“A24 HAS SIGNED UP Two of Britain’s Hottest TV Drama Producers As It Moves to Expand It International Small-Screen Output. The Hip Producer and Distributor on Wednesday Unveiled that It Was Adding Laura Lankest and Will Johnston to Its UK Team, Joing former BBC Executives WEERNER AND ROSE GROSE GROSE GROSE GRESE GARNESTITIETIETIVES Lankester and Johnston Will Exit”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Hip Producer and Distributor on Wednesday Unveiled that It Was Adding Laura Lankest and Will Johnston to Its UK Team, Joing former BBC Executives WEERNER AND ROSE GROSE GROSE GROSE GRESE GARNESTITIETIETIVES
Lankester and Johnston Will Exit Their Current Roles as Co-CO-COOS OF Lookout Point to Work with Wenger and Garnett to “Expand, Shape, And Grow The Studio’s Global In24.
The pair has worked with writer sally wainwright on some of the most acclaimed british Television of the Last Decade, Including Happy Valley, Gentleman Jackand Last Tango in Halifaxand Renegade nellas Well As on Andrew Davies’ Adptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy. They are currently in a reproduction, with bbc studios, on a new adaptation of Pride and prejudice For Netflix. Lankester and Johnston Will Continue with that Production and Lankester Will Also Oversee Britbox’s UpComit Limited Series Tommy and Tuppence For Lookout Point and BBC Studios.
They Join A24 as the Indie Studio Continues to Ramp Up Its UK Series Slate, Fueled by Deep-Pocked Capital Investment. (The Latest Round, A $ 250 Million Bump Led By A $ 75 Million Investment from Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, ValUED A24 AT $ 3.5 Billion.) UpcomING BRIT Series Projects Include Major Players For Channel 4, The Series Debut of How to have sex Director Molly Manning Walker; Michala Coel’s I may be destroy you follow-up, First Day On Earthfor the BBC and HBO; Miriam Battye’s The Husbans for Apple TV+; Leo Reich’s It Gets Worse for Channel 4; and Alice Birch’s Ministry of Time for the bbc. A24 is Also Collaboration on Adam Curtis’ BBC Series ShiftySeason 2 of The BBC/Showtime Series Dreaming Whilst Black and Kat Sadler’s Such Brave Girlsand the UpcomING LIVERPOOL FC Series Written by Adalescence Writer/Creator Jack Thorne.
“We Are Excited and Invigated to Join A24,” Lankester and Johnston Said in A Statement. “Their Commitment to Creative Excellence Is An Inspiration, and to Build with Piers and Rose Is A WONDERFUL NEW OPPORTUNITY. Grateful to the Colleagues and Friends we have been honored to work with, and to bbc Studios for tenes of Success and Partnership. ”
A24 Made ITS FIRST BIG MOVE INTO The UK TV Three Years Ago, Hiring Garnett, Then Director of BBC Film, and BBC Drama Head Wenger to Run the Company’s InternaLate.
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