Trailers & Images
The Consultation Call
A call from Ephraim's new school raises concerns, recommends therapy and gives audiences their first substantial look at the relationship beneath the comedy.
Net Down
The wider series premise emerges as a catastrophic internet outage is expected to leave the world offline for up to 18 months. The film ends with the Hatch sting and introduces the main dramatic arcs.
Grandpa & Ephraim
A hotel and bathroom sequence that slows the campaign down and opens up the emotional relationship between Ephraim and the older generation of the Abu family.
IGRAM / Beatings
Dr Abu's familiar language and comic authority return inside the expanded scripted world, retaining the character DNA audiences already recognise.
17 Degrees
A short introduction to Dr Abu's personality, confidence and impossible list of qualifications, designed as a quick entry point into the character for new audiences.
Abu Rising
A rapid smash cut of scenes from Net Down before the Hatch reveal, built as a high-impact campaign sting rather than a conventional trailer.
Press Notes
Before Episode One
Platform-reported promotional views during the first seven days of the opening campaign. No completed episode of Dr Abu: The Legacy had been released.
Audience reporting ›From character to scripted television
Dr Abu already had a language, point of view and audience. The Legacy gives that world the performance space and narrative depth of long-form scripted television while keeping the original creator at the centre.
Read the press release ›A family series first
At the centre of the project is a Black father and son who love one another but have very different ideas about ambition, identity, discipline and success. The comedy brings audiences in. The family gives the series its emotional centre.
What if the internet did not come back?
A creator whose future exists online is placed inside an outage expected to last for up to 18 months. The fictional question carries an unusual real-world tension because Ephraim Lisk built his own audience through the same infrastructure his character suddenly loses.
Watch Net Down ›Becoming Abu
One performer. Three generations.
Ephraim Lisk performs teenage Ephraim, Dr Abu in his fifties and Grandpa Abu. Writing, voice and physical performance are supported by a Blackmagic camera and DaVinci Resolve workflow. The principle is simple: perform first, transform later.
Reveal Coming
Latest Press
Ephraim Lisk Signs Dr Abu: The Legacy Deal
Create Anything signs Ephraim Lisk to develop, write and star in Dr Abu: The Legacy, expanding his creator IP into a scripted family series.
Read the full release ›Cast & Creators
Ephraim Lisk
Creator and performer behind Dr Abu, expanding the original character world into long-form scripted storytelling.
Stewart Kyasimire
BAFTA-nominated filmmaker whose credits include Four Kings, The Wedding, Black and Scottish and Anansi Boys: The Making Of.