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It’s set to be a busy year for BBC viewers, as the broadcaster has announced three brand new series for viewers to tune into which are currently filming.
A Tudor-based period drama, a dark comedy and a political thriller are all currently in the works, shooting scenes across the UK.
The writers of hit policing drama Blue Lights are behind D-Notice, a thriller set in the world of investigative journalism and deeply rooted in politics.
D-notices are used across the UK and come in the form of requests journalists not to publish or broadcast information for reasons of national security – teasing where the drama could draw focus.
The six episodes, which mark the third BBC project for writers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn after The Salisbury Poisonings and Blue Lights, have been teased to take a dive into ‘how truth and power speak to one another’.
Writers Declan and Adam are both former investigative journalists, who met working on the BBC’s Panorama, before moving into drama writing together.
It’s set to be a busy year for BBC viewers, as the broadcaster has announced THREE brand new series for viewers to tune into which are currently filming
The writers of hit policing drama Blue Lights are behind D-Notice, a thriller set in the world of investigative journalism and deeply rooted in politics
Elsewhere, a new six-part drama called Shy & Lola is also in the works for BBC One, produced by the BAFTA and Emmy winning Clerkenwell Films, who are behind the likes of Baby Reindeer and The Death Of Bunny Munro.
Written by Apple Tree Yard’s Amanda Coe, the dark comedy story follows two women who are forced to become allies when a murder entangles them.
They are thrown into the criminal underworld operating in a small coastal town in the North of England – and it soon transpires they have quite the talent for crime.
Building an operation that threatens to blow the bad guys out of the water, they have to decide whether to use their earnings towards a fresh start, or whether they should become the new bosses in town.
It will star The Night Manager’s Hayley Squires as Shy, and The Diary of a Teenage Girl star Bel Powley as Lola – with filming due to start in Hull and Leeds this spring.
Screenwriter Amanda said of the six-part series: ‘With such a rich and spiky central relationship at its core, Shy & Lola is a dream of a show to write, full of fun, action and emotion.
‘I can’t wait to see our hugely exciting cast and director bring it to life.’
Tudor period drama 1536 is also in the works – based on the play of the same name by Ava Pickett – for BBC One.
The six episodes, which mark the third BBC project for writers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn after The Salisbury Poisonings and Blue Lights, have been teased to take a dive into ‘how truth and power speak to one another’
a new six-part drama called Shy & Lola is also in the works for BBC One, produced by the BAFTA and Emmy winning Clerkenwell Films, who are behind the likes of Baby Reindeer
The eight episode series, written by How To Get To Heaven from Belfast and The Great writer Ava, will be set in the heart of Tudor England.
The story, which follows Anne Boleyn’s arrest, will ‘weave royal scandal with rural struggle’.
It centres around three young women, Anna, Mariella and Jane, in their rural Essex village and desperately waiting for their lives to start.
When news reaches them that King Henry VIII has had Anne Boleyn arrested, the three of them have no reason to suspect this will change their lives.
Attempting to navigate marriage, relationships, betrayals and births, they discover that being a woman in such volatile times is dangerous.
The BBC teased: ‘A darkly comic and terrifyingly relevant story about friendship, sisterhood and a changing world, 1536 is a series that explores how the actions of a man in power changes the fate of working class women on the edges of the country.
‘It asks if a King can murder his Queen, what does that mean for women elsewhere and how much have things really changed?’
Ava Pickett said: ‘1536 is something I am immensely proud of and I feel so lucky and privileged to have the chance to bring Anna, Jane and Mariella to a wider audience and to build out their lives even more.
‘In a world where every decision made in the corridors of power ricochets through all of our lives, this story feels more relevant than ever. I’m so grateful to Lindsay Salt for being such a champion of it from the start.’
Further details of all the new series will be announced in due course.