Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Westworld actress Thandiwe Newton and Doctor Who alum Ncuti Gatwa have signed on to star in HBO's First Day on Earth. Michaela Coel wrote, and is directing and starring in the series. Filming is already underway on the 10-episode drama. "British-Ghanaian novelist Henri (Coel) is on the run -- from herself, her life, her partner, and that weird guy at her book talk," a synopsis said. "When she ends up in Ghana, her ancestral homeland, she finds herself submerged in an altogether

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