The Witness
If you happen to watched Channel 4 drama Deceit starring Niamh Algar, you’ll be aware of the true-life case that Netflix is dramatising in The Witness. With the involvement of the Hanscombe household, who had been tragically bereaved following the brutal homicide of Rachel Nickell in 1992, The Witness will concentrate on the expertise of Nickell’s son, who was two years outdated on the time of his mom’s killing. It’s coming from the manufacturing firm behind Legal File, and no solid has but been confirmed.
This Metropolis is Ours
Lacking Gangs of London and Peaky Blinders? This unique crime drama from the adaptor of The Misplaced Kingdom and Shardlake Stephen Butchard would possibly simply match the invoice. It’s the Liverpool and Spain-set story of a drug gang crime boss who, impressed by love, desires to go straight however will his household let him? And can his son reach his takeover bid? With eight episodes, this one’s being primed for a global market. Filming started in April 2024 and Sean Bean is a part of the solid.
In the direction of Zero
A brand new Agatha Christie adaptation is coming to the BBC. This three-part homicide thriller set within the Nineteen Thirties stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Invisible Man) as Nevile, and Ella Lily Hyland (Fifteen-Love) as Audrey – a previously married couple who, regardless of the presence of Nevile’s new spouse, spend a summer time on the coastal property of Nevile’s aunt Girl Tressilian. In starry information, Girl Tressilian is performed by Hollywood royalty Anjelica Huston. We Are Girl Elements‘ Anjana Vasan, The Wire‘s Clarke Peters and extra will co-star within the drama, which started filming in Devon and Bristol in June 2024.
Poisonous City
Netflix will depict one of many UK’s greatest environmental scandals – the Corby poisonings within the late Nineteen Eighties – on this new four-part true crime drama, with an all-star solid together with Jodie Whittaker (pictured above in Physician Who), Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty), Amy Lou Wooden (Intercourse Training), Rory Kinnear (James Bond) and Downton Abbey‘s Brendan Coyle. Poisonous City is being produced by Broke & Bones, the manufacturing firm of Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, and can centre on three moms who tackle an Erin Brockovich-style combat for justice after poisonous waste mismanagement led to a tragically excessive variety of delivery defects in the local people of Corby in Northamptonshire. Manufacturing started in August 2023.
Prepare
This widespread Korean drama is being remade by Firebird Photos, a BBC Studios Manufacturing label, for the UK. Prepare tells the story of a detective who investigates a case that leads him to a world divided into two parallel universes, and whereas his love is lifeless in a single world, she’s very a lot alive within the different. Whereas monitoring down the reality behind his love’s dying, he concurrently tries to guard her within the different, uncovering the connection between the 2 universes.
Trespasses
Introduced in August 2024, this four-part drama set in Nineteen Seventies Belfast gained’t be on display for some time, however it sounds value holding a watch out for when it arrives. Tailored from Louise Kennedy’s acclaimed novel of the identical identify, Trespasses stars Gillian Anderson, Tom Cullen and Lola Pettigrew and tells the story of a younger Catholic trainer who’s drawn in direction of a bootleg affair with an older Protestant man. Grownup Behaviour‘s Daybreak Shadforth directs.
Tuva
EastEnders’ Rose Ayling-Ellis will star in a six-part returning crime drama primarily based on Will Dean’s collection of novels about deaf investigative journalist Tuva Moodyson. The primary collection adapt Dean’s novel Darkish Pines, the place Tuva is working for her hometown newspaper, determined for a headline-breaking scoop, earlier than discovering a serial killer who has been dormant for 20 years has begun to kill once more. The collection is produced by the workforce behind Demise In Paradise, and extra casting and particulars will probably be launched in the end
Underneath Salt Marsh
As reported by Selection, Kelly Reilly, a star of US hit collection Yellowstone, will lead a brand new Welsh-set crime thriller coming to Sky. Underneath Salt Marsh is about an ex-detective (Reilly), now a trainer, who finds the physique of a drowned little one. The invention digs up outdated wounds locally and reheats the chilly case of a lacking little one from years earlier. Filming befell in Wales in late 2024 so don’t anticipate to see this one on screens for a short while but.
