Film Music Reporter

Vince Pope (True Detective: Night Country, Black Mirror: Be Right Back, Resistance, Mr Bates vs. the Post Office, No Offence, You & Me, Misfits, Wolfe) & Ayanna Witter-Johnson (Hostile) are the composers of the new Sky original limited series Possession. The show is created by Karla Crome based on an original story by Jefferson Bannis and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jonny Lee Miller, Sheldon Shepherd, Bel Powley, Nadean Rawlins, Sean Gilder, Olunike Adeliyi, Richard Dillane, Diveen Henry, Jack Bandeira, Shantol Jackson, Jeff Crossley and Safina Simpson. The 5-part thriller directed by Storm Saulter (Better Mus’ Come, Sprinter) follows an ambitious young bi‑racial lawyer who travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim made by a local man against a wealthy white aristocrat, but the case takes an unsettling turn when she discovers that the disputed estate is the very place that has haunted her nightmares. Crome, Saulter, Mbatha-Raw & Lee Miller are also executive producing the Snowed-In & Sky Studios production with Ruth Kenley-Letts & Neil Blair (Mrs. Wilson, The Midwich Cuckoos), Jenny van der Lande (Joan, You Don’t Know Me), Sam Hoyle (The Day of the Jackal, Mary & George) and Serena Thompson (Landscapers, Domina). Possession will premiere in the UK tomorrow, August 6 on Sky and will also be available to stream on NOW.