Cush Jumbo , Adelayo Adedayo , Deborah Ayorinde and Susan Wokoma are leading the cast of Wahala , the BBC adaptation of the Nikki May novel from Rocks director Theresa Ikoko.

The show weaves between four Nigerian-British women in their thirties, navigating careers, love and family in present day London.

Adedayo ( The Responder, Supacell ), Jumbo ( Criminal Record, The Young People ) and Wokoma ( Cheaters, Enola Holmes ) play Simi, Boo and Ronke, best friends who have shared every aspect of life for years. Their carefully balanced world is disrupted when Isobel, played by Ayorinde ( Them, Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue ) a charismatic and super-wealthy new acquaintance, enters their orbit.

The four are joined by Nigerian screen icon Genevieve Nnaji.…