NBCUniversal’s new streaming service Peacock has just dropped the first trailer for Noughts + Crosses. The YA drama is a UK acquisition, as it first aired on BBC One earlier this year. It is based on Malorie Blackman’s YA book series of the same name.

Here’s the official description: NOUGHTS + CROSSES imagines an alternate universe in which history happened in racial reverse. In this world, Africa – or “Aprica” – invaded Europe centuries ago, enslaving its people. In present-day London, “Albion,” slavery is an institution of the past, but Jim Crow-esque segregation laws maintain the power dynamic: a ruling class of Black “Crosses” control the country’s politics, wealth and culture over an oppressed, impoverished underclass of white “Noughts” who are at the brink of revolt.  Against this backdrop, a forbidden love story unfolds. 

The series stars Jack Rowan, Masali Baduza, Jonathan Ajayi, Helen Baxendale, Paterson Joseph, Josh Dylan, Shaun Dingwall, Jonathan Ajayi, Kike Brimah, Rakie Ayola, Bonnie Mbuli and Ian Hart.

Watch the Peacock trailer below:

 

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