Airdate: Decline & Fall

BBC First will screen UK period drama Decline & Fall, an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, in August.

The 3 part series series stars Jack Whitehall (Bad Education, Fresh Meat) and Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives).

It also features David Suchet (Poirot), Vincent Franklin (Happy Valley, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell), Douglas Hodge (The Night Manager, Penny Dreadful), Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones), Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire).

This screened in the UK in March.

Anarchic, stylish and hilarious, Decline and Fall is a dazzling three-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s hugely popular novel starring Jack Whitehall and Eva Longoria.

The comedy follows Paul Pennyfeather (Jack Whitehall), an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s, who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.

Paul is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba, an obscure public school in Wales. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prenergast, who’s plagued by doubts, and Captain Grime, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk).

Sports day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, played by Eva Longoria. For Paul, it is love at first sight, but little does he know the surprises that lie ahead of him when he agrees to tutor her son over the summer holidays.

Saturdays at 8.30pm from August 12 on BBC First.