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BBC Developing Drama Series About Scotland’s Piper Alpha Disaster, The Catastrophic Oil Rig Tragedy That Killed 167 People
The BBC is developing a Piper Alpha disaster series about the tragic oil rig accident from STV Studios and James Wood.
STV Studios made a BAFTA-winning documentary about the disaster, Piper Alpha: Fire In The Night, around a decade ago, and we understand the company is taking extreme caution during the research process in order to respect the survivors and their relatives. Factual dramas are popular at present and recent BBC offerings include the likes of The Sixth Commandment and Jimmy Savile series The Reckoning, while the corporation is currently in the process of making a show about the Grenfell tower disaster penned by Peter Kosminsky. ITV, meanwhile, was responsible for the biggest factual drama of the year, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, while Netflix is making Toxic Town about the tragic Corby poisonings, written by Jack Thorne.
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