{"id":13481,"date":"2020-07-22T09:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-uk-unveils-scripted-commissions\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:12:10","slug":"britbox-uk-unveils-scripted-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-uk-unveils-scripted-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"BritBox UK Unveils Scripted Commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BritBox UK has announced new scripted original commissions, including <em>The Beast Must Die <\/em>from New Regency Television and Ridley Scott\u2019s Scott Free.<\/p>\n<p>Reemah Sakaan, group director of ITV SVOD and chief creative and brand officer at BritBox Global, said, &#8220;BritBox Originals need to be bold, bingeable and distinctively British. Creating this exceptional roll call of talent, stories and productions in our first drama slate to add exclusively to the treasure trove of BritBox boxsets from every U.K. PSB is something no one else can do, we can&#8217;t wait to bring them to subscribers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Lygo, ITV\u2019s director of television who leads BritBox U.K. originals, added, &#8220;BritBox stands for the best of British and with this high-caliber slate of original drama commissions, we are bringing the very best of U.K. creative talent to a U.K. streamer for the first time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The five-part revenge thriller\u00a0<em>The Beast Must Die<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>based on the novel by Nicholas Blake stars Cush Jumbo, Billy Howle and Nathaniel Parker, telling the story of a grieving mother who infiltrates the life of the man she believes killed her son.\u00a0<em>The Beast Must Die<\/em> is being directed by Dome Karukoski, produced by Sarada McDermott and adapted by screenwriter Gaby Chiappe.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Rubin, head of New Regency Television International, said, \u201cWe are tremendously excited to be bringing Nicholas Blake\u2019s gripping novel to the screen, as the first drama for New Regency Television out of the U.K.\u2014and one of the first BritBox originals. It\u2019s been adapted brilliantly by Gaby, and we couldn\u2019t ask for a more talented cast and team to bring it to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marina Brackenbury, head of TV and film at Scott Free UK, added: \u201c<em>The Beast Must Die <\/em>is both intensely emotional and thrilling, with a fresh and exciting psychology at play between all the characters; Dome and our stellar cast each bring a very personal take to the material which\u2014along with our partners New Regency, BritBox and Nathaniel Parker\u2014we feel will undoubtedly translate as a must-see for audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also adapted from a novel, the six-part <em>Crime<\/em> is set in Edinburgh and produced\u00a0by Buccaneer Media, with Dougray Scott as Detective Inspector Ray Lennox, who is investigating the disappearance of a schoolgirl.<\/p>\n<p><em>Magpie Murders<\/em>, adapted from the bestseller written by Anthony Horowitz, is a commissioned with Masterpiece on PBS from Eleventh Hour Films.\u00a0&#8220;This is an extraordinary and distinctive drama,&#8221; 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