EXCLUSIVE: BBC One has tapped Shameless and What Remains star David Threlfall to play the lead in their one-off drama The Ark, a “retelling” of the biblical story of Noah and The Ark which recently entered production on location in Morocco and is described as a “timeless tale of faith and family”.
The Ark will tell the story of Noah, a farmer and family man who is instructed by an angel to build an ark in the middle of a desert in order to save both his family and the faithful from a devastating flood. A seemingly impossible task, especially when his sons refuse to believe him and help, Noah risks ridicule and humiliation from the degenerate townsfolk as well as his loving but exasperated family, in his quest to carry out his God-given task.