New BBC Series Greenlit
Hot Flush
“Hot Flush,” the new show from BAFTA-winning “Happy Valley” creator Sally Wainwright, is one of several series greenlit by the BBC.
Virdee
The BBC has commissioned also “Virdee,” a six-part detective series based on A.A. Dhand’s bestselling crime novels and starring Sacha Dhawan (“Doctor Who”), from newly formed production company Magical Society, headed up by Paul Trijbits (“Jane Eyre”).
Untitled Nicole Lecky Drama
Following the success of the BAFTA-winning “Mood,” Nicole Lecky has written her second drama for the BBC. The six-part untitled series from Firebird Pictures follows Lorna, a self-made and successful Black businesswoman from South London who has worked hard to be where she is, and best friend Juliet, a white woman born into the privileged gated community they both call home.
The Jetty
Jenna Coleman (“The Serpent”) stars as rookie detective Ember Manning in four-part series “The Jetty,” a thriller from writer Cat Jones (“Harlots”) and producers Firebird Pictures. In the series, a fire tears through a holiday home in a scenic Lancashire lake town. Detective Manning must work out how it connects to a podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit triangle between a man in his twenties and two underage girls.
Black Ops
In addition, hit comedy thriller “Black Ops” has been recommissioned for a second six-part season. The show is produced by BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe and created by BAFTA- winning actor and writer Gbemisola Ikumelo (“Famalam”), BAFTA-winning actor and producer Akemnji Ndifornyen (“Famalam”) and writing duo Joe Tucker and Lloyd Woolf (“Click and Collect”).