Alan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy are joining the cast of Boarders Season 2

Alan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy have been cast in the second series of the BBC and Tubi drama series Boarding students.

The traitors Host Cumming and EastEnders Actress Cassidy will join a cast including leads Josh Tedeku, Jodie Campbell, Sekou Diaby, Myles Kamwendo and Aruna Jalloh in the coming-of-age series about five talented black inner-city teenagers who receive scholarships to the prestigious St. Gilbert boarding school receive. The series stars creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor

Cumming will play Alan, a man who has high standards for the students at St. Gilbert, and Cassidy will play Sharon Hail, a teacher at a rival school. The second season begins with a new assistant principal, Carol Watlington-Geese, who wants the scholarship students to disappear, especially when they are doing well.

For Cumming, the casting is one of his first since he signed a production deal with NBCUniversal last June on the back of the success of the reality series “Peacock.” The traitorswhich he moderates. Studio Lambert, supported by All3Media, is producing The traitorsmight Boarding students for the BBC in co-production with Tubi and ZDFneo in collaboration with All3Media International.

“I’ve always said it’s a good idea to let people know you’re a fan of theirs,” Cumming said. “And that’s how it was Boarding students. I mentioned this to the producers – who also happen to be producing The traitors – and soon after, I found myself on set having so much fun.”

The returning cast includes Niky Wardley, Assa Kanouté, Tallulah Greive, Rosie Graham, Harry Gilby, Georgina Sadler, Zheng Xi Yong, Dillon Mitra, Archie Fisher, Andrew Harmon-Gray, Ruxandra Porojnicu, Kye Malcolm, Llewella Gideon, Mohammed Mansaray and Niyi Akin, Maxim Ays, Al Foran, William Andrews and Yuriri Naka. Previously announced new cast members include Wunmi Mosaku, Cara Theobold, Michael Salami and Kendra Brown, who plays an American exchange student.

Boarding students is created by Lawrence Taylor who is the lead writer while Yemi Oyefuwa, Jeffrey Aidoo and Racheal Ofori write other episodes. Joelle Mae David and Sarmad Masud are the directors, Ali MacPhail is the producer and Carleen Beadle-Larcombe is the executive producer. Mykaell Riley returns as musical director. Executive producers are Lawrence Taylor, Madeleine Sinclair for Studio Lambert and Nawfal Faizullah and Katherine Bond for the BBC.

The second season premieres next month on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three, before appearing in North and Latin America on Tubi and in Germany on ZDFneo. All3Media International owns the distribution rights.