The Hardacres is a sweeping rags to riches story that follows the lives, loves and fortunes of the working class Hardacre family as they move from a grimy fish dock to a vast country estate in 1890’s Yorkshire.
The new series is based on CL Skelton’s best-selling series of novels ‘The Hardacre Saga’.
The six-part drama is set in 1890s Yorkshire, and is based on a series of novels by CL Skelton, telling the rags-to-riches tale of the titular working-class family.
A bold, gutsy ensemble family drama full of heart, The Hardacres places an ordinary family in an extraordinary position and explores the age-old question – can money ever buy true happiness?
The Hardacre family consists of Claire Cooper (The Continental, The Peripheral) and Liam McMahon (Hunger, The Secret, Warrior Nun) as loving married couple Mary and Sam Hardacre, who land on hard times following an accident at work on the docks, which leaves them unemployed and broke.
Meanwhile, a synopsis for the first episode reads: "After an unfortunate accident befalls dock worker Sam Hardacre, he and his family lose their jobs at the docks and must race to find work or else end up on the streets.
"His wife Mary, daughter Liza and mother-in-law Ma venture to the gilded halls of country estate Thornton Hall in search of work."
Alongside, Julie Graham (Time, Ridley, Penance), starring as Mary’s wily mother, Ma, and their three kids, Joe, Liza, and Harry, played by Adam Little (Ackley Bridge, Coronation Street), newcomer Shannon Lavelle and Zak Ford-Williams(Better)
the family band together to think fast with a business venture that will free them from their humble existence on the North Yorkshire Coast and catapult them into high society.
Also joining the series are Holly Sturton (The School for Good and Evil) as AdellaFitzherbert, Cathy Belton (Miss Scarlet & The Duke,The Catch, Philomena) as Lady Emma and Owen Roe (Michael Collins, Vikings, Penny Dreadful) as George, making up the well to do Fitzherbert Family and new neighbours of The Hardacres. Ingrid Craigie (Blood, Blackshore, You Are Not My Mother) is housekeeper Mrs Dryden,with Siobhan O’Kelly (The Tourist S2) as Lena Temple, and Sarah Agha as Betsy Temple and Taheen Modak (The Bay) as Calum Saunders.