Kay Mellor Receives BBC Drama Commission for Adaptation of Her Play A Passionate Woman

The BBC has announced a new round of drama commissions that will create more than 20 hours of television content, including one to playwright Kay Mellor, whose stage play A Passionate Woman, will be adapted into a two-part series. Woman premiered in London in 1994 and focuses on a mother’s affair in the fifties and the consequences of that affair 30 years on.

The BBC has also commissioned a new take on the Sherlock Holmes stories from Stephen Moffat (occasionally contributed to the new Dr. Who) and Mark Gattis. In this series, Sherlock, the famed detective will be played by Benedict Cumberbatch (Olivier Award nominee for his work in Hedda Gabler in 2006).

Other BBC commissions include one to Fiona Seres, for a four-part drama about an 18-year-old deaf girl who witnesses a murder and becomes the key witness, one to Neil Cross for a new detective drama and one to Simon Donald, for a five-part series which follows the crew of a submarine as they search for life forms.

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