Also cast in Supacell are Nadine Mills (Sliced) as Sabrina, Eric Kofi Abrefa (Blue Story) as Andre, Calvin Demba (Life) as Rodney, Josh Tedeku (A Town Called Malice) as Tazer, Rayxia Ojo (Call The Midwife) as Sharleen and Giacomo Mancini (Top Boy) as Spud.<\/p>\n
The six-parter will follow five Black South Londoners who unexpectedly develop superpowers, with Cole\u2019s character Michael tasked with bringing them all together in order to save the woman he loves.<\/p>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>The series will be executive produced by rapper\/producer and Blue Story writer\/director Rapman, who will also direct episodes 1, 2 and 6, with the remaining instalments being helmed by Sebastian Thiel (Dreaming Whilst Black).<\/p>\n
Production will get underway later this month in South London, with a project known as the Supacell Six Scheme running alongside.<\/p>\n
The scheme \u2013 founded by Rapman, New Wave and Netflix \u2013 is designed to give Black creatives the opportunity to break into the TV industry and will give six chosen candidates the opportunity to grow in their chosen field through shadowing crew, access to experts in their field and additional up-skilling courses.<\/p>\n
Netflix<\/a> is yet to announce a release date for the series.<\/p> Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out our lists of the\u00a0best series on Netflix<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0best movies on Netflix<\/a>, see what else is on with our\u00a0<\/strong>TV Guide<\/strong><\/a>, or visit our\u00a0<\/strong>Drama<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0hub for more news and features.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door. For more from the biggest stars in TV, l<\/strong>isten to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Morgan Jeffery Published: Thursday, 11 August 2022 at 12:00 am Netflix has announced a new original superhero series, with some familiar faces in the cast. Tosin Cole will lead Supacell as Michael Lasaki, with Adelayo Adedayo also set to appear as Dionne. Cole is best known for portraying companion Ryan Sinclair in Doctor Who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":20158,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/doctor-who-and-the-responder-stars-join-netflix-superhero-series-supacell.jpg",1748,1163,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/doctor-who-and-the-responder-stars-join-netflix-superhero-series-supacell-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/doctor-who-and-the-responder-stars-join-netflix-superhero-series-supacell-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/doctor-who-and-the-responder-stars-join-netflix-superhero-series-supacell-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/doctor-who-and-the-responder-stars-join-netflix-superhero-series-supacell-1024x681.jpg",800,532,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/doctor-who-and-the-responder-stars-join-netflix-superhero-series-supacell-1536x1022.jpg",1536,1022,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/doctor-who-and-the-responder-stars-join-netflix-superhero-series-supacell.jpg",1748,1163,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Morgan Jeffery Published: Thursday, 11 August 2022 at 12:00 am Netflix has announced a new original superhero series, with some familiar faces in the cast. Tosin Cole will lead Supacell as Michael Lasaki, with Adelayo Adedayo also set to appear as Dionne. Cole is best known for portraying companion Ryan Sinclair in Doctor Who…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/20157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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