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BBC Drama Adds to Commissioning Team
BBC Drama has appointed two new commissioning editors and tapped Sami El-Hadi as its new head of development.
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Shuggie Bain Gets BBC, A24 Adaptation
BBC has ordered a series adaptation of Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize-winning debut novel Shuggie Bain, to be produced by A24.
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Production Begins on BBC Crime Drama Steeltown Murders
Production has begun on Steeltown Murders (w.t.), a fact-based crime drama for BBC One and BBC iPlayer produced by Severn Screen (The Pembrokeshire Murders, Hidden/Craith) in association with All3Media International.
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BBC Commissions Lost Boys and Fairies
BBC Drama and BBC Cymru Wales have co-commissioned the new drama Lost Boys and Fairies from the Leeds-based indie Duck Soup Films.
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BBC Drama Orders Eight New Titles from Across the U.K.
BBC Drama, following the BBC’s stated commitment to increase the portrayal of all audiences across the U.K., has commissioned eight new programs from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.
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BBC Unveils New Drama Co-Pros with Netflix, PBS’s Masterpiece & More
Piers Wenger, the controller of BBC Drama, has revealed more than 45 hours of new commissions, including an adaptation of the classic novel Little Women with Masterpiece on PBS and a London-Tokyo crime series with Netflix.
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Channel 4’s Piers Wenger to Head BBC Drama Commissioning
LONDON: Piers Wenger has been tapped as the new controller of BBC drama commissioning, after having served as head of drama at Channel 4 since 2012.
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Tony Jordan to Pen Barbara Windsor BBC Drama
LONDON: BBC Drama has made three new commissions, one of which is for a series about the life of Dame Barbara Windsor.
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