A second series is being filmed for BBC1. The series of four episodes focuses on a different crime and punishment each week, and started filming in November 2011 for airing in 2012. The first episode stars Anne-Maire Duff and Olivia Colman. They are mothers trying to do right by their sons and their community in a battle against guns and crime. The next episode stars Robert Sheehan as a teenager called Stephen. He is convinced that the palliative care nurse played by Sheridan Smith, who is assigned to look after his mother, has a very different agenda.
The Case
Two 60 minute episode ITV drama focused on a straight-
Dancing On The Edge
An explosive new drama series for BBC2 set in the early 1930s following a black jazz band in London during times of extraordinary change. Written and directed by award-winning film-maker Stephen Poliakoff (The Lost Prince), the five-part series follows the Louis Lester Band as they find fame amongst the parties and performances of upper class society in the capital. Initially shocked by black musicians performing in polite society, many recoil, but London's progressive socialites take the bank under their wing.
The Fall
The Fall is a gripping psychological thriller that forensically examines the lives of two hunters. One is a serial killer who stalks his victims at random in and around Belfast and the other is a talented female Detective Superintendent on secondment from the Met who is brought in to catch him. Produced by Artists Studio and written by Allan Cubitt (The Runaway, Murphy's Law, Prime Suspect), the five episodes will follow the police investigation uncovering the intricate story of the lives entangled by a series of murders - both the killer's and the victims' families. Gillian Anderson stars as DSI Gibson, who arrives to conduct a 28 day review at a Belfast station where the police are getting nowhere on a high profile murder case.
Frankie
A modern and redemptive take on the life and work of a dedicated district nurse whose patients matter more to her than her personal life. It's about ordinary lives which are often in huge domestic crisis. Our heroine, Frankie is a heroine for the modern age who looks life and death in they eye; her mission is to make a difference. This is a six 60 minute episode series for BBC1 was created and written by Lucy Gannon (Soldier Soldier).
The Fuse
The Poison Tree
BBC1 daytime series about a man who is accused of murdering his partner, Saskia, his only defence is claiming that it was a case of assisted-
Restless
Dancing On The Edge
An explosive new drama series for BBC2 set in the early 1930s following a black jazz band in London during times of extraordinary change. Written and directed by award-winning film-maker Stephen Poliakoff (The Lost Prince), the five-part series follows the Louis Lester Band as they find fame amongst the parties and performances of upper class society in the capital. Initially shocked by black musicians performing in polite society, many recoil, but London's progressive socialites take the bank under their wing.
The Fall
The Fall is a gripping psychological thriller that forensically examines the lives of two hunters. One is a serial killer who stalks his victims at random in and around Belfast and the other is a talented female Detective Superintendent on secondment from the Met who is brought in to catch him. Produced by Artists Studio and written by Allan Cubitt (The Runaway, Murphy's Law, Prime Suspect), the five episodes will follow the police investigation uncovering the intricate story of the lives entangled by a series of murders - both the killer's and the victims' families. Gillian Anderson stars as DSI Gibson, who arrives to conduct a 28 day review at a Belfast station where the police are getting nowhere on a high profile murder case.
Frankie
A modern and redemptive take on the life and work of a dedicated district nurse whose patients matter more to her than her personal life. It's about ordinary lives which are often in huge domestic crisis. Our heroine, Frankie is a heroine for the modern age who looks life and death in they eye; her mission is to make a difference. This is a six 60 minute episode series for BBC1 was created and written by Lucy Gannon (Soldier Soldier).
The Fuse
A politician wakes up after an alcohol fuelled night and realises that he might be responsible for a murder. A dramatic act of redemption buys him public adoration, but how long can he hide from the truth? Filmed and set in Manchester, the five-
The Ladies’ Paradise
Series set in the seductive and glamorous world of the first ever department store in a booming Northern city. Based on the novel by Emile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise is a rags-
Line of Duty
This BBC2 five episode series follows a multi-stranded investigation over five hours, DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) transferred to AC-12, a fictional anti-corruption unit, after a mistaken shooting during a counter-terrorist operation. Alongside DC Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure), they are assigned to lead an investigation into the alleged corruption by a popular and successful officer, DCI Tony Tate (Lennie James). While Tate cleverly manipulates his unit's figures, DS Arnott questions whether Tate's being made a scapegoat for a culture of instituionalised spin, or is guilty of darker corruption?
