The BBC is adapting Marilyn Kaye‘s Gifted guide sequence for youths and shifting the story to Scotland.
The kids’s motion journey sequence will probably be reimagined as a 10-part drama sequence following a various group of younger Scottish teenagers who uncover they every have distinctive superpowers. Once they notice they’re being focused by a strong group generally known as the Bodkin, they have to be a part of forces to guard themselves and people they love.
Kaye’s six novels comply with a gaggle of American pre-teens. The BBC stated greater than 3,000 Scottish children have utilized to be within the present, which is being penned by The Worst Witch author Emma Reeves. It’s a world co-production between Glasgow-based producer Black Camel Photos and Paris-based French producer Media Valley. The present has been commissioned by CBBC in affiliation with NDR/ARD by way of One Gate Media in Germany, with extra help from Display Scotland.
BBC Kids’s has gone large on buzzy diversifications of late, making variations of Oliver Twist and The Well-known 5.
Sarah Muller, Senior Head of Commissioning 7+ BBC Kids’s and Schooling: “Gifted will deliver audiences prime quality action-filled adventures from the guide sequence, dropped at life in Scotland. We’re working with Display Scotland to characterize their vibrant inventive business with an thrilling younger Scottish solid and sensible expertise behind and in entrance of the digicam.”
Arabella Web page Croft, EP at Black Camel Photos, added: “Scottish children clearly have expertise they usually wish to act! We’re excited to provide this present for CBBC and convey these younger abilities and our stunning capital metropolis to a younger viewers globally.”
Gifted options on a slate for BBC Kids’s that additionally features a Gladiators spin-off titled Epic Pranks from Hungry Bear and MGM, and a behind-the-scenes doc sequence a few boarding college titled Stage Stars.
Patricia Hidalgo, Director BBC Kids’s and Schooling says: “We proceed to showcase homegrown dramas and sequence which purpose to offer our younger viewers an perception into the varied lives of youngsters, characters and settings from throughout the UK with distinctive tales to inform which can resonate with them and with their households.”
