New BBC One Commissions Across Drama & Factual

LONDON: Charlotte Moore, the director of BBC Content, has unveiled a raft of new commissions for BBC One, including a fourth season of Line of Duty and an adaptation of the young adult novel Noughts and Crosses.

Mammoth Screen is producing the Noughts and Crosses series. Malorie Blackman’s story of first love in a dangerous, adrenaline-fueled fictional dystopia is being adapted by Levi David Addai with Matthew Graham.

Along with the commission of a fourth season of Line of Duty, BBC One is getting a new six-part drama from the same team. Bodyguard is created and written by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Production. The contemporary thriller features the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London’s Metropolitan Police Service.

The network also commissioned the Scottish drama Trust Me from RED Production Company. The four-part character-led thriller is written by Dan Sefton. It is set in Edinburgh and tells the story of Cathy, a hardworking and skilled nurse, who, having lost her job for whistleblowing, is forced to take drastic measures to provide for her daughter.

The Split is a new original drama series from writer Abi Morgan (River, Suffragette, The Hour) and executive producer Jane Featherstone (Broadchurch, River, Humans), produced by Sister Pictures. It examines the fast-paced circuit of high-powered female divorce lawyers, through the lens of three sisters.

BBC One also has new factual commissions, including Serengeti. The production will use specially created camera devices, including moving spy cameras, to film the animals of the Serengeti. The series will also pioneer the use of VR 360-degree shooting.

For the one-hour documentary Stalkers, Wild Pictures gained exclusive access to Paladin, the National Stalking Advocacy Service, who assist high-risk victims of stalking.