Tag: Playground

Playground has landed the rights to The Great When, a new fantasy novel from Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) that was published in October by Bloomsbury.

Production has begun on Maigret, a contemporary TV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novels about the Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, for PBS’s Masterpiece.

Playground (All Creatures Great and Small) has been commissioned to produce The Hardacres, a six-part adaptation of CL Skelton’s best-selling series of novels The Hardacre Saga, for Channel 5.

Channel 5, PBS’s MASTERPIECE and Playground have revealed the new and returning cast members for season four of All Creatures Great and Small.

All Creatures Great & Small producer Playground has elevated Scott Huff and David Stern to joint managing directors.

Endor Productions has tapped Jen McConnell, from Masterpiece’s Sanditon and previously Playground, as head of development.

Playground (All Creatures Great & Small, The Undeclared War) has optioned Alex Marwood’s international bestseller The Wicked Girls for development as a limited series.

The Wales-based indie Little Door Productions has enlarged its female-led team with newly created roles for Bethan Jones (Playground) and Beth Grant (BBC).

Red Arrow Studios International and Playground are teaming up with Georges Simenon Limited (GSL) to develop the classic Inspector Maigret detective novel series as an English-language returning drama.

Lionsgate TV and Colin Callender's Playground are developing a slate of drama series inspired by "extraordinary women of history" for Starz, beginning with an adaptation of Alison Weir's acclaimed biography Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life and its companion novel, Captive Queen.