NOT one but two Bafta award-winning actresses are set to star in a new BBC TV drama.

Sheridan Smith and Olivia Colman, who both picked up Baftas at Sunday’s awards ceremony, join David Morrissey in a new two-part romantic drama by David Nicholls.

The writer describes The 7.39 as “a love story for grownups, the sort of drama that has not been seen on television for a while”.

Morrissey, who has been starring in US zombie drama Walking Dead, plays Carl Matthews whose life, at the age of 45, has become routine.

Every morning he fights his way onto the 7.39 train where he sees the same unhappy faces doing the same daily commute into Waterloo.

Happily married to his best friend from college, Maggie (Colman), with whom he has two healthy, if sullen, teenage kids, life for Carl has become predictable.

Sally Thorn (Smith) has recently moved out of London, where she still works as the manager of a health club. But she’s unsure if she likes her new suburban life, or the prospect of marriage to Ryan (Sean Maguire), a handsome personal trainer.

Ryan is desperate to start a family, get married, settle down.

Sally secretly wonders if he really is the man for her. Over a fight for a seat on the train Sally and Carl begin talking and suddenly their daily train journeys become a lot more interesting.