{"id":22249,"date":"2025-02-26T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:15:58","slug":"bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Studios Thrillers Land Adaptations in CEE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Studios has signed deals that will see <em>Smother<\/em> adapted in Slovakia and <em>Doctor Foster<\/em> remade in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Smother<\/em> follows a widower who, in the aftermath of her husband\u2019s tragic death, discovers the complex and damaged relationships that he had with his family and the effects his controlling, manipulative behavior had on each of them. Film Kolektiv will produce a 12-part Slovakian adaptation for TV Mark\u00edza and Voyo.<\/p>\n<p>Slovakian adaptations of other BBC Studios titles include <em>Mistresses<\/em> (<em>Milenky<\/em>), which aired in 2018, and <em>Doctor Foster<\/em> (<em>Zrada<\/em>), which aired in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The original <em>Smother<\/em> was written by Kate O\u2019Riordan (<em>Mr. Selfridge<\/em>) and was produced by BBC Studios and Treasure Entertainment for RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n<p>In the Czech Republic, a deal for a ten-part adaptation of <em>Doctor Foster<\/em> has been signed with TV Nova and Voyo. The thriller, the world\u2019s most adapted scripted format this decade, tells the story of a trusted doctor whose life implodes when she suspects her husband of having an affair.<\/p>\n<p><em>Doctor Foster<\/em> was originally written by Mike Bartlett and produced by Drama Republic in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBBC Studios continues to be one of the top scripted format distributors in the world, owing to the incredibly crafted stories and characters within our catalog, available to be retold in new ways and to new audiences around the world,\u201d said Magdalena VanNiekerk, format sales director of unscripted at BBC Studios. \u201cRelationship and family-based dramas like <em>Smother<\/em> and <em>Doctor Foster<\/em> are appreciated by our customers as they share universal themes, such as betrayal and revenge in these cases, which resonates with audiences wherever they are in the world. These types of stories have the ability to spark conversations long after the episodes end. The Mark\u00edza and TV Nova groups are long-standing partners, and we look forward to working together again to create another local hit for their audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Studios has signed deals that will see Smother adapted in Slovakia and Doctor Foster remade in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":22251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1138,2522,10311,3756,8406,8689,6087],"class_list":["post-22249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-studios","tag-doctor-foster","tag-magdalena-vanniekerk","tag-smother","tag-tv-markiza","tag-tv-nova","tag-voyo","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBC Studios Thrillers Land Adaptations in CEE - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC Studios Thrillers Land Adaptations in CEE - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BBC Studios has signed deals that will see Smother adapted in Slovakia and Doctor Foster remade in the Czech Republic.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-26T15:36:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-26T16:15:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/02\/2025-02-26-BBCStudios-Smother-0225.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee\/\",\"name\":\"BBC Studios Thrillers Land Adaptations in CEE - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-26T15:36:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-26T16:15:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-studios-thrillers-land-adaptations-in-cee\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC Studios Thrillers Land Adaptations in CEE\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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