Peacock has acquired the BBC’s YA drama series Noughts + Crosses, which imagines an alternate world in which Africa colonized Europe — but this new version of history still feels awfully familiar.
Noughts + Crosses will begin streaming on Peacock on Friday, Sept. 4.
“Destiny crosses their divergent paths,” the logline reads, “and they’re swept away in a romance that seems doomed from the start.”
Based on the first novel in Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses series, the six-episode project takes place in a timeline where Africa — or “Aprica” — invaded Europe centuries ago and enslaved its people, instead of the other way around.