The crime drama Bergerac – a massive BBC One hit in the 1980s, starring John Nettles – is being rebooted. Here are the details.
Bergerac is back. Created by Doctor Who writer Robert Banks Stewart, the original series starred John Nettles and ran for nine series between 1981 and 1991. It became one of the biggest hits on the BBC schedules, all set on the island of Jersey.
The new version will give the show a “contemporary twist, as Bergerac is thrown into a knotty, high-stakes police investigation and challenged to his very core. He will be forced to confront his demons, while trying to save his family and career”.
The six-part UKTV Original series will be produced by BlackLight TV, part of Banijay UK, and written by Being Human creator Toby Whithouse, alongside Brian Fillis, Catherine Tregenna and Polly Buckle.
In a departure from the original show, the writers will weave one murder...
Bergerac is back. Created by Doctor Who writer Robert Banks Stewart, the original series starred John Nettles and ran for nine series between 1981 and 1991. It became one of the biggest hits on the BBC schedules, all set on the island of Jersey.
The new version will give the show a “contemporary twist, as Bergerac is thrown into a knotty, high-stakes police investigation and challenged to his very core. He will be forced to confront his demons, while trying to save his family and career”.
The six-part UKTV Original series will be produced by BlackLight TV, part of Banijay UK, and written by Being Human creator Toby Whithouse, alongside Brian Fillis, Catherine Tregenna and Polly Buckle.
In a departure from the original show, the writers will weave one murder...
- 4/15/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Exclusive: Sheridan Smith and Céline Buckens have been cast as sisters in The Castaways, a Paramount+ drama series based on Lucy Clarke’s novel.
Smith will play Lori and Buckens is her sibling Erin in the thriller, which marks Clarke’s second series adaptation for Paramount+’s UK service.
After they have a huge flight, Lori boards a plane to Fiji, while Erin does not. The flight never arrives at its tropical destination and months later no wreckage has been located. Erin suddenly hears Lori’s credit card has been used on a remote Fijian island and she later recognizes the pilot on CCTV. She boards a plane to Fiji to track down the truth.
The show jumps between the perspectives of the two sisters, with Erin undertaking an investigation in the modern day and Lori struggling to survive after surviving a crash on a remote island. The truth about...
Smith will play Lori and Buckens is her sibling Erin in the thriller, which marks Clarke’s second series adaptation for Paramount+’s UK service.
After they have a huge flight, Lori boards a plane to Fiji, while Erin does not. The flight never arrives at its tropical destination and months later no wreckage has been located. Erin suddenly hears Lori’s credit card has been used on a remote Fijian island and she later recognizes the pilot on CCTV. She boards a plane to Fiji to track down the truth.
The show jumps between the perspectives of the two sisters, with Erin undertaking an investigation in the modern day and Lori struggling to survive after surviving a crash on a remote island. The truth about...
- 5/2/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Trio join recently launched House Productions to work across film and TV slate.
Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s recently launched film and TV indie House Productions has hired three executives to its development team.
Tom Leggett and writer-producer Polly Buckle have joined as development producers and Ann Phillips as development executive, all based in London.
Leggett joins from Playground Television where he was director of development and where he developed high end drama series for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky & Starz. Prior to Playground, Leggett was senior development editor at Film4 working on films such as 71’, The Riot Club, Macbeth, 12 Years a Slave, High-Rise, Room and Black Sea.
Buckle most recently produced You, Me and the Apocalypse for Sky One/Working Title. She has also produced on Rev for BBC2/Big Talk, Being Human for BBC3/Touchpaper and worked extensively in script development for Working Title Television and Shine Drama, including developing...
Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s recently launched film and TV indie House Productions has hired three executives to its development team.
Tom Leggett and writer-producer Polly Buckle have joined as development producers and Ann Phillips as development executive, all based in London.
Leggett joins from Playground Television where he was director of development and where he developed high end drama series for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky & Starz. Prior to Playground, Leggett was senior development editor at Film4 working on films such as 71’, The Riot Club, Macbeth, 12 Years a Slave, High-Rise, Room and Black Sea.
Buckle most recently produced You, Me and the Apocalypse for Sky One/Working Title. She has also produced on Rev for BBC2/Big Talk, Being Human for BBC3/Touchpaper and worked extensively in script development for Working Title Television and Shine Drama, including developing...
- 9/14/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The drama about the last days of mankind will begin filming in late January
NBC’s upcoming dramedy “Apocalypse” has cast Rob Lowe for its lead.
