Alan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy Join Cast Of ‘Boarders’ Season 2

Alan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy have been cast in the second season of the BBC and Tubi drama series Boarding guests.

The traitors host Cumming and EastEnders Actress Cassidy will join a cast that includes leads Josh Tedeku, Jodie Campbell, Sekou Diaby, Myles Kamwendo and Aruna Jalloh in the coming-of-age series about five talented inner-city black teenagers who receive scholarships to the prestigious St. Gilbert’s Boarding School. Creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor stars in the series

Cumming will play Alan, a man with high standards for the students at St. Gilbert’s, and Cassidy will appear as Sharon Hail, a teacher at a rival school. Season two begins with a new acting headmistress, Carol Watlington-Geese, who wants the students gone just as they are starting to thrive.

For Cumming, the casting is among his first since inking a production deal with NBCUniversal last June on the back of the success of the Peacock reality series The traitorswhich he hosts. All3Media-backed Studio Lambert, which produces The traitorsdo Boarding guests for the BBC in co-production with Tubi and ZDFneo in collaboration with All3Media International.

“I’ve always said it’s a good idea to let people know you’re a fan of them,” Cumming said. “And that’s how it was Boarding guests. I mentioned this to the producers – who also happen to produce The traitors – and very soon I was on set having so much fun.”

The returning cast includes Niky Wardley, Assa Kanouté, Tallulah Greive, Rosie Graham, Harry Gilby, Georgina Sadler, Zheng Xi Yong, Dillon Mitra, Archie Fisher, Andrew Harmon-Gray, Ruxandra Porojnicu, Kye Malcolm, Llewella Gideon, Mohammed Mansaray, Niyi Akin, Maxim Ays, Al Foran, William Andrews, and Yuriri Naka. Previously announced new cast members include Wunmi Mosaku, Cara Theobold, Michael Salami and Kendra Brown, who plays an American exchange student.

Boarding guests is created by Lawrence Taylor, who is the head writer, with Yemi Oyefuwa, Jeffrey Aidoo and Racheal Ofori writing additional episodes. Joelle Mae David and Sarmad Masud are the directors, with Ali MacPhail producing and Carleen Beadle-Larcombe line producing. Mykaell Riley returns as musical director. Executive producers are Lawrence Taylor, Madeleine Sinclair for Studio Lambert and Nawfal Faizullah and Katherine Bond for the BBC.

Season two launches on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three next month, before rolling out on Tubi across North America and Latin America and on ZDFneo in Germany. All3Media International has distribution rights.