Tuesday round-up: Latest news, deals & hires

BBC’s drama development chief lands at Clerkenwell

BBC Studios-owned Clerkenwell Films has hired the head of drama development at sibling broadcaster the BBC, Broadcast can reveal.

Sami El-Hadi becomes an executive producer at the prodco having spent the past two years at the corporation, working closely with drama director Lindsay Salt on greenlight decisions, and exec producing shows including Left Bank Pictures’ This City Is Ours and Dear England.

Prior to joining the BBC, El-Hadi worked at The Forge as a development executive and Working Title as a script editor, with credits including Channel 4 comedy We Are Lady Parts and BBC1 comedy-drama Everything I Know About Love.

Before that he worked at Channel 4 as part of the drama development team. Read more

Your Honor lands in Greece

The 13th local remake of drama Your Honor has been confirmed after Yes Studios confirmed a remake deal in Greece.

J K Productions/Kapa Studios has licensed the format in a deal that will see the series airing on Antenna in the 2025-2026 season.

Greece becomes the 13th country to produce a localised adaptation of Your Honor – and the fourth to be announced this year, following earlier deals concluded in Hong Kong, Ukraine and Poland.

The show, originally titled Kvodo, has also been remade in the US, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Turkey, Russia, and India. Kvodo was created by Ron Ninio and Shlomo Mashiach and produced by yes TV and Koda Communications.

Unscripted flurry unveiled by Netflix in Asia

Netflix is preparing to launch a raft of unscripted series out of Korea, including 10-part mystery role-playing series Crime Scene Zero and reality show Three Idiots in Kenya.

The latter is from Grandpas Over Flowers producer Na Yeong-seok, who is also attached on Ready or Not: Texas, which tracks Lee Seo-jin’s travels across the giant US state.

Culinary Class Wars, a global hit for the company, is also returning for a second season, while Single’s Inferno is moving into its fifth run.

The streamer has been experimenting with uscripted in Asia over recent years, with Physical: Asia among a trio of regional remakes of the format in the works.

UK’s C4 preps comedian drama

Channel 4 is behind a multi-part thriller from David Baddiel, Broadcast has learned.

Hunting Alice Bell is comedian Baddiel’s first television drama and is a fictional concept about secret and mistaken identities, and the way that social media turbocharges rage, rumour and disinformation in our modern world.

The series has been pre-bought by Channel 4, with filming having taken place in County Wicklow, Ireland, and counts Alex Roach and Rudi Dharmalingam among its cast.

Hunting Alice Bell hails from Baddiel and his sometime writing partner Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian’s film critic, and has been in the works for more than a decade. Read more

ITVS’s The Garden lands Apocalypse at C4 

Channel 4 has confirmed the commission of post-apocalyptic survival competition format Apocalypse, from The Garden.

Broadcast revealed in May the PSB had ordered a large-scale series from the ITV Studios indie, then under the title of Survive the City.

The 8 x 60-minute series will see a group of ordinary people challenged with navigating an abandoned town that has been ravaged by an apocalyptic event. Over 28 days, they will have to survive without running water, heat, or electricity, scavenging for food and supplies, while repurposing anything they can find along the way, as long as they have the skills or wherewithal to do so. Read more