Lowe, who will play the rebellious priest Father Jude, will be joined by Megan Mullally, Jenna Fischer, Matthew Baynton, Paterson Joseph and Joel Fry.
The 10-episode series follows an extended family whose lives intersect during the last days of mankind on Earth.
See photos: Rob Lowe Is ‘Killing Kennedy': 10 Other Actors Who Played JFK
NBC describes the series as:
A bold, adrenaline-fueled series. Set against a backdrop of apocalyptic chaos, the story follows...
NBC’s upcoming dramedy “Apocalypse” has cast Rob Lowe for its lead.
Lowe, who will play the rebellious priest Father Jude, will be joined by Megan Mullally, Jenna Fischer, Matthew Baynton, Paterson Joseph and Joel Fry.
The 10-episode series follows an extended family whose lives intersect during the last days of mankind on Earth.
See photos: Rob Lowe Is ‘Killing Kennedy': 10 Other Actors Who Played JFK
NBC describes the series as:
A bold, adrenaline-fueled series. Set against a backdrop of apocalyptic chaos, the story follows...
- 1/21/2015
- by Alicia Banks
- The Wrap
Clearly BBC America saw that we posted the SciFiMafia.com Spring and Summer Primetime TV Schedule yesterday and realized they needed to get moving on their programming announcements. Our crafty plan worked! They have now released the premiere date for the final season of the original UK Being Human series, as well as – hooray – the premiere date for the new three-part zombie rehab drama In the Flesh.
Both shows will be part of BBC America‘s “Supernatural Saturday” lineup at 10/9. Being Human will air first, premiering on June 8, followed by the In the Flesh premiering on August 3. The SciFiMafia.com Spring and Summer Primetime TV Schedule has been updated with the addition of these shows:
BBC America Announces Co-production Premieres For Supernatural Saturday Being Human final season premieres June 8 and new mini-series In The Flesh premieres August 3
New York – Thursday, April 4 – BBC America announced today the channel will premiere new...
Both shows will be part of BBC America‘s “Supernatural Saturday” lineup at 10/9. Being Human will air first, premiering on June 8, followed by the In the Flesh premiering on August 3. The SciFiMafia.com Spring and Summer Primetime TV Schedule has been updated with the addition of these shows:
BBC America Announces Co-production Premieres For Supernatural Saturday Being Human final season premieres June 8 and new mini-series In The Flesh premieres August 3
New York – Thursday, April 4 – BBC America announced today the channel will premiere new...
- 4/5/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
BBC America announced today debut dates for the final season of Being Human and the new zombie mini-series In The Flesh later this year. Both shows will be part of the channel’s Supernatural Saturday block. Still full of vampires, ghosts and werewolves, Season 5 of Being Human will start on June 8 at 10 Pm. A Doctor Who and Torchwood alumnus, Toby Whitehouse is the head writer of Being Human with Polly Buckle producing the show’s final season. Being Human is produced by Touchpaper Wales, a Zodiak Media Company, for BBC Cymru Wales and BBC America. As one Beeb show ends, another begins, at least for the short term. The three-part In The Flesh premieres on August 3 at 10 Pm. The mini-series drama deals with zombies being reintegrated into their living families and communities. Now called Pds (Partially Deceased Syndrome) sufferers, zombie teenager Kieren Walker is dealing with the same problems fitting in as his living peers,...
- 4/4/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
We have two big announcements today from BBC America regarding when we Yanks will be seeing the final season of the UK's version of "Being Human" along with word that "In the Flesh" will be arriving on our shores this summer.
From the Press Release:
BBC America has announced that the channel will premiere new co-production "In the Flesh" (read more about it here) and the final season of the hit original "Being Human" series this summer as part of its Supernatural Saturday lineup.
Season 5 of "Being Human" is the final series, but how will it all end when Alex, Tom, and Hal take on their greatest adversary yet? The new three-part drama "In the Flesh," created and written by Dominic Mitchell, is set after a zombie uprising where treated zombies are rehabilitated back into society.
Richard De Croce, Svp Programming, BBC America, commented: "We are excited to again be...
From the Press Release:
BBC America has announced that the channel will premiere new co-production "In the Flesh" (read more about it here) and the final season of the hit original "Being Human" series this summer as part of its Supernatural Saturday lineup.
Season 5 of "Being Human" is the final series, but how will it all end when Alex, Tom, and Hal take on their greatest adversary yet? The new three-part drama "In the Flesh," created and written by Dominic Mitchell, is set after a zombie uprising where treated zombies are rehabilitated back into society.
Richard De Croce, Svp Programming, BBC America, commented: "We are excited to again be...
- 4/4/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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