‘Top Boy’s Jasmine Jobson To Lead ITVX Drama ‘Platform 7’

Jasmine Jobson , who plays tough street soldier Jaq in Netflix's Top Boy , has been cast as the lead of ITVX psychological drama series Platform 7 .

The series has been shooting in the north of England for several months. It follows Jobson as Lisa, who after a witnessing a cataclysmic event on platform 7 of a railway station, finds her own fragmented memory jogged to reveal a connection between her own life and that of the traumatic event.

Jobson's star has been rising through her Top Boy role, which landed her a BAFTA nomination. She has also appeared in BBC One's Noughts and Crosses . Toby Regbo ( Chivalry, A Discovery of Witches ), Yaamin Chowdhury ( The Lazarus Project, The Essex Serpent ) and Phil Davis ( Trying, Viewpoint ) also star.

Fremantle's Dancing Ledge Productions is making Platform 7 for streamer ITVX, which gets the series premiere several months ahead of UK network ITV. Fremantle has international distribution rights.

Paula Milne is adapting the series from a novel by Louise Doughty, whose previous work Apple Tree Yard was made by ITV. Doughty is also the creative force behind Crossfire , which Dancing Ledge made for The BBC.

Dancing Ledge's Chris Carey and Laurence Bowen and Kate Triggs are executive producers alongside, Milne and Doughty.