EXCLUSIVE: UK community Channel 4 has boarded a criminal offense drama starring Katherine Kelly a couple of single mom who’s blackmailed into smuggling medication.
Filming on the six-part In Flight is underway, with Kelly (Mr Bates vs the Put up Workplace, The Lengthy Shadow) taking part in an air hostess who’s pressured to take determined measures after her son is arrested. Alongside Channel 4, Prosieben has acquired rights to Germany, SBS for Australia and TVNZ for New Zealand. Fremantle has dealing with worldwide distribution.
Mike Walden (Marcella, Whistable Pearl) and Adam Randall (Gradual Horses, iBoy) are there writers and Chris Baugh (Wreck, Tin Star) is the director. Buccaneer Media is producing.
Kelly’s character, Jo Conran, is a single mom whose son is serving a 15-year sentence in a Bulgarian jail for a homicide he swears to not have dedicated. When she approached by a gang who is aware of all about her scenario, she is blackmailed into smuggling and compelled right into a world of corrupt cops and employed killers to maintain her youngster alive.
Additionally forged as Stuart Martin as a key member of the cimrinal gang, Ashley Thomas as a customs officer at a significant London airport, and Bronagh Waugh, Harry Cadby, Corinna Brown and Ambreen Razia.
Set throughout areas together with London, Bangkok, Bulgaria and Istanbul, filming is going down in Belfast, Northern Eire, with funding help from Northern Eire Display screen.
Anna Burns, Tony Wooden and Richard Tulk-Hart are the exec producers for Buccaneer, with Rebecca Dundon and Simon Judd doing the identical for Fremantle alongside Walden, Randall and Baugh. Brendan Mullin is the producer and Gary Davy led casting.
“In Flight is our spin on the noir style, a excessive stakes, trendy, romantic thriller with iconic characters and nerve shredding motion,” mentioned Walden and Randall in an announcement. “Channel 4 is the right dwelling for our story and we’re so excited to be collaborating with such a superb workforce. Jo is a personality near our hearts. She is an strange lady going through extraordinary odds. We are able to’t look ahead to audiences to fulfill her.”
Polly Scates, who acquired the present for Channel 4, mentioned: “This distinctive crime drama will take our viewers on an exciting journey by terrifying worlds, however at the true coronary heart of this story is simply how far a father or mother will go to maintain their youngster secure.”
Channel 4 has more and more regarded to worldwide co-production fashions to fund its drama, with the likes of crime drama Persistence introduced into then community by an identical mannequin earlier this yr partially to offset rising prices of commissions.
“At a tough time for the trade In Flight reveals the ability of bringing quite a few companions collectively to make one thing occur, so a giant thanks to SBS, TVNZ, ProSieben and Fremantle for additionally seeing the potential in these scripts at such an early stage,” mentioned Buccaneer’s Tulk-Hart.
Dundon, Fremantle’s SVP of Scripted Content material, mentioned the sequence could be a “shocking, propulsive standout” as a “excessive stakes motion crime thriller that mixes the depth of worldwide drug smuggling with the emotional depth of a mom’s relentless quest to save lots of her son.”
