Sobhraj (nicknamed 'The Serpent' and 'The Bikini Killer') was captured and put on trial in 1976 – after spending years on the run as the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976. The reigning Strictly Come Dancing champ will appear in the new series early this year. Can’t. Sir Lenny Henry is among the executive producers and the script has been written by Shola Amoo. Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish is writing and directing this Netflix adaptation of Jonathan Stroud’s supernatural adventure series about a ghost-hunting detective agency run by two teenage boys and a psychic girl. The six-part drama is based on Ben Macintyre’s SAS: Rogue Heroes book, which charts the creation of the famed Special Forces unit. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Susan Lynch, Michael Smiley, Ian McElhinney and Lisa Dwan are among the cast. Swansea City were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Birmingham City in the 3rd round.. Filming wrapped in August 2020 and there’s no UK broadcaster confirmed at present. Jack Thorne (pictured), the busiest screenwriter in the UK is returning to BBC One fresh from His Dark Materials series two with a new original four-part drama partly inspired by the real-life Charlie Gard case. Or is she being used? Filming began in November on four-part BBC One thriller Ridley Road, adapted from Jo Bloom’s 2014 novel of the same name. The Tunnel’s writer Ben Richards has teamed up with World Productions (the folks behind Bodyguard, pictured, and Line of Duty) on six-part series Showtrial. The Robert Downey Jr version. It’s the musical story of a would-be singer and rapper thrown out of home who moves in with a young woman who inducts her into the life of social media influencing and sex work. Giri/Haji creator Joe Barton is writing the series, with Andy Serkis among the producers. It’s set in London and was only announced in December 2020, so don’t expect to see it arrive on the streaming service for a little while yet. Port raped and murdered four men between 2014 and 2015, using Grindr to attract his victims. Coming to Sky One and NOW TV in 2021, Intergalactic is an original, British space-set drama about a galactic pilot who’s falsely imprisoned, then breaks free with a gang of other high-security female prisoners. From Alice Seabright, director of Netflix’s Sex Education (pictured above) comes six-part BBC One series Chloe. It was due to film in Bristol and Belgium in winter 2020 and will be coming to Channel 4. Sports writers Barney Ronay and Jonathan Liew are behind this six-part half-hour comedy “about football, but also not about football,” which is coming to Netflix in 2021. Jeff Pope, who previously penned The Moorside and Little Boy Blue, is the writer, with Neil McKay directing. It’s the story of Becky, who becomes so obsessed with the death of an estranged friend that she takes on a false identity to find out the true story. It’s the story of a young woman who seems unremarkable on the surface and works as an editorial assistant in a British seaside town. The BBC is preparing a feature-length adaptation of Kit de Waal’s novel My Name is Leon, the 1980s-set story of a nine-year-old biracial boy forced to cope with his mother’s breakdown. The two women become locked in a dark struggle of influence and manipulation. Due to film in 2021, The Baby is a darkly comic horror on its way to Sky Atlantic. This four-part Channel 4 drama, based on real events, will star The Virtues and Raised by Wolves’ Niamh Algar as an undercover police officer used in a honeytrap search for a killer in the 1990s. It’s being made by Bodyguard and Line of Duty‘s World Productions. Another BBC drama commission based on a book series, The Three, “an international thriller with a supernatural twist”, was announced in late 2017 but there’s been no news since then. This two-part BBC drama stars Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton (pictured) and is written by Moorside’s Neil McKay. Playwright Bash Doran (Traitors) has adapted the novel and filming is due to start in spring 2021. Steven Zaillian (The Night Of, Schindler’s List) will write and direct. It’s the story of two sisters – one human and one a monster – at war with each other, who have to reunite to reverse a supernatural pact gone wrong. Red Rose will be an eight-part series about the relationship between teenagers and their online lives. Written by Sally Wainwright, the BBC drama is based on the extraordinary life of the 'first modern lesbian' Anne Lister, played by Suranne Jones. Coming to ITV, it’s a four-part thriller about two grown-up sisters who become entangled in a tense mystery when their children are involved in the disappearance of a 10-year-old local boy. A BBC One-Amazon Studios co-production, it follows seven strangers forced together to complete a Community Payback sentence in Bristol. Filming was due to take place in Wales in late 2018, but there’s been no news about this one since so it’s a bit of a question mark. Keith Allen plays John Cooper, the man in Wilkins’ sights. Written by My Mad Fat Diary‘s Tom Bidwell, this version focuses on the Baker Street gang of teens used as a resource by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Great Detective, and comes with what’s promised to be a horrifying supernatural twist. Directed by Johnny Campbell (of In The Flesh and Dracula fame) and written by Esio Trot’s Paul Mayhew Archer, this one-off comedy-drama about two people with Parkinson’s disease was announced in late 2019 and will be coming to BBC One. Written by Vanity Fair‘s Gwyneth Hughes, who travelled to Northern Ireland to meet the families who inspired the drama, When it Happens to You is produced by the makers of hard-hitting Three Girls (pictured) and will explore the experience of families and loved ones whose lives have been affected by the law in Northern Ireland. It’s adapted from the Zoran Drvenkar novel about a woman on the run across Europe after committing a deadly crime, pursued by a dangerous gangster and a serial killer known only as The Traveller, and is written by The Capture (pictured above) screenwriter Ben Chanan. It’s the story of a disgraced ex-army surgeon who joins a whaling expedition and finds himself “on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath” and in a struggle to survive. The thriller, from new writer Chris Brandon, will revolve around a cold case that holds personal significance for Nesbitt’s detective, and follows his hunt for an assassin. The modern version. 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