STV Productions is in the mix for two BAFTA TV Awards on Friday night, when double Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson competes in the Best Actress category for dementia drama Elizabeth Is Missing and Edin…
vies for Best Mini-Series. For Sarah Brown, the Scottish producer’s creative director of drama, it represents the culmination of six years of work.are the first productions we have made since I joined in 2014. As you know, drama takes a long time to come to fruition,” she says ahead of Friday’s BAFTA ceremony, which will take place online because of the coronavirus pandemic. “was supposed to go out in 2018, but for various reasons, it didn’t go out until April 2019.
“Audiences are really hungry to be taken to places they don’t know. When you show, say the Edinburgh High Court in, it’s not a court system you see very much, but because of that it feels fresh and lends a lovely distinctiveness to the show. It’s possible to be a nations and regions indie and still be operating at the highest level.”
Brown adds that this thread of authorship is echoed in other projects on STV Productions’ development slate.scribe Andrea Gibb is adapting two books: Damian Barr’s, a memoir on growing up as a gay man in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, and sex industry mystery novelis the furthest along of the projects.
STV Productions did not have anything shooting when the pandemic hit in March, so has used recent months to focus on development with a view to getting back into production in 2021. “I’m glad we didn’t have to shut down. We are really driving forward our development. It’s been quite a creative time and it’s allowed us to focus,” Brown says, adding that landing a returning series is a big priority.
producer in January, while she would not rule out a return for ITV’s classic Scottish detective drama. “It still sells around the world. If we were ever to do it, it would have to be creatively interesting. We talk about it often, but there’s nothing imminent. You’d have to feel there was a new audience to bring to it — you can’t operate on the old audience alone,” she continues.will convert into a U.S. sale for the show. It followsfinding a home in North America through BritBox.
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