Rising British political star Jess Phillips is to have her book Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth turned into a TV drama by Happy Valley producer Red Production Company Company. The Labour MP, an outspoken critic of Brexit, who has recently dealt with a torrent of rape threats on Twitter…

Happy Valley and Downton Abbey star Siobhan Finneran and Ant Man and The Wasp and Ready Player One star Hannah John-Kamen have joined Netflix drama The Stranger. The pair will star alongside The Hobbit and Berlin Station star Richard Armitage in the eight-part crime drama from the team behind crime drama…

UK broadcaster Alibi, which is operated by Discovery and BBC-backed UKTV, is moving into original commissioning for the first time with a Happy Valley-meets-Silent Witness-esque crime drama. Traces is produced by Happy Valley and Safe producer Red Production Company. The drama is a six-part series written by Scott & Ba…

The Hobbit and Berlin Station star Richard Armitage is to front a crime drama for Netflix as the SVOD service reunites with the team behind crime drama Safe. Armitage, whose Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz-directed feature The Lodge is at the Sundance Film Festival, is fronting The Stranger. The eight-episode series…

Hulu has come on board Anna Friel-fronted British drama Butterfly after a deal with Fremantle. The U.S. streaming service will launch the three-part mini-series on January 18. Fronted by the Marcella star, Butterfly is penned by The Secret Agent writer Tony Marchant. It tells the story of the complex relationship…

How To Get Away With Murder star Alfred Enoch is replacing Jodie Whittaker in the second season of BBC drama Trust Me. The series, which is produced by Happy Valley producer Red Production Company, was a hit for the British public broadcaster last year with over 6M viewers. However, Whittaker's new job as the Doctor…

EXCLUSIVE: Leading UK TV producer Nicola Shindler, founder of Red Production Company, is to become CEO of Studiocanal UK following the departure of long-time UK boss Danny Perkins. Shindler will join from October 1 and will report to Studiocanal CEO Didier Lupfer. Maxime Saada, CEO of the Canal Plus Group and…

Fresh from the success of A Very English Scandal, writer Russell T Davies is focusing on AIDs in the 1980s for his next British drama project. The Doctor Who writer (above) has created The Boys, a five-part series for Channel 4. The series is produced by Studiocanal-owned Red Production Company, which recently made…

British broadcaster Channel 4 has hired Red Production Company's Caroline Hollick as its new Head of Drama following the departure of Beth Willis. Hollick, who has worked on series including BBC One crime drama Happy Valley and Netflix's Michael C Hall-fronted thriller Safe, takes up the role and will split her time…

Doctor Who writer and exec producer Russell T Davies is penning a dystopian family drama for BBC One, produced by Happy Valley firm Red Production Company. The British public broadcaster has ordered Years and Years from the pair, which will follow a busy family from Manchester with their lives converging on one…

Director and graphic artist Joann Sfar is embarking on his first English-language live-action drama with Monsters’ Shrink. Canal Plus has ordered the eight-part series that’s loosely based on Sfar’s book L'Eternel. Canal’s RED Production Company will work with Sfar on the project about Rebecka, a New York…

Michael C. Hall and Sherlock‘s Amanda Abbington are set to star in Safe, an eight-part drama for Netflix and Canal Plus. The thriller from exec producer Harlan Coben is written by Shameless‘ Danny Brocklehurst. Shooting begins today for a 2018 debut. Dexter alum Hall plays Tom, a pediatric surgeon who is raising his…