We’re listening to Channel 4 has commissioned Looking Alice Bell, a six-part drama collection from The Sport producer Clapperboard Studios starring the likes of Alexandra Roach.
Written by comic and broadcaster David Baddiel, Peter Bradshaw, Polly Buckle (A Discovery of Witches) and Kate Verghese (Business), we perceive the present has been filming in County Wicklow, Eire. Forged consists of Roach and Rudi Dharmalingam. The present is known to focus on secret and mistaken identities, and the way in which that social media turbocharges rage, hearsay and disinformation in right this moment’s world.
Roach is thought for roles in Channel 4 exhibits Utopia and No Offence, and is about to play the title position in upcoming Prime Video drama Lazarus, which comes from Harlan Coben and Danny Brocklehurst. She additionally starred in 2024 BBC drama Nightsleeper, and has credit for exhibits equivalent to Inside No. 9, Killing Eve and Black Mirror.
Dharmalingam, a theater and display screen actor, appeared in BBC drama The Break up between 2018 and 2022 and Sky drama The Lazarus Challenge. Credit embody Strike Again: Revolution, Tin Star and The Cleaner. He’s set to look in Robert Schwentke’s upcoming movie Management and Paramount+ Australia drama collection Taking part in Gracie Darling.
London-based Clapperboard, led by Mike Benson, is thought for making cost-effective dramas equivalent to The Ex-Spouse, The Serial Killer’s Spouse and The Sport (fka Catch You Later), the latter of which launched on 5 within the UK earlier this yr.
As for Channel 4, the fee comes after the latest order of Maud, which can star Glenn Shut and has Sony Footage Tv hooked up. Because the Edinburgh TV Pageant acquired underway final month, the broadcaster additionally gave the greenlight to a Steven Moffat drama about life inside 10 Downing Road and a Canal+ co-production, Military of Shadows, from The Day of the Jackal creator Ronan Bennett.
Channel 4 and Clapperboard declined to remark.
