX and looked fab. Right up my street !!!
so yes some of you may have seen. Many like me Havnt
Stephen Richards, a self-made man, has built a cosmetics empire and become a strong advocate for Black-owned businesses.
Set in a London which seems to enjoy a permanent Instagram filter, the death of the family’s patriarch and the company’s CEO Stephen (Hugh Quarshie) – not a spoiler, it happens in the first ten minutes – prompts an inevitable explosion when it becomes clear that he has left his business to his estranged children from his first marriage, in America, rather than his British family.
Of course, the two sides go to war for control of the multi-million pound enterprise.
We begin with the death of patriarch Stephen Richards (Hugh Quarshie), chief executive of a leading beauty company proudly run for, and by, black people.
The expectation is that his son Gus (Ola Orebiyi) will now take charge and look after the interests of his mother and two younger sisters.
But what Stephen bequeaths his next of kin is a serious shock.
His business empire isn’t being left to the children he raised, but those he abandoned in the US 30 years earlier.
What follows is scene after scene of histrionics and hostilities: bowls are hurled, rooms are stormed out of, lawyers are wielded. For the New York-based marketing executive Nina (Deborah Ayorinde) and stylist brother Simon (Emmanuel Imani), this is an opportunity to reclaim a company co-founded by their mother.
For Stephen’s “main” family, it’s an unpalatable humiliation and a threat to their cosseted lifestyles. “What am I supposed to do with £20k a month?” snaps wife Claudia (an enjoyably combustible Sarah Niles).
Running parallel to the melodramatic power struggles are moments that reflect on the precariousness of black privilege and the freedoms from prejudice that money can’t buy. Urgent observations though these are, it can be hard to reconcile the meaty topics with the hamminess of the execution.