ZDFE Co-Producing Bronte Sisters Drama

ZDF Enterprises has aligned with Parsonage Productions to develop The Bronte Girls, while separately, it has taken on distribution for the historical drama Between Two Worlds.

The Bronte Girls will tell a fictional account of the last summer Reverend Bronte’s three daughters spent together as teenagers. The six-parter is based on the play of the same name by playwright Caroline Kelly Franklin (Last Night at the Carmine).

Franklin will adapt the story for television together with the director Darcia Martin (Riches, Shakespeare & Hathaway, Call the Midwife). Executive producers are Harvey Myman, Patty Lenahan Ishimoto and Patrick Irwin, who first worked together on Miss Scarlet and the Duke. ZDF Enterprises will hold international distribution rights.

In a separate deal, ZDF Enterprises will represent the drama Between Two Worlds. Available as 3×90 minutes or 6×45 minutes, the series was produced by FFP New Media in co-production with ARD, SWR, Degeto, NDR and WDR. Simone Höller and Michael Smeaton are executive producers. Between Two Worlds is set in the 1950s in a small southwestern German town with a large-scale U.S. military presence and tells a powerful story of friendship between two young women during a time of upheaval.