John Simms has landed a role in channel 4’s newest drama, 7 Days and will be shooting the show for five years before it is aired.

Director, Michael Winterbottom, whose The Road To Guantanamo won several awards, told The Sun:

“I wanted to make a film that showed the relationships within a family growing and changing over a long period of time.

“Rather than compress the time period or resort to using technical ways of showing ageing and time passing, I wanted to take a group of actors and work with them in a real time scale, giving an authenticity and depth to their performances.

“7 Days is the story of four children growing up with a dad in prison and a family surviving and supporting each other through a five year separation.”