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Marriage - BBC1 Sean Bean and Nicola Walker are to star in Marriage from writer and director Stefan Golaszewski. Produced by The Forge and The Money Men, Marriage is a four part drama for BBC One.Executive Producers are Tommy Bulfin for the BBC, Beth Willis and George Faber for The Forge and Richard Laxton and Stefan Golaszewski for The Money Men. The producer is Lyndsay Robinson.
Waterloo Road - BBC1 School drama series Waterloo Road is returning to BBC One. The new series will be set and made in Greater Manchester and produced by Wall to Wall, in co-production with Rope Ladder Fiction. Cameron Roach will return to executive produce for Wall to Wall/Rope Ladder Fiction and executive producers for the BBC are Gaynor Holmes and Jo McClellan.
Roald Dahl - Netflix Netflix is buying The Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC), with plans to create a Roald Dahl universe. Currently, film-makers Taika Waititi and Phil Johnston are working on a series based on the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Sony and Working Title are also working on an adaptation of Matilda The Musical.
Wilderness - Amazon Amazon Studios Head of European Originals, Georgia Brown, and Head of UK Originals, Dan Grabiner, have announced the greenlight of new psychological thriller Wilderness, produced by Firebird Pictures and written by Marnie Dickens. It will be executive produced by Elizabeth Kilgarriff
Netflix deal with Anna Winger Netflix has signed a multi-year partnership with the creator of Unorthodox, Anna Winger and her production company Airlift Productions. Winger is currently working with Anne Mensah’s team in the UK on a contemporary original series set in the English countryside.
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Tom Jones Masterpiece - ITV MASTERPIECE, ITV and Mammoth Screen are partnering on a four-part television miniseries to reimagine The History of Tom Jones. Written by Gwyneth Hughes, Tom Jones is directed by Georgia Parris and produced by Benjamin Greenacre. The executive producers are James Gandhi, Gwyneth Hughes, Damien Timmer and Helen Ziegler for Mammoth Screen, Susanne Simpson and Rebecca Eaton for MASTERPIECE, and Polly Hill for ITV.
Midas Man movie StudioPOW and Trevor Beattie Films have added Emily Watson, Eddie Marsan and Omari Douglas to the cast of Brian Epstein biopic, Midas Man. Midas Man will be directed by Jonas Åkerlund, produced by Kevin Proctor and Perry Trevers at StudioPOW and Trevor Beattie and Jeremy Chatterton at Trevor Beattie Films. Peter Dunne, Nicola Pearcey and Mark Borkowski are executive producers. TFS Chairman and co-owner Sunny Vohra and Managing Partner Jeremy Rainbird will also serve as executive producers.
The Canterville Ghost - BYUtv US broadcaster BYUtv, has ordered a new four-part modern retelling of Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost” from BBC Studios Productions. Adapted by Jude Tindall, It is executive produced by Will Trotter. Directors are Paul Gibson and Suri Krishnamma. The series producer for BBC Studios Productions is Sue Howells.
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh - Urban Myth Anjli Mohindra has secured a development deal with Urban Myth Films who have now scooped the television rights to journalist and BBC presenter Anita Anand’s biography of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh entitled “Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary”
A Town Called Malice - Sky Sky has ordered a new eight-part Sky Original drama A Town Called Malice. The series is a co-
production between Vertigo Films, Sky Studios and Rogue State, and is created by Nick Love who is also the lead writer on the series. The series producer is Andy Noble.
Queenie - Channel 4 Channel 4 has ordered an 8×30-minute drama Queenie, written by Candice Carty-Williams. Queenie will be produced by Further South Productions in association with Lionsgate Television. Executive produced by Steve November, Sarah Conroy and Candice Carty- Williams
Chivalry - Channel 4 Chivalry is written by Sarah Solemani and Steve Coogan and is produced by Baby Cow Productions. Marta Cunningham will direct, Isabel Richardson will produce and the executive producers are Steve Coogan, Sarah Solemani, Marta Cunningham, Sarah Monteith and Rupert Majendie
Disney+ - three new UK dramas Disney+ UK has announced three new UK produced dramas from Moonriver TV and Seven Stories, Character 7 and Dancing Ledge. Nautilus, produced jointly by Moonriver TV and Seven Stories, is developed and co-produced by Moonriver TV’s Xavier Marchand and Seven Stories’ Anand Tucker, Nautilus is written and executive produced by James Dormer and is executive produced by Johanna Devereaux for Disney. Culprits is executive produced by Stephen Garrett, created and directed by J Blakeson and produced by Morenike Williams (Killing Eve). Culprits is a Character 7 production. Wedding Season is produced by Dancing Ledge Productions with Chris Carey, Laurence Bowen and Toby Bruce serving as Executive Producers. Wedding Season is produced in association with Jax Media with Lilly Burns and Tony Hernandez also taking Executive Producer responsibilities. The series is penned by Oliver Lyttelton, also an executive producer, and will be directed by George Kane.
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