The BBC has ordered a raft of factual and arts programming, including three-part BBC Two docu-series Frida & Diego, an exploration of the personal and political life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her relationship with Diego Rivera.
The Rogan Films production will be directed by Louise Lockwood. Executive producers are James Rogan, Nancy Bornat and Mark Hedgecoe. BBC commissioner is Emma Cahusac.
Four-part series Black Art Matters will examine how African-American creativity has transformed popular culture. It is the first series commission for BBC Small Indie Fund company Milk And Honey Productions, whose previous work for the BBC includes The Trouble With Naipaul, Stacey Dooley Investigates Spycams and Sex Criminals. Executive producer is Lucy Pilkington and the series will be made in association with Afua Hirsch and her production company, Born In Me.
Meanwhile, the new slate also includes Union With David Olusoga, a five-part BBC Two docu-series about union and disunion in the UK.
The Rogan Films production will be directed by Louise Lockwood. Executive producers are James Rogan, Nancy Bornat and Mark Hedgecoe. BBC commissioner is Emma Cahusac.
Four-part series Black Art Matters will examine how African-American creativity has transformed popular culture. It is the first series commission for BBC Small Indie Fund company Milk And Honey Productions, whose previous work for the BBC includes The Trouble With Naipaul, Stacey Dooley Investigates Spycams and Sex Criminals. Executive producer is Lucy Pilkington and the series will be made in association with Afua Hirsch and her production company, Born In Me.
Meanwhile, the new slate also includes Union With David Olusoga, a five-part BBC Two docu-series about union and disunion in the UK.
- 8/9/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
National Theatre artist in residence Alexander Zeldin will write and direct.
National Theatre artist in residence Alexander Zeldin will write and direct a feature adaptation of stage play Love for BBC Two.
The project is a collaboration between BBC Films, BBC Arts, Arts Council England, Cuba Pictures and the National Theatre, and will air on BBC Two in late autumn as part of the BBC’s Performance Live strand.
Love starts its two-week shoot in London this week. The cast includes Nick Holder, Anna Calder-Marshall, Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, reprising the roles they originated on stage.
The play opened...
National Theatre artist in residence Alexander Zeldin will write and direct a feature adaptation of stage play Love for BBC Two.
The project is a collaboration between BBC Films, BBC Arts, Arts Council England, Cuba Pictures and the National Theatre, and will air on BBC Two in late autumn as part of the BBC’s Performance Live strand.
Love starts its two-week shoot in London this week. The cast includes Nick Holder, Anna Calder-Marshall, Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, reprising the roles they originated on stage.
The play opened...
- 7/10/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
David Schwimmer is exec producing a television adaptation of British stage play Love for the BBC. The Friends star is one of the team behind the feature-length film, which is being produced by McMafia producer Cuba Pictures.
Love, written and directed by National Theatre Artist in Residence Alexander Zeldin, tells the story of families brought together and placed in temporary accommodation in the run up to Christmas.
It follows Colin, a middle-aged man, played by Nick Holder, who starred in ABC’s Galavant and C4’s Coalition, and his elderly mother Barbara, played by Wuthering Heights star Anna Calder-Marshall, who are relocated from their previous housing, and a young couple – Dean and Emma – preparing to welcome a new child into their family. Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, who were in the original stage play, reprise their roles as Dean and Emma.
The play originally opened at the National Theatre in...
Love, written and directed by National Theatre Artist in Residence Alexander Zeldin, tells the story of families brought together and placed in temporary accommodation in the run up to Christmas.
It follows Colin, a middle-aged man, played by Nick Holder, who starred in ABC’s Galavant and C4’s Coalition, and his elderly mother Barbara, played by Wuthering Heights star Anna Calder-Marshall, who are relocated from their previous housing, and a young couple – Dean and Emma – preparing to welcome a new child into their family. Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, who were in the original stage play, reprise their roles as Dean and Emma.
The play originally opened at the National Theatre in...
- 7/10/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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