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Trailer for “Innocent”

Trailer for "Innocent"
"Innocent," will make its U.S. debut Thursday, March 22nd. New episodes of the fast-paced thriller, starring Lee Ingleby, will stream weekly every Thursday until its conclusion April 12th. https://youtu.be/1P4ek4AvMa0 ...

Mark Bonnar wins Broadcasting Press Guild Award

Mark Bonnar wins Broadcasting Press Guild Award
Mark Bonnar has won the  Broadcasting Press Guild award for Best Actor for four television performances, including his role in Season Two of Unforgotten The Broadcasting Press Guild Awards recognise outstanding UK programmes and performances seen or heard in the preceding year. All but three of the 16 Awards are voted for by the membership. The 44th annual BPG awards were presented at an awards lunch held at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Friday March 16th 2018. On Twitter, Mark said: ‘Absolutely blown away to win BPG award for best actor! Thank you so much.’ ...

“Unforgotten 2” makes Best of 2017 Roundsups

"Unforgotten 2" makes Best of 2017 Roundsups
The second season of Unforgotten has been included in many of the end-of-year roundups  for the Best Television of 2017. The Guardian 50 best TV shows of 2017 ITV’s deeply empathic cold-case drama surpassed its startling debut with a tale of abuse survivors’ revenge that built to a brave, devastating last episode. Read more The Telegraph best TV shows of 2017 Sanjeev Bhaskar and Nicola Walker star in this crime drama following cold cases that are reopened when new evidence emerges. It returned for a second series this year, and showed itself to be more than just a standard police procedural. Radio Times Unforgotten series two followed four people (Sara, Colin, Marion and Tessa) who’d been sexually abused as children, with Nicola Walker and ...

ITV recommissions “Dark Heart”

ITV recommissions "Dark Heart"
ITV has commissioned drama label Silverprint Pictures to produce six-part drama series Dark Heart starring Tom Riley as DI Will Wagstaffe, a man haunted by the murder of his parents when he was 16 years old. Set in London, the series is written for ITV by acclaimed screenwriter Chris Lang whose work includes award-winning drama Unforgotten, Torn, Undeniable and A Mother’s Son. Dark Heart is inspired by characters created by novelist Adam Creed, who has written a series of books featuring Will Wagstaffe. The 6 x 60 series is the first commission for Kate Bartlett’s new drama label, Silverprint Pictures, formerly ITV Studios Drama London, who are the team responsible for ITV’s multi-award winning drama Vera starring Brenda Blethyn and ...

French romantic comedy series for Netflix

French romantic comedy series for Netflix
Rolling off “Marseille,” Netflix is launching its next French-language original series, an as-yet-untitled half-hour romantic dramedy set in modern-day Pari  based on an original idea by British writer Chris Lang, to be be directed by Noemie Saglio (“Connasse, princesse des coeurs”). Francois Florentiny’s Paris-based banner UnRATED is producing, with Anne Thomopoulos (“Versailles”), Florentiny and Lang exec producing. The show will start shooting on location across Paris early next year. It will mark Netflix’s second French-language series to go into production after “Marseille” which is now in its second season. Penned by Lang, along with Teisseire and Saglio, the eight-episode series follows a group of friends who embark on a misguided attempt to help their perpetually single girlfriend Elsa regain faith in ...

Sony to develop “Unforgotten” for US network ABC

Sony to develop "Unforgotten" for US network ABC
ABC has put in development crime drama Suspects (fka Unforgotten) based on the praised British series Unforgotten, from Chris Lang, creator of the original UK format, Josh Berman, Sally Haynes, Laura Mackie, BBC Worldwide Productions and Sony Pictures TV. Written by The Blacklist executive producer Carla Kettner, Suspects blends a cop drama procedural and a multi-generational soap with a compassionate, intelligent female detective at the center. Kettner executive produces with Berman and Chris King via Berman’s Osprey Productions, along with Haynes, Mackie and BBC Worldwide Productions’ Angie Stephenson and Emma Strain. Sony Pictures TV, where Berman and Kettner have been under overall deals, is the studio. The original Unforgotten debuted on iTV in 2015 and has aired for two seasons. Mackie and Haynes left ITV in 2013 ...