Writer Jed Mercurio says: "I'm hugely excited by the opportunity to set a drama in the controversial realities of 21st century policing. Line of Duty is a commentary on the perverse bureaucracy that hamstrings frontline officers, but first and foremost it's a thriller. Lennie James is electric as DCI Tony Tate, a complex and elusive anti-hero, and a formidable antagonist for two of the most exciting young talents in British TV - Martin Compston and Vicky McClure - who play the relentless anti-corruption officers on his trail. Twists and turns are added by a star-studded cast including Gina McKee, Neil Morrissey, Adrian Dunbar, Kate Ashfield, Craig Parkinson and Paul Higgins." The series will air in 2012.
The Mill (Working title)
Channel 4 will be airing a powerful new drama series based on the real life story of Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire. Finding its main characters amongst the multitude of workers employed at the mill, the drama will bring to life what it was really like to be at the coalface of the industrial revolution. At a time of immense social and industrial change, Quarry Bank Mill represented the shining light of modern thinking; the brain child of the financially driven but philanthropic Greg family. Set in the heart of the countryside it is very different to the mills of nearby overcrowded Manchester. Employing hundreds of people, Quarry Bank recruited children as young as nine as unpaid apprentices from orphanages and workhouses; migrants from as far afield as London, Ireland, Scotland and Norfolk flocked to Quarry Bank with its purpose-built village, school, church and surgery. However, the real drive for the Gregs was profit. Hours were long and hard in dangerous and unhealthy conditions which today would be likened to a sweatshop, and for many of this emerging working class, this was their first experience of rules, regulation and employers to answer to. Hard work was rewarded, with one young apprentice eventually becoming the manager of the Mill, but dissention was punished ruthlessly: runaway girls would have their heads shaved. The storylines in the drama will be based on the extraordinary Quarry Bank archive which comprises over 20,000 letters, wage books, contracts, diaries, rent books and interview transcripts.
Produced by Kudos Television Morton (Working title) will have eight hour-long episodes dealing with corporate espionage with a single story arc over the series and a strong female lead.
Mrs Biggs
The story of the life of Charmain, ex-wife of Ronald Biggs, is to be told in a five-part ITV drama produced by ITV Studios called Mrs Biggs. It will chronicle her life from the fateful moment that, as a teenager on a train, she first met and fell in love with the flirtatious and worldly Biggs. It will recount the story of their struggle to stay together in the face of fierce opposition from Chamian's family - aghast at Biggs' criminal record - and their ifyllic life as the parents of young children before money worries forced Biggs to ask for a loan from an old friend to pay the deposit on a house they wanted to buy for their growing family. That friend was Bruce Reynolds, at that moment planning the most famous crime in British History - the Great Train Robbery of August 1963.
The Musketeers
Parade's End
This is a five-part drama for BBC2 adapted by internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard from a quartet of novels by Ford Maddox Ford, considered by many to be one of the literary masterworks of the 20th century. It is set during a formative period of British history - from the twilight years of the Edwardian era to the end of the First World War. At its centre is English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch), his beautiful wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall) and Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette (Adelaide Clemens). Also starring Roger Allam, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Everett, Stephen Graham, Clare Higgins, Janet McTeer, Miranda Richardson, Freddie Fox, Jack Huston, Tom Mison, Geoffrey Palmer, Jamie Parker and Steven Robertson. It's a Mammoth Screen production for the BBC in association with HBO Miniseries and Trademark Films, BBC Worldwide and Lookout Point co-produced with BNP Paribas Fortis Film Fund and Anchorage Entertainment.
