First Pics Land Of Tom Hollander & Niamh Algar In Sky‘s ‘The Iris Affair‘
First pics have landed of Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar in Sky’s The Iris Affair from Neil Cross. The tense thriller follows enigmatic genius Iris Nixon (Algar), who cracks a string of complex online puzzles and is led to a piazza in Florence where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Hollander). He invites her to come and work for him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. The show comes from the creator of Luther and is one of Sky’s buzziest upcoming dramas. More pics can be viewed below. It is made by Sky Studios and Fremantle-owned Wildside. The Iris Affair will launch later this year.
BBC Adapting ‘Crookhaven’
The BBC is adapting J.J. Arcanjo’s Crookhaven as a kids TV series. The family adventure show is set at mysterious Crookhaven School where high achieving young crooks from across the world are secretly selected to hone their skills in disciplines such as deception, crimnastics, forgery and infiltration. It follows high-profile BBC kids adaptations of The Famous Five and Oliver. BBC Studios is producing. “I have always aimed to excite and inspire the young readers who pick up my books, but also the parents and grandparents who journey with them to my worlds and the TV series aligns perfectly with that,” said Arcanjo. “Together with BBC Children’s and Education we have created a fun family show filled with humour, heart and plenty of clever twists.”
Adam Curtis Unveils Next Project
Celebrated documentarian Adam Curtis’ latest BBC project will chart how extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance in Britain over four decades. Shifty aims to show how together these issues undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy – that it could create a shared idea of what was real. Four-time BAFTA-winner Curtis has previously made Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone and HyperNormalisation for the BBC. The films “tell the story of the rise of that unstable and confusing world from the 1980s to now,” said the BBC.
