Ahead of MIPCOM 2023, get the inside scoop from TBI Magazine on how BlackBox and Clapperboard Studios adapted Lucy Clarke's bestselling novel for Paramount+.
Paramount+ today released a series of teaser images, giving the first glimpse of Annabel Scholey, Jack Farthing and Luke Treadaway in their lead roles in new original UK drama series 'The Serial Killer's Wife'.
Paramount+ has released a series of official first-look images for upcoming UK original series THE CASTAWAYS, coming later this year. Brimming with spine-chilling suspense, the first shots released from the hotly anticipated Lucy Clarke adaptation offer a glimpse of Sheridan Smith and Céline Buckens in the lead roles as sisters Lori and Erin Holme.
Best-of-British streamer BritBox International has added The Ex-Wife to its August slate in the U.S. The series will premiere on the streaming service in the U.S. on August 10.
Paramount+ has greenlit an adaptation of 'The Serial Killer's Wife', a UK TV drama about a woman whose butter-wouldn’t-melt husband is arrested for the murder of his former assistant. The series is produced by BlackBox and Clapperboard Studios.
British actors Julia Ormond (“Ladies in Black”) and Lydia Page (“Blue Jean”) are set to soon appear in psychological horror movie “Home Education” directed by Italy’s Andrea Niada. Set in the scenic Sila plateau in Italy’s Southern Calabria region, “Home Education” revolves around a family that are followers of an esoteric cult and live in a secluded house deep in the woods.
Sheridan Smith and Céline Buckens have been cast as sisters in The Castaways, a Paramount+ drama series based on Lucy Clarke’s novel. UK producers Clapperboard Studios and Blackbox Multimedia are attached, with filming kicking off on location in Greece and Fiji.
Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Golden Circle) and Lucien Laviscount (Emily In Paris) are underway on feature rom-com This Time Next Year, which heralds from producers Night Train Media and BlackBox Multimedia. The film is adapted by Sophie Cousens’ from her novel of the same name and is being directed by Nick Moore, editor of hit comedies including Love Actually, Notting Hill and The Full Monty. Protagonist Pictures is handling worldwide sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming Cannes market.
Jess Ryder’s psychological thriller The Ex-Wife is getting the TV treatment, and the first look pictures are as tense as they come. Coming to Paramount+, it is the first of the streaming giant’s original dramas commissioned in the UK.
Paramount Plus has revealed a further slate of scripted and unscripted U.K. original series ahead of the launch of the streaming service in the U.K. this summer, including THE EX WIFE, produced by BlackBox Multimedia, Clapperboard Studios, and Night Train Media, with Night Train financing and controlling worldwide distribution rights with All3Media International. The series will star Celine Buckens (Showtrial) and is written by Catherine Steadman.
