Red Planet Pictures Options TV Rights To ‘Our House’
Red Planet Pictures, the indie behind the recently renewed BBC drama Death In Paradise, has optioned the TV rights to Our House, the best-selling novel by Louise Candlish that was just shortlisted for the Book of the Year (Crime & Thriller) at the British Book Awards. Our House tells the story of Fi Lawson, who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth. 
BBC One has handed out a two season renewal to their long-running drama series Death In Paradise. With the pick up, which comes just as the show's eighth season wrapped its run, the Caribbean set crime drama will be back for a ninth and tenth season. 
Anna Chancellor (Ordeal by Innocence), Shelley Conn (Liar), Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners), Richard Blackwood (EastEnders) and Chizzy Akudolu (Holby City) are amongst the guest stars lined up for the eighth season of Death In Paradise, which is set to premiere on BBC One on Thursday January 10th at 9pm. 
Red Planet Pictures and ITV have announced Dublin-based Devin Doyle as the winner of this year's Red Planet Prize - the talent discovery initiative that was launched by Tony Jordan's indie a decade ago to find writers that can create fresh, original and inspiring popular dram. As the winner, Doyle will get a script commission and development opportunities with ITV for his family drama Devoted Wife And Mother. It tells the story of a woman whose life is turned upside down when her debt dealing husband is kidnapped with a 500k ransom deadline for 5pm that day. 
ITV has given the greenlight to Sanditon, an adaptation of Jane Austen's unfinished novel that was written only months before Austen’s death in 1817. Andrew Davies, the award winning scribe behind House Of Cards and War & Peace is penning the adaptation. 
BBC One and Red Planet Pictures are shaking up the cast of Death In Paradise. Original cast member Danny John-Jules, who plays Officer Dwayne Myers, is exiting the Caribbean-set murder mystery drama after seven seasons. Additionally, Shyko Amos (A Very English Scandal) is joining the cast as a series regular for season eight.