Untitled Man Ritchie Mission
Man Ritchie has lined up a really respectable solid for his as-yet-untitled subsequent challenge, coming to Paramount+. Becoming a member of Tom Hardy and Dame Helen Mirren within the world crime collection will probably be Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Madeep Dhillon and Jasmine Jobson. It’s the story of two warring London-based households whose prison empires stretch throughout the globe.
Untitled Jimmy McGovern Drama
Time and Damaged creator Jimmy McGovern has written a brand new feature-length single drama for BBC One. It’s at the moment with out an official title, however will probably be set in and round Liverpool and inform the story of a household coping with the aftermath of an act of sexual abuse dedicated by considered one of their relations after their launch from jail. The solid is led by Anna Friel, who’s joined by Anna Maxwell Martin, David Threlfall, Mark Womack and Bobby Schofield. We’ll convey you extra information because it arrives.
Virdee
Wolf star Sacha Dhawan was initially slated to guide the BBC’s new detective collection Virdee, primarily based on AA Dhand’s bestselling crime novels about Detective Harry Virdee, however he needed to pull out and the position has since been recast with Staz Nair. It’s the story of a Bradford cop who has to analyze the kidnap of an area MP’s daughter. The case will pressure him to reunite with sure unsavoury members of his estranged household as a way to save his kidnapping sufferer, placing him at nice private danger, with some very tough selections to make. Filming started in Bradford in February 2024.
Wahala
Coming to the BBC, this one’s being billed as “Large Little Lies meets Girlfriends meets Peckham“. It’s tailored from Nikki Could’s debut novel of the identical identify, which tells the story of Simi, Ronke and Boo, three London-based thirtysomething Anglo-Nigerian girls whose lives are rocked by the arrival of the mysterious Isobel…
We Go Once more
This six-part comedy drama a couple of household of younger siblings making an attempt to maintain issues going after a severe loss is coming to BBC Three. Created by screenwriter and playwright Janice Okoh (Sanditon), it’s impressed by her stage play Three Birds and is being billed as “…a celebration of black pleasure; of council estates and nook outlets. Of working class dwelling and dealing class desires.” We Go Once more is the working title, and the solid has been introduced as together with newcomers Chenée Taylor, Kaydrah Walker-Wilkie and Akins Subair, alongside appearances from Romola Garai, Sam Buchanan, Ivanno Jeremiah, Jamelia, Talitha Wing and Jennifer Metcalfe.
Welcome to Superb Tuga
As reported by Selection in August 2024, this one’s solely in its infancy however value a point out all the identical. The manufacturing firm behind Netflix’s Heartstopper has optioned Francesca Segal’s new novel Welcome to Superb Tuga for tv. It’s a couple of London-based vet who strikes to a distant island to review endangered tortoises, and who begins to piece collectively a thriller about her personal life on the similar time. It’s very early days on this one, so no casting or additional particulars can be found as but.
What It Feels Like For a Lady
Paris Lees‘ acclaimed memoir is being tailored into an eight-part drama for BBC Three, telling the story of how – as a disenfranchised teenager – she managed to flee a dead-end city within the Midlands into Nottingham’s kinetic underworld, befriending podium dancer Girl Die and being adopted into her makeshift household of chaotic troublemakers, “The Fallen Divas”. Their rollercoaster hedonist way of life takes Lees on a journey of self-discovery that can change her life ceaselessly. The Vacationer‘s Chris Sweeney will direct and filming is simply as a result of start this 12 months, so we’ve received some time to attend for this one.
Wild Cherry
From Nicôle Lecky, the creator of 2022 BBC Three drama Temper, comes a brand new drama for the BBC: Wild Cherry. It’s the story of two rich, privileged girls dwelling in an upmarket gated neighborhood whose dream life is threatened when their teenage daughters turn into concerned in a scandal at their personal college. The solid is led by Home of the Dragon‘s Eve Greatest, and True Detective‘s Carmen Ejogo, alongside Sophie Winkleman and Lecky herself. Filming started in October 2024.
