The BBC is adapting Marilyn Kaye‘s Gifted ebook collection for teenagers and shifting the story to Scotland.
The youngsters’s motion journey collection will probably be reimagined as a 10-part drama collection following a various group of younger Scottish teenagers who uncover they every have distinctive superpowers. After they notice they’re being focused by a strong group referred to as the Bodkin, they need to be a part of forces to guard themselves and people they love.
Kaye’s six novels comply with a gaggle of American pre-teens. The BBC mentioned greater than 3,000 Scottish children have utilized to be within the present, which is being penned by The Worst Witch author Emma Reeves. It’s a global co-production between Glasgow-based producer Black Camel Footage and Paris-based French producer Media Valley. The present has been commissioned by CBBC in affiliation with NDR/ARD by way of One Gate Media in Germany, with extra assist from Display screen Scotland.
BBC Kids’s has gone massive on buzzy diversifications of late, making variations of Oliver Twist and The Well-known 5.
Sarah Muller, Senior Head of Commissioning 7+ BBC Kids’s and Training: “Gifted will carry audiences top quality action-filled adventures from the ebook collection, delivered to life in Scotland. We’re working with Display screen Scotland to symbolize their vibrant artistic trade with an thrilling younger Scottish solid and sensible expertise behind and in entrance of the digital camera.”
Arabella Web page Croft, EP at Black Camel Footage, added: “Scottish youngsters clearly have expertise they usually wish to act! We’re excited to supply this present for CBBC and convey these younger abilities and our stunning capital metropolis to a younger viewers globally.”
Gifted options on a slate for BBC Kids’s that additionally features a Gladiators spin-off titled Epic Pranks from Hungry Bear and MGM, and a behind-the-scenes doc collection a few boarding college titled Stage Stars.
Patricia Hidalgo, Director BBC Kids’s and Training says: “We proceed to showcase homegrown dramas and collection which goal to offer our younger viewers an perception into the varied lives of kids, characters and settings from throughout the UK with distinctive tales to inform which is able to resonate with them and with their households.”
