Aoife Hinds (Dune: Prophecy, Normal People) and Billy Howle (The Perfect Couple, Under the Banner of Heaven) will star in the BBC and A24 TV series The Ministry of Time, based on Kaliane Bradley's bestselling debut novel. Deadline reported that Hinds will play Sophy and Howle will be Commander Graham Gore, with filming beginning in and around London. Additional casting will be announced "in due course," the BBC noted.
The BBC's director of drama Lindsay Salt commissioned the six-part show, which has been adapted and written by Alice Birch, who is an exec producer alongside Aneil Karia and Jo McClellan for the BBC. Frances du Pille is the producer, and A24 has international distribution rights.
"The Ministry of Time is a truly distinctive, genre-defying series with a beautiful central relationship and we are thrilled to have Aoife and Billy leading the cast," said Salt.
"If I could travel back in time six years to tell past me what was going to happen with that polar explorer she'd just started writing about, I think she would have done some very Victorian swooning," Bradley added.