Pulse Films Options ‘Underbelly,’ Bestselling Book About Complexity of Modern Motherhood (Exclusive)
“Gangs of London” producer Pulse Films has secured the rights to Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson’s Sunday Times-bestselling novel “Underbelly.”
Released early in August, the book tells the story of two women, Lo and Dylan, who are living parallel lives while being worlds apart. Lo is a middle-class mother with perfectly polished Instagram posts, while Dylan holds down a zero-hours telemarketing job while trying to keep food on the table. When they meet at the school gates, they are catapulted into each other’s homes and lives — with devastating consequences.
The book deal was brokered for the authors by Luke Speed on behalf of Cathryn Summerhayes of the Curtis Brown Group and by Jamie Hall and Tim O’Shea for Pulse Films. Storylining has begun, with the novel being adapted for the screen by Farquharson and Whitehouse, who are married and write together under the latter’s name.
Whitehouse is the founder of Mother Pukka,...
Released early in August, the book tells the story of two women, Lo and Dylan, who are living parallel lives while being worlds apart. Lo is a middle-class mother with perfectly polished Instagram posts, while Dylan holds down a zero-hours telemarketing job while trying to keep food on the table. When they meet at the school gates, they are catapulted into each other’s homes and lives — with devastating consequences.
The book deal was brokered for the authors by Luke Speed on behalf of Cathryn Summerhayes of the Curtis Brown Group and by Jamie Hall and Tim O’Shea for Pulse Films. Storylining has begun, with the novel being adapted for the screen by Farquharson and Whitehouse, who are married and write together under the latter’s name.
Whitehouse is the founder of Mother Pukka,...
- 11/30/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Anna Friel, star of Netflix/ITV crime drama Marcella, is to front a television adaption of Karen Hamilton’s novel The Perfect Girlfriend.
The drama will be produced by Pulse Films, the Vice-owned company behind Sky/AMC drama Gangs of London, and co-produced by Friel’s new production company Wonder Well Productions.
Friel, who also starred in ABC’s Pushing Daisies, will play Juliette, an attractive, confident and driven woman who is training for her new career as a flight attendant.
The darkness in her past doesn’t matter, because she’s moved beyond all that, and she’s building a great new life for herself—one that will impress her ex-boyfriend, Nate, who left her in a foolish moment of commitment-phobia, one that he surely regrets now. But he’ll be so proud of her once he sees how much she’s grown. And he will see her.
The drama will be produced by Pulse Films, the Vice-owned company behind Sky/AMC drama Gangs of London, and co-produced by Friel’s new production company Wonder Well Productions.
Friel, who also starred in ABC’s Pushing Daisies, will play Juliette, an attractive, confident and driven woman who is training for her new career as a flight attendant.
The darkness in her past doesn’t matter, because she’s moved beyond all that, and she’s building a great new life for herself—one that will impress her ex-boyfriend, Nate, who left her in a foolish moment of commitment-phobia, one that he surely regrets now. But he’ll be so proud of her once he sees how much she’s grown. And he will see her.
- 2/18/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
ITV crime drama Marcella was always intended to be a trilogy, according to actor Anna Friel, but a return after season three is possible. Speaking to Hello Magazine ahead of the UK season launch last month, Friel said that “the end of the third season is very much left open. I guess it depends on how much the viewers here like it.”
Marcella season three was released on Netflix outside the UK in summer 2020, but ITV fans had to wait until January 2021 to find out what happened next to the troubled detective after she was recruited as an undercover officer at the close of season two. The new run of episodes is set against the backdrop of a Belfast crime family infiltrated by the detective in her new guise as ‘Keira Devlin’. Can Marcella bring down the powerful, drug-dealing, gun-importing, people-trafficking Maguires, or might she decide to join them?
