BBC Studios and ABS-CBN Corporation, the Philippines leading media and entertainment company, announced a new scripted format agreement that will see gripping psychological drama Doctor Foster remade for the Filipino audience.
Originally written by Mike Bartlett and produced by Drama Republic, th
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BBC Studios and
ABS-CBN Corporation, the Philippines leading media and entertainment company, today announced a new scripted format agreement that will see gripping psychological drama
Doctor Foster remade for the Filipino audience.
Originally written by Mike Bartlett and produced by Drama Republic, the BAFTA award-winning series centres around a trusted doctor whose life implodes when she suspects her husband of having an affair. The local 50 x 60’ series will be made by ABS-CBN Entertainment and will go into production later this year. It will be executive produced by ABS-CBN president and CEO Carlo Katigak, ABS-CBN COO of broadcast Cory Vidanes, ABS-CBN Entertainment Production head Laurenti Dyogi, and ABS-CBN Dreamscape Entertainment head Deo Endrinal.
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As month after month has elapsed since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, audiences have never been in more need of entertainment that doesn’t require leaving the house and that offers a degree of familiarity. And broadcasters were ever more hungry for established winners over new titles with promise. Formats, be they unscripted or scripted, were often the answer for both families in their living rooms and those setting the channel schedules and boosting the slates of streamers.
“In the scripted space, there has been an uplift in format commissions being greenlit as a result of broadcasters and platforms looking for proven successes in this area, with stories that can resonate on a global scale combined with the benefits of shorter development times from paper to screen,” says Sumi Connock, creative director of formats at BBC Studios.