Banijay Rights has set a new returning drama series titled “Runners” with writer John Preston and exec producer Ellie Wood of Clearwood Films, the team behind “Stonehouse” and “The Dig.”
“Runners” tells the story of the world’s first police force, the Bow Street Runners, who were formed in the 1740s in London, which at the time was facing a colossal crime wave.
The Chief Magistrate of London at the time, Heny Fielding (who also happened to be a celebrated novelist), decided to take on this criminal underworld by assembling a group of police.
“This extraordinary story will tell of how a group of just six police officers, none with any training or experience, set about imposing law and order on a completely lawless society and embarked on solving one of the strangest cases of its time – one with momentous political and social ramifications,” reads the logline.
Wood (“Bleak House...
“Runners” tells the story of the world’s first police force, the Bow Street Runners, who were formed in the 1740s in London, which at the time was facing a colossal crime wave.
The Chief Magistrate of London at the time, Heny Fielding (who also happened to be a celebrated novelist), decided to take on this criminal underworld by assembling a group of police.
“This extraordinary story will tell of how a group of just six police officers, none with any training or experience, set about imposing law and order on a completely lawless society and embarked on solving one of the strangest cases of its time – one with momentous political and social ramifications,” reads the logline.
Wood (“Bleak House...
- 9/7/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Written by K Perkins, Mellow Brown | Art by Fernando Dagnino | Published by Titan Comics
So, here we are. The final issue in the book that promised to show us the origins of the Blade Runner unit. It’s been quite the ride getting here. At first, I wasn’t entirely sure how the story, set in 2009, of LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux investigating a suicide would tie neatly into the events leading up to the original film a decade later. I shouldn’t have worried. Events led, as they always do with Tyrell Corporation, into murders, illegal operations, unwise Replicant tech, and a whole lot of death and destruction. Stuff we love of course. A good story needs a good villain after all. Last issue saw the sacrifice that would lead events down the road we now know happened, and Cal is looking like both the hero and victim.
Nia’s sacrifice,...
So, here we are. The final issue in the book that promised to show us the origins of the Blade Runner unit. It’s been quite the ride getting here. At first, I wasn’t entirely sure how the story, set in 2009, of LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux investigating a suicide would tie neatly into the events leading up to the original film a decade later. I shouldn’t have worried. Events led, as they always do with Tyrell Corporation, into murders, illegal operations, unwise Replicant tech, and a whole lot of death and destruction. Stuff we love of course. A good story needs a good villain after all. Last issue saw the sacrifice that would lead events down the road we now know happened, and Cal is looking like both the hero and victim.
Nia’s sacrifice,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
He has unparalleled creative freedom within the BBC. But, as Stephen Poliakoff's latest lavish drama reaches our screens, what does he make of his reputation for being a control freak?
'I'm quite sure," Stephen Poliakoff giggles, "there are people within the BBC who run down the corridors blocking their ears when they see me coming." His reputation certainly precedes him – a great galloping colossus of media folklore, variously casting the writer as a genius, control freak, force of nature or diva, sometimes all at the same time. Descriptions of his appearance err towards cartoonish caricature – dishevelled, wild-haired, fidgety, like a mad professor who has accidentally electrocuted himself – only adding to the mythology of a wild man of letters. But to everyone about to fall in love with his latest drama, Poliakoff may well soon be at real risk of becoming a national treasure.
Dancing on the Edge is set...
'I'm quite sure," Stephen Poliakoff giggles, "there are people within the BBC who run down the corridors blocking their ears when they see me coming." His reputation certainly precedes him – a great galloping colossus of media folklore, variously casting the writer as a genius, control freak, force of nature or diva, sometimes all at the same time. Descriptions of his appearance err towards cartoonish caricature – dishevelled, wild-haired, fidgety, like a mad professor who has accidentally electrocuted himself – only adding to the mythology of a wild man of letters. But to everyone about to fall in love with his latest drama, Poliakoff may well soon be at real risk of becoming a national treasure.
Dancing on the Edge is set...
- 1/28/2013
- by Decca Aitkenhead
- The Guardian - Film News
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