The eight-part series comes from writer Catherine Shepherd, who spoke with Radio Times exclusively, and told us that she was inspired by her own experiences of Greek holidays.
"We were in Corfu at the end of a really nice day. We could see Albania across the water and we saw gunfire - people were shooting at each other.
"And clinging on to this idea that you can have and deserve time away and to not have to think about real things, which I think is really interesting. It's really true. When I was thinking about the project I was planning a holiday in Greece and I went on to some of the message boards for Greece.
"And again, they are the most sort of comi-tragic things, because they're people saying, ‘How bad is the political situation in this island? And while it's kind of awful to ask these questions, it's also truthful. You don't want your two weeks spoiled by real things."
"It was a long process," she said. "The scripts were challenging. There were so many characters and all of their stories intersect, so I set myself a challenge. Getting it set up was complicated.
"It took several years to come to fruition, and by the time we ended up in Malta, we couldn't make it work to shoot it in Greece, so we shot it in Malta for Greece, which actually works really, really well."
Damien Molony plays her husband, Dan, while other stars include Antonia Thomas as Jess, Nicholas Pinnock as Solomon, Leila Farzad as Nat and Hugh Skinner as Jacob.
"I had a meeting with Catherine and [director] Tom George," she said. "I walked into that room, and almost, to a certain degree, getting the job was neither here nor there – I just wanted to go and talk about the script.
"And we had this great discussion about everything that the script pulls out, which is a sign of an incredible piece of work.
"I find it quite funny when you watch people trying to suppress their anxiety and pretend everything is fine when it clearly isn't, and watching a people pleaser finally stand up for herself, knowing what she was going to go to throughout the series, I was thrilled.
Two Weeks in August will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 9pm on Saturday 23 May 2026.
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