BBC One announces Stephen Merchant’s The Offenders (w/t) from Big Talk and Four Eyes
The Offenders (working title) is a 6 x 1 hour series from multi-award-winning writer and director Stephen Merchant, originally created by Merchant and Elgin James (co-creator of US series Mayans M.C.) The series is a co-production between BBC One and Amazon...
Tade Thompson’s Making Wolf optioned by Big Talk
Making Wolf, Tade Thompson’s award-winning debut novel, is to be adapted for television by Big Talk and writer Sean Conway. Making Wolf is an African noir masterpiece set in the blazing sun of a fictitious African state. When Weston Kogi, a London store detective,...
ITV COMMISSIONS THREE PART DRAMA, DES WITH DAVID TENNANT AS DENNIS NILSEN
ITV has announced the commission of Des, a three part drama which follows the arrest and trial of serial killer Dennis Nilsen, known as Des. Written by Luke Neal and developed by Luke Neal and Lewis Arnold, the drama is based on material from the book Killing for...
BBC One’s Sitting In Limbo commences filming
Sitting In Limbo, a Windrush story from Left Bank Pictures for BBC One, has started filming today. The feature-length drama is written by Stephen S. Thompson and is based on a true story. Patrick Robinson (Casualty, The Bill, Mount Pleasant) and Nadine Marshall (Save...
Filming has commenced in London on Because the Night, a four-part limited series for ITV from Euston Films, part of Fremantle.
Russell Tovey (Years and Years, Him & Her) plays well meaning but directionless Nathan, a man trying to escape his past. Nathan has a terrible secret he’s long prayed would stay buried and for which he's long worked hard to make recompense. Almost a decade into...
MATTHEW MACFADYEN, MICHAEL SHEEN, HELEN MCCRORY AND SIAN CLIFFORD STAR IN QUIZ A THREE PART DRAMA DIRECTED BY STEPHEN FREARS WRITTEN BY JAMES GRAHAM AND PRODUCED BYLEFT BANK PICTURES FOR ITV AND AMC
The extraordinary and sensational story of how Charles and Diana Ingram attempted an ‘audacious heist’ on the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is to be told in a three-part drama, Quiz announced ITV and AMC today. Major Ingram, his wife Diana and an...
ITV commissions three part drama, Quiz, directed by Stephen Frears and produced by Left Bank Pictures
The extraordinary and sensational story of how Charles and Diana Ingram attempted an ‘audacious heist’ on the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is to be told in a three-part drama, Quiz announced ITV and AMC today. Major Ingram, his wife Diana and an...
Leye Adenle’s Amaka series optioned for TV Adaptation by Big Talk Productions and Turnover Films
Award-winning writer Leye Adenle’s Amaka series has been optioned for a TV adaptation Big Talk Productions and Turnover Films. 'Easy Motion Tourist' and 'When Trouble Sleeps' (both published by Cassava Republic Press) is a series of crime novels by the Nigerian...
Best Interests is a compelling, thought-provoking original drama from Bafta-winning writer Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials, The Virtues, National Treasure) for BBC One.
This is a story of a family driven apart by having to make choices no parent would ever want to make. Andrew and Nicci’s daughter, Marnie, has a life-threatening condition. The doctors believe it is in her best interests to be allowed to die, but her loving family...