Turn Up Charlie: Season 1 — Official Trailer

added: Thu, Feb 28th '19

Idris Elba is getting a chance to flex his comedy muscles as he plays a once-famous, now-struggling club DJ who agrees to take a job as a nanny for a young precocious child in the new Netflix series "Turn Up Charlie," for which an official trailer has been released.

Co-created by Elba and Gary Reich, the eight-episode Netflix series also stars Piper Perabo (TV's Covert Affairs, The Prestige) as a world-class DJ and music producer named Sara who has decided to help her old friend, Charlie (Elba), by offering him a well-paying job.

"A nanny? You want me to be a nanny," Elba's Charlie asks with a stunned look on his face. "I'm sick of having strangers watch my kid," Sara says to Charlie.

And though it may have started as a silly and frustrated baby-sitting job, Charlie soon develops a genuine bond with Sara's 11-year-old rambunctious daughter (played by newcomer Frankie Hervey), who inspires him to mount a comeback.

With various episodes helmed by TV comedy directors Tristram Shapeero (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Community) and Matt Lipsey (Little Britain), "Turn Up Charlie: Season 1" is premiering March 15th on Netflix.

synopsis:
TURN UP CHARLIE centers on the titular Charlie (Idris Elba), a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor, who is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a "manny" to his famous best friend's problem-child daughter, Gabby (Frankie Hervey).

directed by Tristram Shapeero, Matt Lipsey (various episodes)

starring Idris Elba, Piper Perabo, Frankie Hervey, JJ Field, Guz Khan, Angela Griffin, Jocelyn Jee Esein

release date March 15, 2019 (on Netflix)