Two original pilots are on their way from BBC America, sci-fi Wired and paranormal crime show The Dead Beat, and this is what we know so far…
From Doctor Who, Sherlock and Being Human to erm, Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, BBC America is a Stateside showcase for the best of the Beeb’s original programming. About a week ago though, it was announced that the network was to expand its remit by developing two original shows with Misfits producers, Clerkenwell Films.
The first, Wired, comes from the pen of The Awakening, Afterlife and Ghostwatch writer Steven Volk, and is set in a present-day world where synthetic human robots known as “Syns” are the latest plaything of the wealthy.
Volk spoke to Variety about Wired (formerly titled Dolls Hospital) saying, “The pilot episode is, I think, the best work I’ve written for TV to date. It’s darkly satirical, with an ensemble of characters in a ‘precinct’. Very different from Afterlife, but I hope in its own way just as compelling. And certainly with a few more laughs!”
The second new commission, The Dead Beat, sounds more of a Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) sort of deal, centring on a reluctant partnership between two police officers, one living, one dead. The pilot comes from the pen of Being Human’s John Jackson, who’s behind this Sunday’s episode of the vamp/ghost/werewolf soap, Puppy Love.
More news on both pilots as soon as we have it.
