ITV picks up Four Years Later, Austin.

Britain’s ITV has picked up upcoming Australian drama Four Years Later.

The 8 part romance which delves into the complex ways love can change over time and distance, is being filming by Easy Tiger for SBS, in Mumbai, Jaipur, and Sydney.

The series explores the love story of Sridevi and Yash, who have to endure four years apart right after their wedding when Yash lands a medical traineeship in Australia.

It follows Yash and Sridevi’s turbulent time apart and reconnection – two timelines, two worlds, told through dual perspectives and explores themes of the changing nature of love, intimacy and belonging as you change within yourself and asks what it takes to find your way back to someone you have deeply loved after so long apart.

The series stars Indian actors Akshay Ajit Singh (24: India) playing Yash and Shahana Goswami (Bombay Begums, A Suitable Boy) as Sridevi.

Created by Mithila Gupta (Five Bedrooms, Bump) and featuring a writing team all with South Asian heritage, Mithila, Nicole Reddy and S. Shakthidharan, the series is directed by Mohini Herse (Appetite) and Fadia Abboud (Year Of, Five Bedrooms).

Easy Tiger’s Ian Collie tells TV Tonight, “The shorthand is it’s an Indian Normal People. We’re doing our chemistry tests in India. We’ve got a shortlist of roughly about four of each gender, and so we’re seeing if the sparks fly between the two.

“It’s great to know that we’re bringing through the next generation of talent.”

It will screen on SBS later this year.

ITV has also confirmed Northern Pictures comedy Austin, which is set to screen on ABC.

The series features Michael Theo (Love on the Spectrum) in an acting role, as Austin, the neurodivergent son that children’s author Julian Hartswood (Ben Miller) never knew existed. Could embracing this modern nuclear family be Julian’s route back from cancellation? Will wife Ingrid (Sally Phillips) forgive him for being such a pompous shit? One thing is for certain: if Julian thinks Austin is going to be a push over, he’s in for a rude awakening.