The Irishman star Stephen Graham and Game of Thrones star Sean Bean are reuniting on a prison drama for the BBC from Cracker creator Jimmy McGovern.

The pair are starring in three-part drama Time for BBC One. It comes ten years after they starred together in McGovern’s Accused.

Time, which is produced by BBC Studios and will start filming in Liverpool later this year, is a high-stakes portrayal of life in the modern British penal system, seen through the eyes of two very different men.

Bean plays Mark Hebden, a teacher, husband and father, who killed an innocent man in an accident. Consumed by guilt, he accepts and even welcomes his four-year sentence. Separated from his family, he has no idea what to expect in this unforgiving new environment and needs to learn quickly how to survive.

Graham plays Eric Reid, a prison officer. Caring and honest, Eric tries...