Andrew Hayden-Smith shares first picture from ‘Banana’ set
By Nick Levine
Andrew Hayden-Smith has shared the first picture from the set of E4’s forthcoming gay-themed drama series Banana.
The series, from Queer As Folk creator Russell T Davies, promises to show viewers “50 shades of gay and beyond”, and is the “partner drama” to Davies’s forthcoming gay-themed Channel 4 series Cucumber.
The main cast for Banana was announced on Friday (June 6), and includes Attitude contributor Hayden-Smith, who previously worked with Russell T Davies on Doctor Who. Shooting got underway in Manchester over the weekend.
Check out Hayden-Smith on the set of Banana on Sunday (June 8), pictured alongside Fisayo Akinade, who appears in both Banana and Cucumber.
Alongside Hayden-Smith, the main Banana cast includes Waterloo Road actress Georgia Henshaw, Top Boy‘s Letitia Right, Hannah John-Kamen from Happy Valley and comedian Bethany Black. Click here for further details.
Meanwhile, the main cast for Cucumber was announced last month (May), and includes former Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh – click here for further details.
Cucumber and Banana will be accompanied by an online partner show, Tofu, which is described as “an anarchic and entertaining factual series about sex – from gay to straight, and anything in between – inspired by the dramas each week”.