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BBC commissions Kudos Film & TV's Outcasts as new primetime drama series for BBC one
Following on from the innovative and era-defining hits Spooks, Hustle and Life on Mars, Kudos is moving into another new world. BBC One has commissioned a new eight part drama series, Outcasts, from Shine Groups Kudos Film & TV.
Created by Ben Richards (Spooks, The Fixer, Party Animals), Outcasts is set on a recently discovered planet and tells of the dilemmas, loves and lives of a group of people setting up a new world. This life-sustaining planet is now home to the surviving population from Earth. Here there is a chance to start again, to bring the lessons learnt from Earth and to put them into action on a new planet.
Set in 2040, Outcasts begins on the day the last known transporter from Earth arrives, prompting great excitement on the new planet: Who is on-board? Friends and loved ones? Important supplies and news from Earth? But also many questions: Will the new people bring the problems of Earth with them? Will the mistakes that destroyed Earth be repeated? Will the arrival of a new, would-be leader, rock the fragile and precarious equilibrium of our fresh, unified and courageous new world?
And most importantly of all, how do you create a new and a better world?
This commission marks the latest high-profile scripted drama Kudos has produced for the BBC over the past decade, including such popular, award-winning shows as Spooks, Hustle, Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.
With his usual wit and insight, Ben Richards has imagined a near-future, when humans are still led by their hearts even though their surroundings have changed. Action packed and full of surprises, we hope Outcasts will have everyone gripped right from the start, said Jane Featherstone, Kudos Creative Director and Executive Producer of Outcasts.
We have a long and highly successful working relationship with the BBC forged on such shows as Spooks, Hustle and Life on Mars and are really excited about continuing this on Outcasts, said Simon Crawford Collins, joint MD of Kudos and Executive Producer of Outcasts. Outcasts is as original, contemporary and compelling as our past shows but will take viewers into a new world, literally, as it explores humans drive for power, politics and sex in this new post-Earth era.
Ben Stephenson, Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning said: "The Kudos team have an amazing track record in delivering iconic new drama series and with Bens truly imaginative but emotional intuitive writing, Outcasts has the potential to be an intelligent and unmissable BBC Drama.
Outcasts is 8 x 60 mins series and will be produced by Richard Fell (Inspector Lynley, Blood & Oil, Fantabulosa) and directed by Bharat Nalluri (Tsunami, Spooks, Hustle, Life on Mars). Shooting starts in South Africa in April with casting to be confirmed. Executive Producers are Jane Featherstone, Simon Crawford-Collins and Faith Penhale from Kudos and Matthew Read for the BBC. Commissioned by Ben Stephenson, Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning and Jay Hunt, Controller, BBC One.
Added On Monday, January 18, 2010