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‘Scoop’ Producer Developing “Ambitious, Contemporary” Returning TV Series Starring Sarah Lancashire


'Scoop' producer Lighthouse is developing a Sarah Lancashire TV Series with Lancashire's Via Pictures.

Lighthouse has been busy looking to the future while producing Scoop and has also optioned the rights to Killjoy by Jo Cheetham, a non-fiction book telling the uplifting true story of how a group of unlikely everyday campaigners fought to have The Sun stop publishing pictures of topless women on page three. Lighthouse co-founder Hilary Salmon said Killjoy “fits in with Scoop quite nicely as a body of work,” while also having shades of ITV’s smash campaigning drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which has seen a renewed focus placed on local British stories. Starring Gillian Anderson, Billie Piper and Rufus Sewell, Scoop was the result of many months of research led by writer Peter Moffat and is adapted from three chapters of a book penned by Newsnight producer Sam McAlister.

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