International Premiere Partners Joining Include Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max EMEA, Lionsgate Play, SYN and Wavve London / Los Angeles – June 10, 2021 – Endeavor Content, Element Pictures ( The Favourite , Room , The Lobster ), Lenny Abrahamson .
19 May 2021 : Nathan Griffin Writer/Director Shane Meadows. Revered writer/director Shane Meadows will tackle his first ever television drama for the BBC with Irelands Oscar-nominated production company Element Pictures.
The Gallows Pole is based on Benjamin Myers’ 2017 novel of the same name, and fictionalises the remarkable true story of the rise and fall of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners.
Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in eighteenth century Yorkshire, the compelling drama follows the enigmatic David Hartley, as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.