Overview
- The BBC has acquired the eight-part Australian series He Had It Coming and will release it on BBC iPlayer from Saturday 8 August before broadcasting it on BBC Three at 11:15pm on Friday 15 August.
- The show follows two students whose late-night activist vandalism is linked to a campus murder and forces them to cover their tracks as tensions rise on campus.
- The cast is led by Lydia West and Natasha Liu Bordizzo with Liv Hewson and Cody Simpson, and the series was created by Gretel Vella and Craig Anderson and directed by Rachel House and Anne Renton.
- He Had It Coming premiered in Australia last year and drew positive viewer reaction online, prompting international interest and fan calls for a second season.
- BBC acquisition executives said the series stood out for its darkly comic, bingeable tone and its engagement with gender politics, a fit for the broadcaster's iPlayer youth and drama slate and a boost for the show's creators and cast.