Green light for BBC fairytale dramas
The BBC has confirmed it has commissioned a new drama anthology, Fairy Tales, following on from its Shakespeare Re-Told and Canterbury Tales season.
As The Stage exclusively revealed earlier this year the programmes will be contemporary adaptations of classic stories and will be made by Hat Trick and BBC Northern Ireland.
Originally Fairy Tales was planned to be a run of six hour-long shows but this has now been changed to four. Cutting It’s Debbie Horsfield will adapt The Emperor’s New Clothes, Outlaws writer Steve Coombes will rework Billy Goat Gruff and The League of Gentleman’s Jeremy Dyson will pen a modern version of Cinderella. One further writer and story will be announced at a later date.
Patrick Spence, BBC Northern Ireland’s head of drama, said: “We’re in seventh heaven with this commission. Four great writers bringing four great stories to life in a thoroughly modern way. But best of all, we’re going to shoot them all in Northern Ireland, and show what an utterly beautiful country it is.”
Casting and filming will commence in summer 2007 and Fairy Tales will transmit next autumn.
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- Entry for Debbie Horsfield in the IMDB
- Entry for Steve Coombes in the IMDB
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- BBC Northern Ireland
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