The BBC is doubling down on its adaptations of acclaimed author Sally Rooney’s work. BBC Drama is to adapt the writer’s best-selling debut novel Conversations With Friends (12×30-minutes). The news comes ahead of the Spring launch of the BBC and Hulu’s adaptation of Rooney’s Normal People. Like Normal People, Conversations with Friends will be produced […]
Element Pictures, the UK- and Ireland-based producer behind Oscar winning film The Favourite, has appointed a drama commissioning exec from Channel 4 to oversee development of its TV slate. Jonny Richards takes the newly created role of head of TV development and will oversee Element’s push into TV drama with a remit to expand its […]
Hulu has boarded the BBC’s upcoming adaptation of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel Normal People, which has just gone into production as a 12×30 series through Element Pictures. Adapted by Rooney alongside writers Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe, Normal People will star Daisy Edgar Jones (War of the Worlds, Cold Feet) as Marianne and Paul Mescal in his first television role as Connell. […]
BBC Worldwide has presold two of its drama miniseries around the world. Ecosse Films-produced Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond (pictured) has been sold into twelve international territories. Arte (France), ABC (Australia), Showcase (Canada), Zon (Portugal), HBO Nordic, TV4 (Sweden), DR (Denmark), TV2 (Norway), VRT (Belgium), Sinema TV (Turkey) and Wowow (Japan) have all […]
