The BBC is adapting Marilyn Kaye‘s Gifted guide collection for teenagers and shifting the story to Scotland.
The kids’s motion journey collection can be reimagined as a 10-part drama collection following a various group of younger Scottish teenagers who uncover they every have distinctive superpowers. Once they notice they’re being focused by a strong group often called the Bodkin, they have to be a part of forces to guard themselves and people they love.
Kaye’s six novels comply with a bunch of American pre-teens. The BBC stated greater than 3,000 Scottish children have utilized to be within the present, which is being penned by The Worst Witch author Emma Reeves. It’s a global co-production between Glasgow-based producer Black Camel Photos and Paris-based French producer Media Valley. The present has been commissioned by CBBC in affiliation with NDR/ARD by way of One Gate Media in Germany, with further help from Display Scotland.
BBC Kids’s has gone large on buzzy diversifications of late, making variations of Oliver Twist and The Well-known 5.
Sarah Muller, Senior Head of Commissioning 7+ BBC Kids’s and Training: “Gifted will convey audiences top quality action-filled adventures from the guide collection, dropped at life in Scotland. We’re working with Display Scotland to signify their vibrant artistic trade with an thrilling younger Scottish forged and sensible expertise behind and in entrance of the digicam.”
Arabella Web page Croft, EP at Black Camel Photos, added: “Scottish youngsters clearly have expertise they usually wish to act! We’re excited to supply this present for CBBC and convey these younger skills and our stunning capital metropolis to a younger viewers globally.”
Gifted options on a slate for BBC Kids’s that additionally features a Gladiators spin-off titled Epic Pranks from Hungry Bear and MGM, and a behind-the-scenes doc collection a few boarding faculty titled Stage Stars.
Patricia Hidalgo, Director BBC Kids’s and Training says: “We proceed to showcase homegrown dramas and collection which intention to offer our younger viewers an perception into the varied lives of kids, characters and settings from throughout the UK with distinctive tales to inform which can resonate with them and with their households.”
