Quarter Life

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Quarter Life
Written by Riz Ahmed
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
Production
Executive producersRiz Ahmed
Allie Moore
Ben Karlin
Jake Fuller
Roopesh Parekh
ProducersTony Hernandez
Brooke Posch
Molly Seymour
Production companies
Original release
Network Amazon Prime Video

Quarter Life is an upcoming television series written by and starring Riz Ahmed for Amazon Prime Video.

Contents

Premise

An actor in London suffers an existential crisis. [1]

Cast

Production

The series was developed at Jax Media in association with Left Handed Films for Amazon MGM Studios and their streaming platform Amazon Prime Video. [2] It is executive produced by Ahmed and Allie Moore for Left Handed, and Jake Fuller on behalf of Jax Media. Ben Karlin is an executive producer and is showrunning with Ahmed. The series writers include Dipika Guha, Prashanth Venkataramanujam, Karen Joseph Adcock, Azam Mahmood, and Fatima Farheen Mirza. Roopesh Parekh is also an executive producer. [3] Guz Khan, Sheeba Chaddha, Aasiya Shah, Ritu Arya, Weruche Opia and Sajid Hasan joined the cast in August 2024. [4] [5] [6]

Filming took place in the United Kingdom in September 2024 under the title Quarter Life. [7]

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