Tag: Simon Cox

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.

Sky Studios and Groenlandia have come together to co-produce Someone Killed Spiderman—Accidentally Famous (w.t.), inspired by the story of how Italian pop band 883 was formed.

ZDF, Acorn TV and TVNZ have co-commissioned the new murder mystery series A Remarkable Place to Die from Screentime New Zealand and Real Film Berlin, in association with Banijay Rights.

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.

Several distributors and producers discuss the burgeoning genre of truth-based dramas and the key aspects of fictionalizing real events.