EXCLUSIVE: Canadian streamer Crave has acquired BBC drama Dope Ladies.
The Unhealthy Wolf-produced sequence was one of many buzziest on the current LA Screenings, the place a full episode was on present, and Bell Media-owned streamer Crave has now swooped to take native rights from distributor Sony Footage Tv.
It is going to be unveiled as a part of Bell’s Upfront in a couple of minutes, we hear, together with different U.S. and worldwide acquisitions and a swathe of authentic and returning packages for Crave, CTV and Bell’s different English- and French-language networks.
Revealed by Deadline final 12 months, Dope Ladies delves into the historical past of the inter-war Soho prison underworld and is impressed by Marek Kohn’s Dope Ladies: The Start of the British Drug Underground non-fiction ebook.Set within the early twentieth century, it follows a time when feminine gangs ran the golf equipment, medicine and moonshine distribution. It can launch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer within the UK, and comes from Polly Stenham (The Face, The Neon Demon) and Alex Warren (Eleanor).
The present has been gestating since 2018, when Unhealthy Wold co-founder Tranter met Stenham a couple of completely different mission however was amazed when she heard about how the Soho nightclub scene had boomed within the Twenties, with 150 such golf equipment working through the nearly prohibition-like interval. Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) and Eliza Scanlen (Sharp Objects) are main the solid. Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher and Geraldine James even have key roles.
“Dope Ladies is a superb streaming title,” stated Justin Stockman, Bell Media’s VP, Content material Growth & Programming, who oversees all English-language programming for the Canadian networks big.
Unhealthy Wolf adopted a U.S.-style pilot technique on Dope Ladies by ending episode one months earlier than the remainder of the present in order that may very well be shopped on the London and LA TV Screenings. Jane Tranter, who co-runs the Physician Who and His Darkish Supplies producer, informed Deadline on the time this was a primary for the Sony-backed indie and was pushed by the requirements of the present drama market.