EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Bad Robot TV boss Ben Stephenson arrange his personal transatlantic indie greater than two years in the past and the transfer is starting to bear fruit.
The previous BBC drama controller’s Poison Pen Studios has landed ITV drama Adultery, we are able to reveal, which is being penned by BAFTA-winning Idiot Me As soon as scribe Danny Brocklehurst. Casting shall be unveiled quickly.
In Adultery, the viewers is instantly launched to Tom and his 15-year-old daughter Jess, who has discovered love with schoolmate Ollie, and the pair can’t take their arms off each other. When Tom meets Ollie’s mum Beth in essentially the most surprising of circumstances, the 2 households’ lives are doubtlessly turned the other way up eternally. The present “raises questions on class, grief and the consequences of social media,” in line with ITV.
Having labored on hits like Westworld, Stephenson left J.J. Abrams’ Dangerous Robotic in summer time 2022 and launched the ITV Studios-backed, London and L.A.-based Poison Pen a number of months later, signing up large identify UK drama execs such as Sky’s Preethi Mavahalli. After a interval of quiet, Adultery is Poison Pen’s debut fee. Stephenson is a former BBC drama controller whose credit on the company included Luther, Sherlock and Line of Responsibility. His identify has cropped up in TV trade circles in current weeks as an outside bet to develop into BBC content material chief as soon as Charlotte Moore departs to Sony.
Stephenson stated he’s “so joyful” to have the ability to announce Adultery, as he questioned whether or not there may be “anybody as in tune with the viewers” as Brocklehurst and ITV drama boss Polly Hill.
Brocklehurst is coming off the again of a robust 12 months throughout which Harlan Coben’s Idiot Me As soon as went gangbusters on Netflix. A second season of his BBC-Stan sequence Ten Pound Poms is launching quickly. His earlier ITV sequence was 2022’s Sheridan Smith-starrer No Return.
Hill added: “Danny’s sensible scripts can have an viewers hooked into this adulterous story from the beginning. At its coronary heart although it’s about love and I’m excited to have an addictive love story on ITV, and to be working with Danny and Ben and the workforce at Poison Pen Studios.”
Adultery was commissioned by Hill and shall be govt produced by Stephenson, Mavahalli, Luke Woellhaf and Brocklehurst. Filming begins in Manchester later this 12 months. ITV Studios is promoting all over the world.
