Gugu Mbatha-Raw leads possession sky as Claudia, and the five-part Sky Original thriller premieres on Sky Atlantic on Thursday 6 August. All five episodes land on demand the same day, so viewers get the whole run at once instead of a weekly drip.
Claudia in Hope Hill
Claudia is an ambitious lawyer whose inheritance case pulls her from Bristol to Jamaica, where she challenges a claim brought by Cudjoe East against Oliver Connaught. That setup gives the series a clear engine: one legal dispute, one family estate, and a story that moves straight from paperwork to pressure.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw leads the cast as Claudia, with Jonny Lee Miller as Oliver Connaught and Sheldon Shepherd as Cudjoe East. Karla Crome created and wrote the series from an original story by Jefferson Bannis, while Storm Saulter directs, which keeps the project anchored in a specific creative team rather than a broad genre label.
Hope Hill on Sky Atlantic
Hope Hill is a Jamaican great house owned by Oliver's family for generations, and the series frames it as more than a backdrop. Claudia and Oliver investigate together, uncovering links between the plantation's brutal past and present-day injustices, so the inheritance dispute becomes part legal problem and part reckoning with what the house has carried forward.
The cast around them includes Bel Powley as Charlotte, Nadean Rawlins as Mercy, Sean Gilder as Tom McKenzie, Oluniké Adeliyi as Patsy Dawkins, Richard Dillane as Eugene Desfrienes, Diveen Henry as Flora and Jack Bandeira as Kenneth Connaught. That roster signals a drama built around competing loyalties and family control, not just a single lead performance.
All five episodes now
All five episodes are available on demand on the same day as the premiere, which is the practical detail viewers need if they want to wait and watch the full story in one stretch. The format also fits a thriller built on mystery, because Claudia's case does not unfold as a one-episode tease-and-wait exercise.
Claudia's routine inheritance case quickly becomes tied to unsettling visions, strange coincidences, family history and the legacy of colonial violence. The series is strongest when it treats those elements as one system rather than separate shocks; that is where the legal dispute stops looking tidy and starts looking personal.
For viewers, the move is simple: tune in on Sky Atlantic on Thursday 6 August, or wait and take the full five-part run on demand the same day. What specifically connects Claudia's recurring nightmares to Hope Hill is the mystery the series sets up, and it is the part most likely to keep the whole season in motion.
