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Masterpiece and Paramount’s UK web 5 are returning to nan Scottish Highlands that entered British audiences astatine nan move of this millennium.
They are down a reimaging of Monarch of nan Glen, nan gentle BBC comedy-drama that ran betwixt 2000 and 2005, starring Alastair Mackenzie arsenic a young restaurateur trying to reconstruct his puerility home.
The caller type is made by nan original producer, Ecosse Films, and Masterpiece PBS successful relation pinch Northern Ireland Screen and Banijay Rights, which is distributing nan six-part bid internationally. Production will return spot successful Scotland and Northern Ireland later this year. Development assistance came from The National Lottery done Screen Scotland.
The reboot will travel high-flying London lawyer Isla Campbell, who finds herself backmost astatine her family’s crumbling Highland property for her estranged father’s ceremonial and discovers she has inherited a million-pound debt, a slope closing in, and a relative who refuses to fto spell of their ancestral home. Under nan aforesaid tile for nan first clip successful years, they person to find a measurement to prevention nan struggling property earlier clip runs out. No connection connected casting correct now.
Jeremy Brock (A Very Royal Scandal, The Last King of Scotland) has written and created nan series, alongside writer Stephen Greenhorn (Sunshine connected Leith, Dept. Q). Brock is executive shaper alongside Tom Vaughan (Doctor Foster, Victoria), who is besides director. Alex Boyd, Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are nan producers, pinch Rob Darnell and Adam Duncan nan exec producers for Ecosse and Susanne Simpson is nan aforesaid for Masterpiece.
Simpson, Head of Scripted Content astatine Masterpiece said: “I cognize nan warmth, joke and romance successful this caller type of Monarch of nan Glen is conscionable what our American assemblage looks for successful a Masterpiece series. I’m truthful delighted to bring Jeremy Brock’s fantabulous activity and nan beauty of nan Highlands to U.S. tv screens.”
“When I was offered nan chance to re-imagine Monarch of nan Glen, I leapt astatine it,” said Brock. “I’m hugely excited by nan opportunity to show a communicative of family life and uncovering your spot successful our hectic world – 1 that celebrates nan warmth, humour and eccentricities of a typical community, pinch some optimism and authenticity. Hope and joyousness are a rate successful short proviso correct now, and nan Highlands – 1 of nan astir magical places connected Earth – felt for illustration precisely nan correct location for them.”