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Marcella season three was released on Netflix outside the UK in summer 2020, but ITV fans had to wait until January 2021 to find out what happened next to the troubled detective after she was recruited as an undercover officer at the close of season two. The new run of episodes is set against the backdrop of a Belfast crime family infiltrated by the detective in her new guise as ‘Keira Devlin’. Can Marcella bring down the powerful, drug-dealing, gun-importing, people-trafficking Maguires, or might she decide to join them?
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- 2/4/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Netflix/ITV’s hit thriller “Marcella” is set for a French adaptation produced by Elephant and commissioned by TF1. The deal was made by Cineflix Rights which has exclusive worldwide rights to the new series.
Hans Rosenfeldt’s “Marcella” was produced by Buccaneer Media and stars Anna Friel who won an International Emmy Award for her role in the series. Season 3 of “Marcella” is currently available on Netflix and will premiere on ITV in the U.K. the fall.
“Rebecca,” the French adaptation of “Marcella,” will be directed by Didier Le Pêcheur (“Innocents”), and was co-written by Le Pêcheur and Delphine Labouret (“Innocents”). The eight-part series is being produced by Elephant (Gaëlle Cholet and Sandra Ouaiss), and begins shooting this month around Paris.
The paranoid thriller will be headlined by Anne Marivin (“Ce soir je vais tuer l’assassin de mon fils”) in the titular role. Six years after abandoning...
Hans Rosenfeldt’s “Marcella” was produced by Buccaneer Media and stars Anna Friel who won an International Emmy Award for her role in the series. Season 3 of “Marcella” is currently available on Netflix and will premiere on ITV in the U.K. the fall.
“Rebecca,” the French adaptation of “Marcella,” will be directed by Didier Le Pêcheur (“Innocents”), and was co-written by Le Pêcheur and Delphine Labouret (“Innocents”). The eight-part series is being produced by Elephant (Gaëlle Cholet and Sandra Ouaiss), and begins shooting this month around Paris.
The paranoid thriller will be headlined by Anne Marivin (“Ce soir je vais tuer l’assassin de mon fils”) in the titular role. Six years after abandoning...
- 7/27/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Have you been looking forward to summer weather all winter but now find yourself complaining about the sweltering heat and wishing you were indoors watching TV with the air-co blasting in your face? If so, Netflix has you covered with several great new series that they’ve added to their library in June.
First up we’ve got Marcella, a crime drama and mystery series whose third season was recently released. Written by Hans Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder, and starring actors like Anna Friel, Ray Panthaki and Jack Doolan, it tells the story of a female detective juggling work and personal life amid troubling times.
Up next is a British show called The Chase. Starring Bradley Walsh, Shaun Wallace and Mark Labbett among others, this game show has become increasingly popular with American audiences. Besides its charming hosts, the program boasts a unique setup, with a group of contestants entering...
First up we’ve got Marcella, a crime drama and mystery series whose third season was recently released. Written by Hans Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder, and starring actors like Anna Friel, Ray Panthaki and Jack Doolan, it tells the story of a female detective juggling work and personal life amid troubling times.
Up next is a British show called The Chase. Starring Bradley Walsh, Shaun Wallace and Mark Labbett among others, this game show has become increasingly popular with American audiences. Besides its charming hosts, the program boasts a unique setup, with a group of contestants entering...
- 6/22/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Trainspotting and Once Upon A Time star Robert Carlyle and The Crown’s Victoria Hamilton are to star in a British political drama for Sky. Catherine The Great producer New Pictures is making six-part series Cobra about what happens in the corridors of power during a time of national emergency. Pretty good timing given what’s going on with Brexit.
Carlyle stars as British Prime Minister Robert Sutherland, while Hamilton plays his Chief of Staff Anna Marshall. Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer plays as Fraser Walker, the Head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Killing Eve’s David Haig stars as Home Secretary Archie Glover-Morgan, Better Things’ Marsha Thomason stars as Francine Bridge MP and Broadchurch’s Lucy Cohu plays the Prime Minister’s wife Rachel Sutherland.
The series, which has begun production ahead of a fall launch, deals with an unfolding national emergency that threatens to engulf the country as the Cobra committee,...
