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Becoming Elizabeth creator Anya Reiss is penning a BBC play that shows what happens erstwhile a personage ineligible conflict spirals retired of control.
In Reputation, a formidable lawyer who has built her profession defending free look gets pulled into nan lawsuit of nan decade representing world popular prima Davina Knight.
Knight has released a provocative caller opus accusing her ex-husband, Billy, of abusive behaviour and he retaliates successful kind, pinch their backstage breakdown erupting into a very nationalist libel battle. PR machines are deployed, laws are bent and societal media platforms go judge, assemblage and battleground.
The show brings to mind immoderate headline-grabbing news stories of caller months including nan very nationalist Lively-Baldoni spat and Lily Allen’s medium trashing ex-husband David Harbour.
Reiss is nan creator of deed Starz play play Becoming Elizazbeth and connected Reputation she is re-teaming pinch that show’s shaper The Forge.
Reiss said: “When I recovered retired London was nan world superior of precocious stakes libel cases – wherever nan rich, powerful and celebrated travel to conflict successful nationalist for their reputations – I was in. I’ve loved penning this world and now I’m excited to get it disconnected nan page and onto nan screen.”
Reputation (6×60) was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama. Alex Kazamia (Generation Z) will nutrient and BAFTA and RTS grant victor Mahalia Belo (The End We Start From, The Long Song) will direct. Executive producers are George Ormond, Jade Taylor (Just Act Normal), Reiss and Belo. Alongside Reiss, different writers connected nan bid are Shyam Popat and Karla Crome. Reputation will beryllium distributed internationally by Banijay Rights.
