Counsels

About Counsels

Counsels is an upcoming British legal drama television series written by Bryan Elsley and Gillian McCormack. Set in Glasgow, it follows five young lawyers who trained together and now practise across the city. The eight-part series is due to be broadcast on BBC One and BBC Scotland in early 2027.

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Premise

The series follows five young lawyers in Glasgow who previously trained together and are now practising law across the city.

Cast

Main

Brandon Grace as Jamie

Ro Kumar as Bav

Eilidh Park as Nadine

George Prentice as Alasdair

Alyth Ross as Katie

Rebecca Bell as Karina

Supporting

Mitchell Robertson

Michelle Gomez

Derek Riddell

Laura Haddock

Daniela Nardini

Michael Nardone

Sally Howitt

Stuart Bowman

Neshla Caplan

Stephen Purdon

Mhairi Black

Production

The eight-part series is written by Bryan Elsley and Gillian McCormack and was commissioned in March 2025. It is produced by Balloon Scotland. Co-writers are Maryam Hamidi and Jingan Young. Elsley and McCormack are also executive producers alongside Gaynor Holmes, Gavin Smith and Daniel Donnelly.

The cast is led by Brandon Grace, Ro Kumar, Eilidh Park, George Prentice, Alyth Ross and Rebecca Bell as the young lawyers, as well as established Scottish performers such as Daniela Nardini, Michelle Gomez, Derek Riddell and Stuart Bowman. In October 2025, Mhairi Black joined the cast in her first acting role, playing a detective.

Filming began in Glasgow in August 2025.

Broadcast

The series will broadcast on BBC One and BBC Scotland in early 2027.

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Notable quotes

“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
— Joseph Addison, The Spectator (1712).
“Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.”
— Mason Cooley (1927-2002), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection (1985).
“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.”
— Helps, in Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine, Volume 3, p. 469.
“People who give me advice... I reckon they're talking to themselves.”
— Nic Pizzolatto, said by Rust Cohle in the television miniseries True Detective (2014).
“Seek no advice from a woman about her rival, from a coward about war, from a merchant about business, from a buyer about value, from a miser about generosity, from a cruel person about well-being, from a worthless worker about his work, from a seasonal laborer about the harvest, from an idle slave about a great task— pay no attention to any advice they give.”
— Ben Sira, Sirach, 37:11 NABRE
“To forget good counsel is to forget the experiences that prompted the soul to desire prudence: and when those are forgotten, it is not surprising that prudence itself is forgotten.”
— Xenophon, Memorabilia

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