Carlyle stars as British Prime Minister Robert Sutherland, while Hamilton plays his Chief of Staff Anna Marshall. Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer plays as Fraser Walker, the Head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Killing Eve’s David Haig stars as Home Secretary Archie Glover-Morgan, Better Things’ Marsha Thomason stars as Francine Bridge MP and Broadchurch’s Lucy Cohu plays the Prime Minister’s wife Rachel Sutherland.
The series, which has begun production ahead of a fall launch, deals with an unfolding national emergency that threatens to engulf the country as the Cobra committee,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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We chatted to the Swedish creator of The Bridge about series 4, the Scandi-noir label and UK crime drama Marcella...
As his first English-language series Marcella comes out on DVD, we spoke to Swedish screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt about the writing process, the differences between British and Swedish television production, and the future of his hugely acclaimed home-grown crime drama, The Bridge…
What did you find most appealing about Marcella when you first heard the pitch?
Well, I was pitched the idea by Nicola Larder (Marcella’s co-creator and executive producer). We met in Italy and were talking about The Bridge, and she actually pitched me an idea about this female detective being left by her husband and bringing back an old case. I really liked that because it sounded like something I could probably work with. The opportunity to work abroad was what really attracted me,...
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We chatted to the Swedish creator of The Bridge about series 4, the Scandi-noir label and UK crime drama Marcella...
As his first English-language series Marcella comes out on DVD, we spoke to Swedish screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt about the writing process, the differences between British and Swedish television production, and the future of his hugely acclaimed home-grown crime drama, The Bridge…
What did you find most appealing about Marcella when you first heard the pitch?
Well, I was pitched the idea by Nicola Larder (Marcella’s co-creator and executive producer). We met in Italy and were talking about The Bridge, and she actually pitched me an idea about this female detective being left by her husband and bringing back an old case. I really liked that because it sounded like something I could probably work with. The opportunity to work abroad was what really attracted me,...
- 6/15/2016
- Den of Geek
From Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of the original Swedish/Danish co-production The Bridge (Bron), Marcella is an eight-part crime drama that’s due to start shooting this month in London for ITV. Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder (Sky's development executive on The Tunnel and Dracula) created the modern-day series which will star Anna Friel in the title role. Produced by Tony Wood’s Buccaneer Media, this is Rosenfeldt’s first drama for the UK which will be injected with his…...
- 11/5/2015
- Deadline TV
ITV has confirmed it has ordered a new TV drama from the writer of The Bridge.
Hans Rosenfeldt will write Marcella - "an original, multi-stranded crime drama".
Marcella will be the first series Rosenfeldt has created exclusively for a UK audience, with the Scandi-drama tone transported to central London.
The series of eight one-hour episodes will "delve into the psychology of a single female Met detective (Marcella) working solo on a serial murder case with many potential suspects and victims".
Marcella will be seen returning to the Met after a 12-year break from a promising career to raise a family.
With a sudden split from her husband, and her daughter away at boarding school, Marcella decides to return to the force and is immediately assigned to a case following a spate of killings with echoes of ones she worked on years ago.
Marcella will be executive produced by Rosenfeldt, Nicola Larder...
Hans Rosenfeldt will write Marcella - "an original, multi-stranded crime drama".
Marcella will be the first series Rosenfeldt has created exclusively for a UK audience, with the Scandi-drama tone transported to central London.
The series of eight one-hour episodes will "delve into the psychology of a single female Met detective (Marcella) working solo on a serial murder case with many potential suspects and victims".
Marcella will be seen returning to the Met after a 12-year break from a promising career to raise a family.
With a sudden split from her husband, and her daughter away at boarding school, Marcella decides to return to the force and is immediately assigned to a case following a spate of killings with echoes of ones she worked on years ago.
Marcella will be executive produced by Rosenfeldt, Nicola Larder...
- 6/18/2015
- Digital Spy
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