U.S. streamer BritBox is planning for fall after boarding Keeley Hawes-fronted British crime drama Honour.
The digital platform will launch the two-parter, which is written by Vanity Fair’s Gwyneth Hughes, in October, as an original co-production with ITV. The series was filmed last year, so has not been interrupted by the Coronavirus production shutdown.
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The two-parter will see Bodyguard star Hawes play the real-life detective who brought five killers to justice in the true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man. It tells the powerful story of Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode’s passionate search to discover the fate of missing 20-year old Banaz.
The digital platform will launch the two-parter, which is written by Vanity Fair’s Gwyneth Hughes, in October, as an original co-production with ITV. The series was filmed last year, so has not been interrupted by the Coronavirus production shutdown.
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The two-parter will see Bodyguard star Hawes play the real-life detective who brought five killers to justice in the true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man. It tells the powerful story of Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode’s passionate search to discover the fate of missing 20-year old Banaz.
- 4/24/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Bodyguard’s Keeley Hawes is to star in a British crime drama written by The Girl and Vanity Fair writer Gwyneth Hughes for ITV. Honour is to be produced by Hera Pictures and exec produced by Peter Kosminsky.
The two-parter will see Hawes star as the real-life detective who brought five killers to justice in the true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man. It tells the powerful story of Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode’s passionate search to discover the fate of missing 20-year old Banaz.
Richard Laxton (Mrs Wilson) will direct the drama, which is produced by Liza Marshall’s Hera Pictures, which is making medical thriller Temple for Sky, and Hawes’ indie Buddy Club. Hawes will exec produce with Kosminsky, Marshall and Hughes. Alliea Nazar will produce. It was commissioned for ITV by Head of Drama,...
The two-parter will see Hawes star as the real-life detective who brought five killers to justice in the true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man. It tells the powerful story of Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode’s passionate search to discover the fate of missing 20-year old Banaz.
Richard Laxton (Mrs Wilson) will direct the drama, which is produced by Liza Marshall’s Hera Pictures, which is making medical thriller Temple for Sky, and Hawes’ indie Buddy Club. Hawes will exec produce with Kosminsky, Marshall and Hughes. Alliea Nazar will produce. It was commissioned for ITV by Head of Drama,...
- 6/24/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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