{"id":17988,"date":"2022-12-12T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-commissions-thriller-euston-films\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:57:48","slug":"bbc-commissions-thriller-from-euston-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-commissions-thriller-from-euston-films\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Commissions Thriller from Euston Films"},"content":{"rendered":"
BBC has commissioned the real-time thriller Nightsleeper<\/em> from Fremantle\u2019s Euston Films for BBC One and iPlayer.<\/p>\n Written by Nick Leather (The Control Room<\/em>, Mother\u2019s Day<\/em>), the six-part series takes place on a sleeper train traveling from Glasgow to London. Rapidly escalating events take place onboard while a government agency tries to intervene before the train reaches what might literally be its final destination.<\/p>\n Euston Films\u2019 managing directors, Kate Harwood and Noemi Spanos, will executive produce alongside Leather and BBC\u2019s Gaynor Holmes. The series will be directed by Jamie Magnus Stone (Doctor Who<\/em>, Ten Pound Poms<\/em>) and produced by Jonathan Curling (The Sister<\/em>, Baghdad Central<\/em>). Fremantle is handling global distribution.<\/p>\n \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to work with Euston Films and the BBC to drive the engine of this real-time thriller and take our audience along for a ride full of personal intrigue, political maneuvering and danger,\u201d Leather said. \u201cBy the time dawn breaks at the end of this journey, no-one involved will ever be the same again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe classic on-screen genre of a runaway train is given a thrilling modern twist by screenwriter Nick Leather, and we find ourselves with a small group of people in a race against time,\u201d Harwood and Spanos said. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to film this in Scotland next year.\u201d<\/p>\n Holmes, commissioning editor for BBC Drama, added, \u201cNick Leather\u2019s ingenious scripts combine a fantastic premise with a nail-biting plot and characters you will root for. We can\u2019t wait to bring Nightsleeper<\/em> hurtling on to the BBC. Viewers will definitely want to catch it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC has commissioned the real-time thriller Nightsleeper from Fremantle\u2019s Euston Films for BBC One and iPlayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":17989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[769,201,1418,2697,5351,5618,5619,5620,5621,5622,5623],"class_list":["post-17988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-iplayer","tag-bbc-one","tag-euston-films","tag-fremantle","tag-gaynor-holmes","tag-jamie-magnus-stone","tag-jonathan-curling","tag-kate-harwood","tag-nick-leather","tag-nightsleeper","tag-noemi-spanos","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n