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BBC Rekindles Relationship With ‘Cheaters’ As Clerkenwell Films Talks Writers Rooms & U.S. Co-Productions

'Cheaters', the BBC relationship drama, has landed a second season, as Clerkenwell Films bosses Petra Fried and Wim de Greef discuss the TV market.

Susan Wokoma ( CrazyHead, Year of the Rabbit, Enola Holmes), Joshua McGuire ( Anatomy of a Scandal, Lovesick), Jack Fox ( Riviera, Sanditon) and Callie Cooke ( Henpocalypse, Rules of the Game) will all return for another run of the relationship comedy-drama. The company is known for working with new writers such as Pete Jackson ( Somewhere Boy), Charlie Covell ( End of the F***ing World) and Richard Gadd, whose Netflix drama Baby Reindeer follows the story of a warped relationship involving a failing comedian and a stalker. With money in the UK drying up and streamers less likely to make full global buy-out deals, Clerkenwell has been working closely with execs at BBC Studios — whose Managing Director of Scripted Mark Linsey is now based in LA — to find more U.S. co-producers.

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