We had the pleasure of speaking to the cast of new BBC series The Split Up – a spin-off of Abi Morgan’s The Split, and we kickstart our coverage with an interview with leads Ritu Arya and Sanjeev Bhaskar, who sat down with us to talk about their new show, where they play a father-daughter from an ambitious lawyer family. What unfolds is a warm, unguarded conversation about the family chemistry that made strangers feel like the Kishans within days, and the full-circle moment when Arya showed her childhood hero the sketch show she wrote in his honour — a story that ends, in her words, with “the biggest hug.”. Watch the interview in its entirety below.

Ritu Arya & Sanjeev Bhaskar

Plot

Set in the charged world of Manchester’s high net worth divorce circuit, The Split Up centres on Kishan Law – a powerhouse British-South Asian family firm, and the go-to for the city’s elite. The fast-rising star of Kishan Law is Aria Kishan (Ritu Arya), poised to step up and take the mantle from her father Dhruv (Sanjeev Bhaskar). However, the death of her mother has cast a new light over these plans for Dhruv, who has begun to wonder if his daughter can, or should, take on this responsibility single handedly.

The Split Up arrives on BBC iPlayer and BBC One from Sunday 20th September