Paramount+'s 'Insomnia' To Keep Vicky McClure Awake All Night

Paramount+ has landed their lead and filled out the cast for the streaming service's upcoming adaptation of Sarah Pinborough's best-selling novel Insomnia. Vicky McClure, best known in the U.K. for one of the few recurring roles in Line of Duty, and most recently seen in the Jed Mercurio-produced Trigger Point on Peacock on this side of the pond, has been announced as the series lead. The series, which was initially announced as produced by Left Bank Pictures (best known as the team behind The Crown) will now produce the series in association with McClure's outfit, Build Your Own Films, making her both producer and star of the series.

The announcement came as filming commenced in London in mid-September 2023, with McClure very excited to take on the project. "Myself and BYO Films are really excited to be working alongside Left Bank on Insomnia," she said in the press release. "It’s a very different role for me, Sarah Pinborough has written such an exciting script. We have a fantastic cast, crew, and production team all set for a very fulfilling few months ahead!"

McClure isn't the only one stepping into a different sort of role for this series. One of her co-stars will also be familiar to PBS viewers. Michelle Bonnard, who is a series regular in Unforgotten as the fiancee of Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar), will be pinning on a police badge of her own in the new series. She's been cast as the lead investigator, DI Hildreth, who spends the series dogging McClure's character's footsteps.