{"id":18403,"date":"2023-03-21T10:25:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/saffron-cherry-secures-tv-rights-dales-detective\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T10:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:26:41","slug":"saffron-cherry-secures-tv-rights-for-the-dales-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/saffron-cherry-secures-tv-rights-for-the-dales-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"Saffron Cherry Secures TV Rights for The Dales Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saffron Cherry Productions (<em>The Madame Blanc Mysteries<\/em>) has secured the rights to develop Julia Chapman\u2019s <em>The Dales Detective<\/em> book series for television.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery series follows former Met detective Samson O\u2019Brien as he returns to his hometown in the Yorkshire Dales to set up a detective agency. Once there, he ends up joining forces with the owner of Dales Dating Agency to solve a string of local crimes.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Dales Detective<\/em> books were previously made into a prime-time TV show in France, where it became a ratings winner.<\/p>\n<p>The English adaptation is being developed by Saffron Cherry\u2019s Caroline Roberts-Cherry and Jane Langford (<em>Hollyoaks<\/em>, <em>Metastasis<\/em>, <em>Jordskott<\/em> season two, <em>Origin<\/em>) and written by Stewart Harcourt (<em>Agatha Raisin<\/em>, <em>Poirot<\/em>, <em>Maigret<\/em>). Saffron Cherry\u2019s Sally Lindsay will serve as executive producer.<\/p>\n<p>The book series, published by Pan Macmillan, has seven novels out so far. The eighth book, <em>Date with Evil<\/em>, is due in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled that Julia has trusted us with her novels and are excited by the adaptation of [The Dales Detective\u2019s A Date with Evil] that Stuart Harcourt has delivered,\u201d Lindsay, creative director of Saffron Cherry said.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts-Cherry, managing director of Saffron Cherry, added, \u201cWe are incredibly excited to be developing The Dales Detective for television. Following the huge success of The Madame Blanc Mysteries, we feel incredibly well placed to hit all the right notes with this much-loved book series, and create a long running show loved by fans new and old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe passion which Caroline, Sally and the team at Saffron Cherry have brought to this project so far has been amazing and I\u2019m over the moon that Stewart Harcourt is on board for the screenplay,\u201d Chapman said. \u201cI know Samson, Delilah and the good folk of Bruncliffe have found the best of all possible homes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saffron Cherry Productions (The Madame Blanc Mysteries) has secured the rights to develop Julia Chapman\u2019s The Dales Detective book series for television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":18404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[6319,6320,6321,6322,5150,4282,6323,6324],"class_list":["post-18403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-caroline-roberts-cherry","tag-date-with-evil","tag-jane-langford","tag-julia-chapman","tag-saffron-cherry-productions","tag-sally-lindsay","tag-stewart-harcourt","tag-the-dales-detective","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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