{"id":6256,"date":"2016-06-20T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-one-acorn-partner-for-new-christie-adaptation\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:14:17","slug":"bbc-one-commissions-new-agatha-christie-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-one-commissions-new-agatha-christie-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC One Commissions New Agatha Christie Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">LONDON\/SILVER SPRING: The Agatha Christie 1925 short story\u00a0<i>The Witness For The Prosecution <\/i>is to be adapted for BBC One, with Acorn Media Enterprises on board as the U.S. co-production partner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The story will be adapted by\u00a0Sarah Phelps, who worked on the Agatha Christie-based\u00a0<i>And Then There Were None<\/i> last year.\u00a0Julian Jarrold will direct the two-part miniseries, which will be co-produced by\u00a0Mammoth Screen and\u00a0Agatha Christie Productions. RLJ Entertainment&#8217;s Acorn Media Enterprises has secured all U.S. rights, as well as\u00a0secondary rights in Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWith <i>And Then There Were None<\/i>, we reminded viewers just how brilliant Agatha Christie\u2019s plotting is and just how modern her stories could be,&#8221; said Hilary Strong, executive producer and CEO of Agatha Christie Limited. &#8220;We are delighted to be working with Mammoth Screen and Sarah Phelps again to deliver another iconic title for the BBC and our international co-production partners Acorn Media Enterprises and A+E Studios.\u00a0With <i>The Witness For The Prosecution<\/i>, Sarah has worked her magic on Christie\u2019s timeless story. Combining Sarah\u2019s brilliance with the excellent and skillful eye of our director Julian Jarrold, we expect to deliver a show that will thrill both audiences who have enjoyed Christie\u2019s work before and those who are coming to it for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Writer Sarah Phelps said: \u201cWith the long terrible shadow of the Great War falling across the rackety, feral 1920s, <i>The Witness For The Prosecution<\/i> is a compelling story of deceit, desire, murder, money and morality, innocence and guilt, heartbreak and most painful and dangerous of all, love. At the center of this dark and tangled net is the astonishing character of Romaine, a noir heroine for all our times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mammoth Screen Executive Producer Karen Thrussell added, \u201c<i>And Then There Were None<\/i>\u00a0made a huge impact last year, garnering great reviews and audiences of over 8 million. We\u2019re thrilled to be reunited with Sarah Phelps as she takes on another iconic title, an incendiary courtroom drama that will keep you guessing right to the very end. The source material is so strong, and we hope the end result will be every bit as striking as <i>And Then There Were None<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/SILVER SPRING: The Agatha Christie 1925 short story The Witness For The Prosecution is to be adapted for BBC One, with Acorn Media Enterprises on board as the U.S. co-production partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":6257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[790,179,546,201,368],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-acorn-media-enterprises","tag-acorn-tv","tag-agatha-christie","tag-bbc-one","tag-mammoth-screen","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 One Commissions New Agatha Christie Adaptation - 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-one-commissions-new-agatha-christie-adaptation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC One Commissions New Agatha Christie Adaptation - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LONDON\/SILVER SPRING: The Agatha Christie 1925 short story The Witness For The Prosecution is to be adapted for BBC One, with Acorn Media Enterprises on board as the U.S. co-production partner.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-one-commissions-new-agatha-christie-adaptation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-20T14:41:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-06-20T18:14:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/09\/Witness-Prosecution-616.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\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-one-commissions-new-agatha-christie-adaptation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-one-commissions-new-agatha-christie-adaptation\/\",\"name\":\"BBC One Commissions New Agatha Christie Adaptation - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-06-20T14:41:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-06-20T18:14:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-one-commissions-new-agatha-christie-adaptation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-one-commissions-new-agatha-christie-adaptation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-one-commissions-new-agatha-christie-adaptation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC One Commissions New Agatha Christie Adaptation\"}]},{\"@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\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\",\"name\":\"Mansha Daswani\",\"description\":\"Mansha Daswani is the editor-in-chief and associate publisher of World Screen. 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