The Ladies’ Paradise
Series set in the seductive and glamorous world of the first ever department store in a booming Northern city. Based on the novel by Emile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise is a rags-
Line of Duty
This BBC2 five episode series follows a multi-stranded investigation over five hours, DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) transferred to AC-12, a fictional anti-corruption unit, after a mistaken shooting during a counter-terrorist operation. Alongside DC Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure), they are assigned to lead an investigation into the alleged corruption by a popular and successful officer, DCI Tony Tate (Lennie James). While Tate cleverly manipulates his unit's figures, DS Arnott questions whether Tate's being made a scapegoat for a culture of instituionalised spin, or is guilty of darker corruption?
Writer Jed Mercurio says: "I'm hugely excited by the opportunity to set a drama in the controversial realities of 21st century policing. Line of Duty is a commentary on the perverse bureaucracy that hamstrings frontline officers, but first and foremost it's a thriller. Lennie James is electric as DCI Tony Tate, a complex and elusive anti-hero, and a formidable antagonist for two of the most exciting young talents in British TV - Martin Compston and Vicky McClure - who play the relentless anti-corruption officers on his trail. Twists and turns are added by a star-studded cast including Gina McKee, Neil Morrissey, Adrian Dunbar, Kate Ashfield, Craig Parkinson and Paul Higgins." The series will air in 2012.
The Mill (Working title)
Channel 4 will be airing a powerful new drama series based on the real life story of Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire. Finding its main characters amongst the multitude of workers employed at the mill, the drama will bring to life what it was really like to be at the coalface of the industrial revolution. At a time of immense social and industrial change, Quarry Bank Mill represented the shining light of modern thinking; the brain child of the financially driven but philanthropic Greg family. Set in the heart of the countryside it is very different to the mills of nearby overcrowded Manchester. Employing hundreds of people, Quarry Bank recruited children as young as nine as unpaid apprentices from orphanages and workhouses; migrants from as far afield as London, Ireland, Scotland and Norfolk flocked to Quarry Bank with its purpose-built village, school, church and surgery. However, the real drive for the Gregs was profit. Hours were long and hard in dangerous and unhealthy conditions which today would be likened to a sweatshop, and for many of this emerging working class, this was their first experience of rules, regulation and employers to answer to. Hard work was rewarded, with one young apprentice eventually becoming the manager of the Mill, but dissention was punished ruthlessly: runaway girls would have their heads shaved. The storylines in the drama will be based on the extraordinary Quarry Bank archive which comprises over 20,000 letters, wage books, contracts, diaries, rent books and interview transcripts.
Morton
Produced by Kudos Television Morton (Working title) will have eight hour-long episodes dealing with corporate espionage with a single story arc over the series and a strong female lead.
Mrs Biggs
The story of the life of Charmain, ex-wife of Ronald Biggs, is to be told in a five-part ITV drama produced by ITV Studios called Mrs Biggs. It will chronicle her life from the fateful moment that, as a teenager on a train, she first met and fell in love with the flirtatious and worldly Biggs. It will recount the story of their struggle to stay together in the face of fierce opposition from Chamian's family - aghast at Biggs' criminal record - and their ifyllic life as the parents of young children before money worries forced Biggs to ask for a loan from an old friend to pay the deposit on a house they wanted to buy for their growing family. That friend was Bruce Reynolds, at that moment planning the most famous crime in British History - the Great Train Robbery of August 1963.
The Musketeers
This is a 10 one-hour episode series for BBC1 and is a fresh and contemporary take on the classic characters created by Alexandre Dumas in his much-loved novel. The Musketeers are a crack-team of hugely trained soldiers, far more than the King's personal bodyguards, confronting impossible odds and fighting any battle if the cause is just. The series bursts with escapism, adventure and romance and is set to thrill audiences with cracking stories.
