Netflix has announced seven new UK series to join its original content slate out of that country. All of these shows will be written and produced domestically.
Filmmaker Sam Mendes and his Neal Street Productions are producing the six-part half-hour comedy “The Red Zone” a comedy set in the football world but is not about football itself – more the “strange, obsessional world of bluffers, sharks and genuine talent”.
Comedian Rowan Atkinson comes up with a new creation in “Man vs. Bee,” ten ten-minute episode which sees him as a man who finds himself at war with a bee while housesitting a luxurious mansion. Who will win, and what irreparable damage will be done in the process?
Andy Serkis will produce the young adult supernatural drama “Half Bad” which hails from writer Joe Barton (“Giri/Haji,” “Humans”) and is based on Sally Green’s novel trilogy. The story follows the 16-year-old illegitimate son of the world’s most feared witch who spent his whole life being monitored for signs he may follow the same destructive path as his father.
“Cuckoo Song” is a six-part horror story about two warring sisters – one human, one monster – who must unite to reverse a supernatural pact gone horribly wrong. Sarah Dollard (“Bridgerton,” “Being Human”) is spearheading the show based on the novel by Frances Hardinge.
Richard Gadd is doing “Baby Reindeer,” the eight-episode half-hour sitcom based on his 2019 Edinburgh Fringe one-man stage-play about his warped relationship with his female stalker and the impact it has on him as he is forced to face a buried trauma.
“Attack the Block” writer/director Joe Cornish returns with the eight-episode supernatural action-adventure detective series “Lockwood & Co” based on Jonathan Stroud’s best-selling novels. The series follows a two teenage boy ghost-hunters and the recently arrived and supremely psychically gifted girl as they combat deadly spirits and rival adult agencies.
Sophie Petzal adapts Stuart Turton’s high-concept murder mystery novel “The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” into a seven-part series set on a sprawling country estate and asks the question – how do you solve a murder when every time you are getting close to the answer, you wake up in someone else’s body?
They join the likes of the third seasons of “Sex Education” and “After Life,” a second of “Top Boy,” and fifth of “The Crown” and more on the way. Netflix has shot close to 100 productions across the U.K. in the past two years.
Source: Netflix
