Casting has been announced for The Hardacres, the new 6 x 60’ period drama for Channel 5 from Playground (All Creatures Great and Small).

Currently filming on location in Dublin and Wicklow, Ireland, the new series is based on CL Skelton’s best-selling series of novels ‘The Hardacre Saga’.  Banijay Rights will handle international distribution for the series.

The Hardacres is billed as a “sweeping rags to riches story that follows the lives, loves and fortunes of the working class Hardacre family as they move from a grimy fish dock to a vast country estate in 1890’s Yorkshire.”

With release planned for 2024, SARAH AGHA will be playing the role of Betsy across all episodes.