Dr Abu:
The Legacy
A father convinced he knows his son's future. A son determined to build his own. Then the internet disappears.
The series has not yet been released. The response came from the campaign introducing the world, characters and story.
He wants to break the internet.
Then the internet falls.
Ephraim wants to become the biggest creator in the world. Dr Abu has very different plans for his son's future. When the internet disappears for up to 18 months, the family is forced to confront what remains when the online world is gone.
Discover Net Down ›Trailers & Videos
Official scenes, story teasers and first-look material from Dr Abu: The Legacy.
The character already had an audience.
Now the world gets a story.
Dr Abu was built directly with an audience that already understood his humour, language and family world. The Legacy expands that relationship into long-form scripted storytelling while keeping creator, character and audience connected to development.
One performer.
Multiple generations.
Ephraim Lisk performs each generation on set. A performance-led workflow using Blackmagic Design and DaVinci Resolve extends age around the actor while preserving expression, movement and character.
Before the technology, the audience and the scale, there is a family.
At the centre of Dr Abu: The Legacy is a Black father and son who love one another, but have very different ideas about what the future should look like.
Vulnerable. Loving. Complicated.
What if the internet did not come back?
A catastrophic outage threatens to leave the world offline for up to 18 months. For Ephraim, the future he has built online disappears overnight. For his father, the collapse creates something unexpected: his son's attention.
The fictional question carries a real-world tension. Ephraim Lisk has built his own career through the same digital infrastructure his character suddenly loses.
Inside The Legacy
Go deeper into the story, performance and audience behind the series.
One Performer.
Multiple Generations.
Inside the performance, age transformation and Blackmagic Design workflow.
Explore ›Before Episode One
What the opening campaign revealed about audience behaviour before a completed episode had been released.
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From Character To World
How creator-built comedy became the foundation for a larger family drama.
Explore ›Ephraim Lisk Signs Dr Abu: The Legacy Deal
Create Anything and creator-performer Ephraim Lisk expand the world of Dr Abu into an original scripted family dramedy developed with BAFTA-nominated director Stewart Kyasimire.
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Characters
Dr Abu
Father. Doctor. Expert in almost everything.
Ephraim
His father's son. On his own terms.
Talia
Unimpressed. Observant. More important than Abu realises.
Grandpa
Every family needs someone who remembers how the story started.
Cast & Creators
Ephraim Lisk
Creator and performer behind Dr Abu, expanding the character world into long-form scripted storytelling.
View biography ›Stewart Kyasimire
BAFTA-nominated director whose credits include Four Kings, The Wedding, Black and Scottish and Anansi Boys: The Making Of.
View biography ›In Their Words
“Our opportunity was to give that world the time, performance space and filmmaking language of long-form scripted television.”
“Dr Abu already had a relationship with the audience. The series lets us discover what else exists inside that family.”
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