Exclusive: BritBox is to adapt Ml Longworth’s crime novels into a series titled Murder In Provence, in what is planned to be the first of many U.S. and UK co-productions for the BBC and ITV-owned streamer.
As previously reported by Deadline, Harlots and Ghosts producer Monumental Television had secured the rights to the books and attached Shelagh Stephenson, whose credits include Downton Abbey and Shirley, to write the series.
The project lands at BritBox as a series of three feature-length episodes, which will star Roger Allam (Endeavour), Nancy Carroll (The Crown), and Keala Settle (The Greatest Showman).
Allam stars as Antoine Verlaque, Investigating Judge in Aix-en Provence, while Carroll is his romantic partner Marine Bonnet. Together, they investigate the murders, mysteries, and dark underbelly of their idyllic home in the south of France. Their efforts are aided by Hélène (Settle), a detective and Antoine’s trusted confidante.
As previously reported by Deadline, Harlots and Ghosts producer Monumental Television had secured the rights to the books and attached Shelagh Stephenson, whose credits include Downton Abbey and Shirley, to write the series.
The project lands at BritBox as a series of three feature-length episodes, which will star Roger Allam (Endeavour), Nancy Carroll (The Crown), and Keala Settle (The Greatest Showman).
Allam stars as Antoine Verlaque, Investigating Judge in Aix-en Provence, while Carroll is his romantic partner Marine Bonnet. Together, they investigate the murders, mysteries, and dark underbelly of their idyllic home in the south of France. Their efforts are aided by Hélène (Settle), a detective and Antoine’s trusted confidante.
- 5/25/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Monumental Television, the UK producer behind Harlots and Ghosts, is set to adapt Ml Longworth’s crime novels into a television series.
Deadline understands that Monumental is in advanced development on the series, which is currently titled Murder In Provence and draws on Longworth’s Verlaque & Bonnet stories, set in the south of France. We hear that Shelagh Stephenson, whose credits include Downton Abbey and Shirley, is attached to write three episodes of the crime series.
Canadian author Longworth has written eight Verlaque & Bonnet novels, the first of which is Aix-en-Provence-set Death at the Château. It centers on Antoine Verlaque, the handsome chief magistrate of Aix, and his on-again, off-again love interest, law professor Marine Bonnet. They team to unravel the mysterious case of local nobleman Etienne de Bremont, who falls to his death from his family château.
Monumental Television is run by Oscar-nominated producers Alison Owen and Debra Hayward.
Deadline understands that Monumental is in advanced development on the series, which is currently titled Murder In Provence and draws on Longworth’s Verlaque & Bonnet stories, set in the south of France. We hear that Shelagh Stephenson, whose credits include Downton Abbey and Shirley, is attached to write three episodes of the crime series.
Canadian author Longworth has written eight Verlaque & Bonnet novels, the first of which is Aix-en-Provence-set Death at the Château. It centers on Antoine Verlaque, the handsome chief magistrate of Aix, and his on-again, off-again love interest, law professor Marine Bonnet. They team to unravel the mysterious case of local nobleman Etienne de Bremont, who falls to his death from his family château.
Monumental Television is run by Oscar-nominated producers Alison Owen and Debra Hayward.
- 3/16/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
New feature projects from Ari Folman, Anca Damian, Karsten Killerich were also presented.
Spanish animator Salvador Simo was voted European director of the year by delegates attending the Cartoon Movie Co-Production Forum in Bordeaux in France this week (March 5-7).
Simo’s feature Bunuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles, which is being handled internationally by Latido, screened as a sneak preview at the forum.
Stuttgart-based sales agent Sola Media was voted European distributor of the year.
Dutch animation studio Submarine was named European producer of the year. The company is involved with four of the projects presented at the...
Spanish animator Salvador Simo was voted European director of the year by delegates attending the Cartoon Movie Co-Production Forum in Bordeaux in France this week (March 5-7).
Simo’s feature Bunuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles, which is being handled internationally by Latido, screened as a sneak preview at the forum.
Stuttgart-based sales agent Sola Media was voted European distributor of the year.
Dutch animation studio Submarine was named European producer of the year. The company is involved with four of the projects presented at the...
- 3/8/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Mike Leigh and Athol Fugard star in Hall's ambitious bid to restore Hampstead to its illustrious past
It's good to see Ed Hall installed at Hampstead and announcing a juicy opening season: it includes Hall directing Shelagh Stephenson's Enlightenment, Athol Fugard at the helm of his own play, The Train Driver, and Melly Still's Beasts and Beauties, a funny, magical piece that premiered at Bristol Old Vic a few years back (not to mention the return of Mike Leigh, who will direct his 1979 hit Ecstasy.
It's brave of Hall to take on the Hampstead challenge, a theatre that has already seen off Anthony Clark, and has never really recovered from the move from its leaky old premises to a spanking new theatre. The place might have keeled over entirely if it had not been for the Arts Council's determination not to see it fail.
There was a time when...
It's good to see Ed Hall installed at Hampstead and announcing a juicy opening season: it includes Hall directing Shelagh Stephenson's Enlightenment, Athol Fugard at the helm of his own play, The Train Driver, and Melly Still's Beasts and Beauties, a funny, magical piece that premiered at Bristol Old Vic a few years back (not to mention the return of Mike Leigh, who will direct his 1979 hit Ecstasy.
It's brave of Hall to take on the Hampstead challenge, a theatre that has already seen off Anthony Clark, and has never really recovered from the move from its leaky old premises to a spanking new theatre. The place might have keeled over entirely if it had not been for the Arts Council's determination not to see it fail.
There was a time when...
- 7/7/2010
- by Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
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