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Independence Day? How Disabled Rights Were Won BBC2 Dragonfly Film and TV and One Shoe Films. Exec Producers Richard Bond, Tom Pullen and Jack Thorne. Writers Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr. Directors Bruce Goodison and Amit Sharma.
Good Omens S2 Amazon Studios Neil Gaiman exec producer and will co-showrun along with exec Douglas Mackinnon, who will also return to direct. Rob Wilkins, John Finnemore and BBC Studios Productions’ Head of Comedy Josh Cole will also exec.
Frankenstein Development Director Otto Bathurst’s indie One Big Picture joins BlackBox Multimedia and Stone Village TV’s series adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Maigret Development Colin Callender’s indie Playground has optioned the TV rights to all of George Simenon’s Inspector Maigret stories. Playground to co-develop with Red Arrow Studios International.
Dangerous Liaisons Starzplay Dangerous Liaisons prequel produced by Playground Entertainment for Starzplay. Created and written by Harriet Warner. Execs Warner, Colin Callender, Tony Krantz , Bethan Jones, Scott Huff, Christopher Hampton. Series Producer is Barney Reisz.
Europa StudioCanal Espionage thriller. Produced by Seven Stories and exec producers Anand Tucker, Colleen Woodcock, Robyn Slovo, Peter Straughan and Tomas Alfredson.
The Trick BBC1 The real life story of the ‘Climategate Scandal’. Produced by Vox Pictures, written by Owen Sheers. Adrian Bate will produce for Vox, Ben Irving exec for BBC.
The Beast Must Die S2 Britbox Directed by Dome Karukoski, produced by Sarada McDermott, adapted by Gaby Chiappe. Execs Ed Rubin and Emma Broughton for New Regency,
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Ridley ITV West Road Pictures detective drama starring Adrian Dunbar. Written and created by Paul Matthew Thompson and co- created by Jonathan Fisher - both will exec.
The Cutting Room Development Atalaya Productions has optioned the rights to the thriller by Louise Welsh. Poppy Cogan to adapt.
Murder In Provence Britbox 3 x 90 Monumental Television mystery series starring Roger Allam. Adapted by Shelagh Stephenson, directed by Chloe Thomas and produced by Grainne Marmion. Executive Producers are Debra Hayward, Alison Owen and Alison Carpenter.
Holding ITV adaptation of Graham Norton’s novel directed by Kathy Burke, written by Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Karen Cogan and produced by Happy Prince and Martina Niland for Port Pictures
Super Cannes Development Ringside Studios, Newen, and Andy Starke from Anti- Worlds Film & Television option TV rights to JG Ballard’s thriller
The Bone Season Development fantasy thriller produced by Harriet Hammond of Little Hat Productions, exec produced by Hammond and Victor Glynn of GCB Films. Adapted by IR Bell-Webb.
Champion BBC From Candice Carty-Williams, Exec produced by Jo McClellan for the BBC, Bryan Elsley, Dave Evans and Danielle Scott- Haughton for Balloon Entertainment, Charlie Pattinson, Willow Grylls and Imogen O’Sullivan for New Pictures and Candice Carty-Williams.
Everything I Know About Love BBC Adapted by Dolly Alderton from her memoir. Exec produced by Jo McClellan for the BBC,
Dolly Alderton, and Surian Fletcher-Jones, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title Television.
The Gallows Pole BBC Written by Shane Meadows. Produced by Element Pictures and exec produced by Piers Wenger and Tom Lazenby for the BBC.
Marriage BBC Writer-director Stefan Golaszewski. Exec produced by Tommy Bulfin for the BBC, Beth Willis and George Faber for The Forge and Richard Laxton and Stefan Golaszewski for The Money Men.
Cash Carraway BBC Daisy May Cooper stars, Cash Carraway adapts from her book. Executive produced by Jo McClellan for the BBC and Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris for Sid Gentle Films and Cash Carraway.
Wahala BBC Adapted by Theresa Ikoko from Nikki May’s novel. Exec produced by Mona Qureshi for the BBC and Elizabeth Kilgarriff for Firebird Pictures.
Bloody Women Development Synchronicity Films adapting Helen FitzGerald novel. Writer Lorna Martin.
Noughts + Crosses S2 BBC1 Produced by Mammoth Screen. Written by Lydia Adetunji and Jerome Bucchan-Nelson, directed by Koby Adom and produced by Sarah Lewis. Executive Producers are Preethi Mavahalli, Damien Timmer and James Gandhi for Mammoth Screen, Ben Irving for BBC One, Malorie Blackman, Lydia Adetunji and Kibwe Tavares.
ARLO project Development Songwriter and actor, ARLO, developing with Lionsgate Studio and Eleven Films.
West Cork Development SISTER to adapt Audible Original podcast West Cork for TV. Sister’s Kate Fenske, Naomi de Pear executive producing with Alice Tyler developing alongside
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