Overview
- The broadcaster confirmed commissions spanning dark comedy-crime, a political thriller and a Tudor-era drama for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
- Shy & Lola stars Hayley Squires as Shy and Bel Powley as Lola, adapting French series Cheyenne and Lola into a tale of unlikely allies drawn into a small-town underworld.
- The six-part Shy & Lola is written by Amanda Coe and produced by Clerkenwell Films, part of BBC Studios, with further casting to be announced.
- D-Notice, a six-part series from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, explores the D-notice mechanism in investigative journalism and is Hot Sauce Pictures’ first BBC commission backed by Sony Pictures Television.
- 1536 is an eight-part adaptation by Ava Pickett of her stage play set against Anne Boleyn’s arrest, produced by Drama Republic.