Clerkenwell Movies & Envision Leisure Crew For Drama Sequence – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: The Finish of the F***ing World producer Clerkenwell Movies and Envision Leisure are co-creating a six-part drama sequence a couple of working-class teenage lady despatched to an elite ending faculty.

Swans is now in improvement as female-led present set within the so-called ‘Swinging ’60s.’ It should embody “a wealthy seam of humour, scandals and singular characters, pertaining to social themes of sophistication and ladies’s rights” and “a solid of worldwide characters” that characterize the variety of British life within the Nineteen Sixties, in line with the producers.

The present is from rising author Amy Mason, and follows 19-year-old working-class east London lady Ally, who joins a complicated ending faculty when her avenue dealer dad wins the soccer swimming pools.

The story was impressed by the actual life experiences of Mason’s mom and aunt, who each attended a ending faculty simply as society was altering for girls. It marks Mason’s first TV screenwriting undertaking. She is a part of Channel 4’s TV writers’ scheme and has written for The Information Quiz, The Now Present and Dave sequence Hypothetical.

Thus far, Mason has labored as a theater maker (The Islanders, Mass, Hollering Girl Creek) and novelist (The Different Ida) and humorist, during which capability she was Humorous Girls awards finalist 2018. She has written and carried out two monologues for BBC Radio 4 and has a number of TV reveals in improvement.

Envision, which is a London-based international content material creator behind reveals corresponding to Nippon TV co-pro Linked: The Homebound Detective, first picked up the undertaking, with its Chief Content material Officer David Barron then taking it to BBC Studios-owned Clerkenwell. Barron, whose credit embody the Harry Potter movies and the Emma Mackie-starrer Emily, joined Envision together with former HBO Europe boss Linda Jensen in 2021, as we revealed on the time.

David Barron, Chief Content material Officer at Envison, stated: “I’m delighted to be working with Amy and Clerkenwell Movies to develop Swans. That is an thrilling alternative to discover an interesting interval in historical past and look at class and gender norms by means of an surprising prism; and replicate on how issues have progressed since then.”

Petra Fried, Joint Managing Director at Clerkenwell Movies, added: “We had been so excited when David and Envision introduced us Swans – Amy has created a world stuffed with superb tales that current an interesting and enjoyable have a look at how a lot life was altering for younger ladies within the Nineteen Sixties. We predict audiences will love this world and all the characters in it.”

Clerkenwell is thought for British reveals corresponding to Misfits, Someplace Boy and The Finish of the F***ing World. It’s at the moment engaged on sequence corresponding to Truelove, a darkly comedian Channel 4 drama starring Julie Walters and Clarke Peters.