Set in 1956, Ten Pound Poms will star Michelle Keegan (Brassic), Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones) and Warren Brown (The Responder) as a group of Brits escaping dreary post-War Britain to pastures new in Australia.

For just ten pounds, they have been promised a better house, better job prospects and a better quality of life by the sea in the sunny down under. But when they arrive, they soon realise that they have been sold a dream.

Across six episodes, Ten Pound Poms follows the group as they struggle to adapt to life as immigrants, far from Britain and familiarity.

The drama centres on Annie (Marsay) and Terry Roberts (Brown), who, despite poor living conditions at the migrant hostel and local hostility towards immigrants like them, strive to make a home out of their situation.

And they aren’t the only ones grinning and bearing it. A young nurse, Kate (Keegan), arrives without her fiancé in a desperate attempt to rewrite her devastating past. Also on the run is Bill (Leon Ford), chasing a fast but unsustainable lifestyle after losing his family business back home, and teenager Stevie (Declan Coyle) who’s escaping his abusive father. Meanwhile, Ron (Rob Collins) is an Indigenous Australian war veteran but feels as much of an outsider as all the others.

Danny Brocklehurst says: “Ten Pounds Poms demands an ensemble cast that we are always rooting for, actors we love and want to succeed. I am thrilled to have found those actors.

“It is a delight to welcome so much exciting Australian talent as well as working with the brilliant Faye and Warren for the first time. This is my third outing with the wonderful Michelle Keegan and I'm positive we will make another winner together.”

Eleven, the producers of Sex Education, will produce the series, which will film in Australia.