6 × 30’ | Comedy–Drama | Rural Kent Village 

A darkly funny comedy‑drama about receding fame, rural reinvention, and the quiet menace beneath ‘idyllic’ village life.

Down From London is a darkly funny comedy-drama about receding fame, rural reinvention, and the quiet menace beneath ‘idyllic’ village life.

Tom, a faded Britpop bass-player turned vegan beekeeper-in-training, and Nyla — formerly Barbara — a Black ex-model rebranding her curated life, swap London for a Kent village post-lockdown in search of fresh air, purpose, and a reset.

As the world restarts, their new life proves anything but tranquil. The local primary-school PTA is a swingers’ paradise. Nyla attracts the obsessive attention of a local teenage girl. An impulsively purchased goat triggers an all-out war with the WI.

As Nyla confronts the village’s quiet biases and her own past, and Tom chases compostable purpose, their marriage begins to fracture — and reform — in unexpected ways.

A story about reinvention, belonging, and learning to live slower, deeper, and a lot weirder.

Status: 

In development