{"id":8923,"date":"2018-01-30T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/sweet-taste-one-bad-apple\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T14:36:09","slug":"the-sweet-taste-of-one-bad-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/the-sweet-taste-of-one-bad-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sweet Taste of One Bad Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

The creator and writers of <\/em>One Bad Apple, a new female-led supernatural drama being sold by ZDF Enterprises, discuss with <\/em>TV Drama what went into crafting this \u201cwoman\u2019s version of Darth Vader\u201d in a lead character.<\/em><\/p>\n

Described as Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> and Clueless<\/em> meets Riverdale<\/em> and The Omen<\/em>wrapped around Indiana Jones<\/em>, the new drama One Bad Apple <\/em>was recently unveiled to the global market. The series was created and developed by Tuvalu Entertainment and is being co-produced and distributed by ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE). The story follows what happens when the Devil\u2019s daughter is enrolled in a respectable English boarding school and begins to take over. The central character is Mercy, who doesn\u2019t know that she\u2019s the child of Satan himself, nor does she initially realize that her mission at the boarding school is to find and destroy an ancient artifact in order for her father to come back to Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I created the idea for One Bad Apple<\/em>, I wanted to explore what a strong, British, female-led drama would look like, that would have a woman\u2019s version of Darth Vader\u2014and that\u2019s certainly what Mercy becomes very quickly \"***Image***\"in the first season,\u201d explains Paul \u201cPJ\u201d Johnson, executive producer at Tuvalu. \u201cI loved the idea of having a female who was trying to come to terms with being a woman while trying to comprehend that she can now control the minds of people around her and ultimately use this newfound power through the worlds of politics, media and business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson shared the concept with Robert Franke, the VP of ZDFE.drama, who says he was \u201cimmediately intrigued.\u201d He tells TV Drama <\/em>that it \u201cticks all the boxes of what we\u2019re looking for,\u201d in that it is a high-concept, female-skewing drama that taps into a younger demographic. \u201cWe see that there is a lack of female-skewing drama series; it\u2019s something that\u2019s underserved and I\u2019m an advocate for it. One Bad Apple <\/em>is also a unique blend of drama and the fantasy genre, with themes that we all know in some way but haven\u2019t seen before in this combination.\u201d<\/p>\n

To carry out his vision, Johnson tapped the father-daughter writing team of Gavin Scott (whose credits include The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles<\/em> for George Lucas and Small Soldiers<\/em> for Steven Spielberg) and Rebecca Scott (Investigation Discovery\u2019s Blood Relatives<\/em> and Murder Among Friends<\/em>). The pair went about crafting a story arc that organically lends itself to returning seasons, which are already on the planner.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very inspired by the idea from the beginning,\u201d says Rebecca. \u201cMy father and I are very close, but we\u2019re really different as artists and as people in terms of our creative processes. Once we put our heads together and started throwing out ideas\u2014and there are no bad ideas when you\u2019re brainstorming\u2014everything just came [together]. It was like a fountain unleashed. We were both building on each other\u2019s ideas so quickly, and a lot of momentum came very naturally\u2026. We could see the lives of the characters being mapped out in front of us as we created the first episode.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gavin adds that he was able to approach the story with his \u201chistorical imagination\u201d as well, thinking about the mission Mercy could be on and the artifacts that might actually be hidden in the setting of the English countryside. \u201cRebecca and I gave this a wonderful, strong, dramatic arc, but in addition to that, it has a universal theme: in your teenage years, you discover who you are. Mercy\u2019s mission is a dark one, but that\u2019s interesting too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mercy has an adversary in the story as well, Lydia. When the women meet, each knows instinctively that the other is her enemy. Lydia, it turns out, is the last of a long line of women sworn to defend the Holy Grail and the mysterious artifacts that surround and protect it. \u201cThe story becomes the battle between two teenage girls who have a really fascinating, dramatic situation to deal with,\u201d says Gavin. \u201cBut both of them are having to discover who they really are over the course of this. Rebecca and I both [recognized] that this is really what goes on when you\u2019re a teenager.\u201d<\/p>\n

Franke agrees that there are universal themes in One Bad Apple<\/em> that add to its broad international appeal. He says that elements of fantasy and magic are strong draws for the younger Generation Z and millennial demographics. \u201cIt\u2019s a coming-of-age story, and that never goes out of fashion. At the same time, it\u2019s so much more than just another TV series for a young demographic because there are many multilayered characters besides these two main characters. It\u2019s for every demographic, and that is very appealing. There is nothing similar in the marketplace right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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