2 weeks ago
Freddie Highmore and David Shore are getting backmost into business together.
The Good Doctor brace are attached to I’m Not Here to Hurt You, a play bid co-commission for Canadian streamer Crave and Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Blink49 Studios is producing pinch SPT nan supplier successful nan U.S. and Canada.
Shore and Highmore are nan co-creators, pinch nan second successful nan starring role. The bid follows an upstanding family man who spirals into a life of crime aft sidesplitting personification successful a bicycle accident, driven by nan noble but futile extremity of ne'er hurting anyone ever again. The show is inspired by nan existent communicative of nan man who became known arsenic ‘Ireland’s astir polite slope robber,’ and The Irish Independent podcast of nan aforesaid name.
“We weren’t rather done pinch each different aft all,” said Shore and Highmore successful a statement. “We’re thrilled to beryllium collaborating again, excited to return to Canada alongside our partners astatine Bell and Blink49 Studios, and grateful for Sony’s continued support. And now we person to get to work.”
The brace had teamed for 7 seasons of ABC aesculapian The Good Doctor, successful which Highmore played a autistic surgical resident pinch genius-level abilities.
“This caller bid marks an breathtaking infinitesimal for Crave arsenic we proceed to build our portfolio of compelling, premium original contented pinch world appeal,” said Justin Stockman, VP, Global Content, Bell Media. “Freddie’s expertise to embody analyzable characters is 2nd to none, and we’re delighted to collaborate pinch celebrated Canadian creative, David Shore, connected our first-ever task pinch Sony Pictures Television.”
“David and Freddie person an bonzer imaginative business built connected trust, collaboration, and a shared passion for powerful storytelling,” added Lauren Stein, EVP, Head of Creative, Sony Pictures Television. “They person a unsocial expertise to create richly layered characters who are imperfect, complicated, and profoundly relatable, nan benignant of characters audiences genuinely attraction about. We couldn’t beryllium much excited to reunite pinch them for I’m Not Here to Hurt You and are grateful to our partners astatine Bell Media, Crave, and Blink49 Studios.”
“David Shore and Freddie Highmore person created a genuinely compelling and emotionally analyzable bid pinch tremendous world potential,” said John Morayniss, CEO, Blink49 Studios. “We’re excited to collaborate pinch Bell Media and Sony Pictures Television on I’m Not Here to Hurt You to bring this exceptional communicative to audiences astir nan world.”
The show is being added to SPT’s LA Screenings position today, wherever clients will get an exclusive preview of nan series. Highmore is besides attached to different caller SPT show connected nan slate, Chocolate Wars, which was officially unveiled astatine Britbox and UKTV this week.
I’m Not Here to Hurt You comes from Shore and Highmore, who besides service arsenic non-writing executive producers alongside Claire Londy for nan latter’s Alfresco Pictures and Erin Gunn for nan former’s ShoreZ.
For Crave proprietor Bell, which was nan commissioner of Heated Rivalry, Kelsey-Ann Maria is Production Executive; Adam Feigen is Development Executive; Sarah Fowlie is Head of Production, Original Programming; Rachel Goldstein-Couto is Head of Development, Original Programming; Carlyn Klebuc is General Manager, Original Programming; and Stockman is Vice President, Global Content.
For Blink49 Studios, Pancho Mansfield is President, Global Scripted Television; Carolyn Newman is Executive Vice President, Global Scripted Television; Tashi Bieler is Senior Vice President, Head of Production; Yogita Puri is Executive Vice President, Head of Business Affairs; and Kate Sangster-Poole is Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs.
Highmore is represented by Artist’s Rights Group, Creative Artists Agency and Toczek Suddleson and is presently nether a first look woody astatine SPT done his Alfresco banner. Shore is represented by Chris Silbermann astatine CAA, Larry Shuman astatine nan The Shuman Company and Bill Sobel.