Parade's End
This is a five-part drama for BBC2 adapted by internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard from a quartet of novels by Ford Maddox Ford, considered by many to be one of the literary masterworks of the 20th century. It is set during a formative period of British history - from the twilight years of the Edwardian era to the end of the First World War. At its centre is English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch), his beautiful wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall) and Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette (Adelaide Clemens). Also starring Roger Allam, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Everett, Stephen Graham, Clare Higgins, Janet McTeer, Miranda Richardson, Freddie Fox, Jack Huston, Tom Mison, Geoffrey Palmer, Jamie Parker and Steven Robertson. It's a Mammoth Screen production for the BBC in association with HBO Miniseries and Trademark Films, BBC Worldwide and Lookout Point co-produced with BNP Paribas Fortis Film Fund and Anchorage Entertainment.
The Poison Tree
BBC1 daytime series about a man who is accused of murdering his partner, Saskia, his only defence is claiming that it was a case of assisted-
Restless
2 x 90 minute drama about a young woman who discovers her mother was a British spy during World War II adapted from William Boyd’s novel.
Ripper Street
An 8-part series for BBC1 from Tiger Aspect Productions. Created by Richard Marlow (Mistresses, Waking the Dead), Ripper Street is an extraordinary new drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division - the police precinct from hell - which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart the detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit. Shooting commences in the Spring 2012.
Savage
Warren Brown plays a young Liverpool response cop in a new four-part drama series by BBC Drama Production North. When his best friend is murdered the impact of his brutal death throws his whole life and career into turmoil. He starts to question everything he believes in and the difference between right and wrong. He finds himself increasingly desirous for revenge and a different kind of justice.
The Scapegoat
ITV is filming a period adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel, The Scapegoat, starring Matthew Rhys and Eileen Atkins. The 100 minute film is set in 1952 as England prepares for the coronation. It tells the story of two very different men, John Standing and Johnny Spence, who have one thing in common - a face. Almost exact replicas of each other, they meet by chance in a station bar, each at a crossroads in their life, one setting out on a walking tour after losing his job as a teacher, the other avoiding home after a disastrous business venture. The charming and charismatic Johnny wines and dines his new acquaintance but when John wakes in the morning with a hangover, he is alone and a chauffeur is waiting outside his room, waiting to take him "home". Despite his protests he finds himself sucked irresistibly into another man's life.
Top Of The Lake
A powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness in a paradise where honest work is hard to find filmed in remote and mountainous New Zealand. A twelve-year-old girl stands chest deep in a frozen lake. She is five month's pregnant, and she won't say who the father is, insisting that it was "no one". Then she disappears. Robin Griffin played by Elisabeth Moss, the investigating detective, will find this the case that tests her to her limits. In the search for Tue she will first have to find herself. The programme is being made by UK/Australian company See-Saw Films for BBC2. Also stars Holly Hunter and Peter Mullan.
Touch
This six-part supernatural drama series for BBC3 was written by Jack Thorne. The vengeful dead walk on Earth and only uber-geek Paul can save the living from a fiery Armageddon. Paul is an ordinary young man from an ordinary town who discovers an extraordinary ability - he can see the dead. As he comes to terms with a nightmare reality, he meets others who share his powers and share a horrifying secret - the spirits are waging war on the living. Mankind will be destroyed. But the most terrifying twist is yet to come - Paul discovers that only he holds the key to the world's salvation.
The Village
Ripper Street
An 8-part series for BBC1 from Tiger Aspect Productions. Created by Richard Marlow (Mistresses, Waking the Dead), Ripper Street is an extraordinary new drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division - the police precinct from hell - which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart the detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit. Shooting commences in the Spring 2012.
Savage
Warren Brown plays a young Liverpool response cop in a new four-part drama series by BBC Drama Production North. When his best friend is murdered the impact of his brutal death throws his whole life and career into turmoil. He starts to question everything he believes in and the difference between right and wrong. He finds himself increasingly desirous for revenge and a different kind of justice.
