EXCLUSIVE: Finite Films & TV right now is on the Edinburgh Television Festival right now with a brand new six-part comedy sequence, Nuclear Children.
Adapted from the debut play of author Ezra England, the sequence is being co-developed with Platform Presents, which additionally co-produced the unique stage manufacturing.
Nuclear Children follows 18-year-old Isla Sparrow who, after the demise of her father in a submarine accident, hopes to flee her grieving household and flee to school. However, she fails her exams and finds herself trapped in her tiny, peculiar city hometown, decided to discover a approach out.
England’s play received the 2021 Platform Presents Playwriting Prize and ran on the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe. From 2024 to 2025, they have been a resident artist on the Roundhouse, and as an actor their credit embrace Star Wars: Andor, Extraordinary and Unforgotten.
The plan is now to buy the sequence to broadcasters and streamers on the town for the Edinburgh TV Festival or the Edinburgh Fringe, the place exhibits comparable to Baby Reindeer have been first recognized.
For Finite, Nuclear Children joins a slate comprising unique sequence and diversifications of performs, operas and literary texts. Platform Presents makes movie, theatre and tv, together with Theatrical Consequences, The Joy of Text and Good Grief.
Former ITV and Three Rivers Media exec Ben McGrath leads for the corporate Finite Films & TV. His EP crefits embrace Dead and Buried for BBC1 Northern Ireland and Virgin Media Television, in affiliation with All3Media International. He additionally recognized the IP for and govt story-produced an adaptation of Deon Meyer’s Trackers for HBO, ZDF and M-Net, and likewise co-created the British-Nordic crime thriller Reyna with Torfinnur Jákupsson (Trom).
Finite’s founder, Amy Gardner, has producing credit on the likes of And Then Come the Nightjars, La Bohème, Honeytrap, and My House, and labored on the stage productions of Nuclear Children and The Joy of Text. Her EP credit inckude Felipe Gálvez Haberle’s The Settlers, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s Dreamers, Konstantina Kotzamani’s Titanic Ocean and Ruthy
Pribar’s What is to Come.