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BritBox Boards BBC’s ‘The Other Bennet Sister’ As Exec Jane Tranter Says “Creative Solutions” Required To Overcome U.S. Co-Pro Slump
BritBox has boarded the BBC's 'The Other Bennet Sister' from Janice Hadlow as EP Jane Tranter talks Marisa Abela and co-pros.
With casting close to being unveiled, the show that is set to roll cameras shortly tells the story of Mary Bennet – the seemingly unremarkable and overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Amid the co-pro crisis that has hit the British TV drama industry this year, BBC Studios-owned BritBox has become something of a kingmaker in terms of getting projects over the line and multiple sources have pointed to its crucial place in the market. Tranter has been one of the leading British industry figures arguing for government help amid the TV drama crisis and she told us “creative solutions” around financing and co-pros are now vital to overcoming the problem at least in the short term.
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