The Scapegoat
ITV is filming a period adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel, The Scapegoat, starring Matthew Rhys and Eileen Atkins. The 100 minute film is set in 1952 as England prepares for the coronation. It tells the story of two very different men, John Standing and Johnny Spence, who have one thing in common - a face. Almost exact replicas of each other, they meet by chance in a station bar, each at a crossroads in their life, one setting out on a walking tour after losing his job as a teacher, the other avoiding home after a disastrous business venture. The charming and charismatic Johnny wines and dines his new acquaintance but when John wakes in the morning with a hangover, he is alone and a chauffeur is waiting outside his room, waiting to take him "home". Despite his protests he finds himself sucked irresistibly into another man's life.
Top Of The Lake
A powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness in a paradise where honest work is hard to find filmed in remote and mountainous New Zealand. A twelve-year-old girl stands chest deep in a frozen lake. She is five month's pregnant, and she won't say who the father is, insisting that it was "no one". Then she disappears. Robin Griffin played by Elisabeth Moss, the investigating detective, will find this the case that tests her to her limits. In the search for Tue she will first have to find herself. The programme is being made by UK/Australian company See-Saw Films for BBC2. Also stars Holly Hunter and Peter Mullan.
Touch
This six-part supernatural drama series for BBC3 was written by Jack Thorne. The vengeful dead walk on Earth and only uber-geek Paul can save the living from a fiery Armageddon. Paul is an ordinary young man from an ordinary town who discovers an extraordinary ability - he can see the dead. As he comes to terms with a nightmare reality, he meets others who share his powers and share a horrifying secret - the spirits are waging war on the living. Mankind will be destroyed. But the most terrifying twist is yet to come - Paul discovers that only he holds the key to the world's salvation.
The Village
This is an epic and emotional story of 20th century Britain seen through the life and times of one Derbyshire village. One man, Bert Middleton, lives across the entire hundred years. His life, from boyhood to extreme old age, provides the narrative backbone. His last great act of remembering is our way in to an examination of who we are and why.
Written by award-winning write Peter Moffat, over the course of the series the camera never leaves the village. Everything - great political evens, upheavals in national identity, ware and peace, ways of working, way of being, how we lived, how we looked, how we died, what we ate, rules kept and rebellions made, sex, religion, class, the shaping of modern memory - refracted through the lives of the villagers and the village.
True Love
This will be a serial made partly through improvisation. Five universal stories explore love in the modern day and each is led by a big name actor: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Jane Horrocks, Ashley Walters and David Morrissey. True love explores powerful and overlapping love stories set in the same town. Each story looks at a different relationship and explores a different dilemma or situation. When it comes to love and relationships, there is never an easy "right answer" - telling the truth is complicated, and the conflict of desire and responsibility can be explosive.
Wolf Hall
This is a fictionalized biography set in medieval England, chronicling the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII. Thomas Cromwell helped King Henry VIII get an annulment for his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, to allow him to marry Anne Boleyn. He was also pivotal in advocating the English Reformation; however he fell out of favour with King Henry VIII who later had him executed. This will be a four-part mini-series.
Written by award-winning write Peter Moffat, over the course of the series the camera never leaves the village. Everything - great political evens, upheavals in national identity, ware and peace, ways of working, way of being, how we lived, how we looked, how we died, what we ate, rules kept and rebellions made, sex, religion, class, the shaping of modern memory - refracted through the lives of the villagers and the village.
True Love
This will be a serial made partly through improvisation. Five universal stories explore love in the modern day and each is led by a big name actor: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Jane Horrocks, Ashley Walters and David Morrissey. True love explores powerful and overlapping love stories set in the same town. Each story looks at a different relationship and explores a different dilemma or situation. When it comes to love and relationships, there is never an easy "right answer" - telling the truth is complicated, and the conflict of desire and responsibility can be explosive.
Wolf Hall
This is a fictionalized biography set in medieval England, chronicling the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII. Thomas Cromwell helped King Henry VIII get an annulment for his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, to allow him to marry Anne Boleyn. He was also pivotal in advocating the English Reformation; however he fell out of favour with King Henry VIII who later had him executed. This will be a four-part mini-series.
