EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the again of her BAFTA nomination, Sheridan Smith is teaming with two Australian stars on an ITV-Stan thriller thriller from the producer behind Mr Bates vs the Post Office.
Smith will star in Two Birds reverse Stephen Peacocke (The Newsreader) and Judy Davis (Nitram).
Two Birds facilities on British Police Constable Izzie Cornwell (Smith), who arrives within the small fictional city of Dugdale having been not too long ago widowed and intent on a recent begin in Australia. Izzie is assigned to research a homicide alongside her new boss Matt (Peacocke). When the sufferer is revealed to be a part of a infamous native crime household, led by the formidable Mrs Baxter (Davis), the stakes intensify.
The present is written by Helen FitzGerald (The Cry) and directed by BAFTA nominee James Griffiths (The Ballad of Wallis Island).
Two Birds is the newest present bringing collectively UK broadcaster ITV and Australia’s Stan. The pair additionally made Rupert Murdoch drama The Hack, which was equally produced by Mr Bates vs the Post Office producer Patrick Spence and his Anonymous Content-backed outfit AC Chapter One. ITV Studios, in the meantime, is selling a chilly case drama for Stan starring Mia Wasikowska.
Smith, who has featured in lots of an ITV drama, was yesterday nominated on the BAFTA TV Awards for I Fought The Law, a present concerning the combat to repeal the infamous double jeopardy legislation. She will go up towards the likes of Erin Doherty (A Thousand Blows), Jodie Whittaker (Toxic Town) and Aimee Lou Wood (Film Club). Smith beforehand gained for 2013’s Mrs Biggs.
“I’m thrilled to be playing the irresistibly complex Izzie Cornwell who is in search of new beginnings in Australia,” mentioned Smith. “Helen FitzGerald has created a dream role for me, as Izzie, through no fault of her own, becomes embroiled in a web of secrets and lies.”
Megan Palinkas (Heartbreak High) will write an episode and Corrie Chen (Good Cop/Bad Cop) will direct three episodes. Griffiths, FitzGerald and Luke Speed additionally function government producers, alongside Andy Ryan and Donna Chang for Stan Australia. The sequence will government produced by Spence by AC Chapter One and produced by Martha Coleman (Scrublands: Silver) by Third Act Stories. Filming will start this Spring in Perth and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and would be the first to movie in Perth Film Studios. The sequence is being supported by Screenwest by way of the Government of Western Australia’s Production Attraction Incentive, designed to draw excessive profile, market pushed footloose display screen productions to Western Australia. Two Birds is produced in affiliation with and distributed internationally by ITV Studios.
