The six-part series on for 3 weeks every Sunday and Monday at 9pm
will star Martin Clunes as a farmer confronted with dark forces that begin seeping into his rural community, as per the log line.
Clunes plays Nathan Williams, a man grieving the death of his wife two years prior.
Now a single parent, Nathan finds himself embarking on a mission to protect his family, homestead and legacy when his son and livelihood are threatened by local county lines drug dealers.
He’s missed all the clues that the country idyll around him has been fatally compromised, contaminated by waves of criminality spreading and mutating virus-like from the city.
"Now Nathan must accept that the rustic atmosphere of his childhood is long gone, replaced by something altogether more edgy and perilous.
And the only way for Nathan, our hero, to survive in this brave new world is to learn the rules and fight back.
The series will also feature Louis Ashbourne Serkis as Johnny, Mark Lewis Jones as Caleb Williams, Natalia Kostrzewa as Eva, Carly-Sophia Davies as Sadie and Gerran Howell as Rhys.
Out There” is the slang used by urban drug dealers to describe a “countryside” they hardly know and yet greedily exploit through County Lines.
Welsh farmer, NATHAN will stop at nothing to protect his son and farm. Nathan’s son, JOHNNY has reconnected with an old friend, RHYS, now a local drug dealer.
Rhys manages to trick Johnny into running drugs for him.
On learning part of this, Nathan tries to sort things out for Johnny the best way he knows how: by threatening Rhys and trying to pay off the debt without involving the police.
County lines is a particularly vicious and ruthless wave of drug dealing that uses fear and violence to coerce, often vulnerable, young people into working as runners and dealers,"