EXCLUSIVE: UK community Channel 4 has boarded a criminal offense drama starring Katherine Kelly a few single mom who’s blackmailed into smuggling medicine.
Filming on the six-part In Flight is underway, with Kelly (Mr Bates vs the Submit Workplace, The Lengthy Shadow) taking part in an air hostess who’s compelled to take determined measures after her son is arrested. Alongside Channel 4, Prosieben has acquired rights to Germany, SBS for Australia and TVNZ for New Zealand. Fremantle has dealing with worldwide distribution.
Mike Walden (Marcella, Whistable Pearl) and Adam Randall (Sluggish Horses, iBoy) are there writers and Chris Baugh (Wreck, Tin Star) is the director. Buccaneer Media is producing.
Kelly’s character, Jo Conran, is a single mom whose son is serving a 15-year sentence in a Bulgarian jail for a homicide he swears to not have dedicated. When she approached by a gang who is aware of all about her scenario, she is blackmailed into smuggling and compelled right into a world of corrupt cops and employed killers to maintain her baby alive.
Additionally forged as Stuart Martin as a key member of the cimrinal gang, Ashley Thomas as a customs officer at a significant London airport, and Bronagh Waugh, Harry Cadby, Corinna Brown and Ambreen Razia.
Set throughout places together with London, Bangkok, Bulgaria and Istanbul, filming is happening in Belfast, Northern Eire, with funding help from Northern Eire Display screen.
Anna Burns, Tony Wooden and Richard Tulk-Hart are the exec producers for Buccaneer, with Rebecca Dundon and Simon Judd doing the identical for Fremantle alongside Walden, Randall and Baugh. Brendan Mullin is the producer and Gary Davy led casting.
“In Flight is our spin on the noir style, a excessive stakes, fashionable, romantic thriller with iconic characters and nerve shredding motion,” mentioned Walden and Randall in an announcement. “Channel 4 is the right house for our story and we’re so excited to be collaborating with such a superb crew. Jo is a personality near our hearts. She is an bizarre girl dealing with extraordinary odds. We are able to’t watch for audiences to fulfill her.”
Polly Scates, who acquired the present for Channel 4, mentioned: “This distinctive crime drama will take our viewers on an exciting journey by means of terrifying worlds, however at the true coronary heart of this story is simply how far a guardian will go to maintain their baby secure.”
Channel 4 has more and more regarded to worldwide co-production fashions to fund its drama, with the likes of crime drama Patience introduced into then community by means of the same mannequin earlier this yr partially to offset rising prices of commissions.
“At a troublesome time for the business In Flight reveals the ability of bringing a variety of companions collectively to make one thing occur, so a giant thanks to SBS, TVNZ, ProSieben and Fremantle for additionally seeing the potential in these scripts at such an early stage,” mentioned Buccaneer’s Tulk-Hart.
Dundon, Fremantle’s SVP of Scripted Content material, mentioned the sequence can be a “shocking, propulsive standout” as a “excessive stakes motion crime thriller that mixes the depth of worldwide drug smuggling with the emotional depth of a mom’s relentless quest to avoid wasting her son.”
