Stuff the British Stole, the favored Australian-Canadian documentary collection exploring the controversy surrounding cultural objects purloined by British colonialists, is ready to be reimagined as a big-budget scripted heist collection. The brand new model is backed by Warner Bros. Worldwide Tv Manufacturing Australia (The Twelve, Love Me) and Wood Horse (The Clearing, Mom & Son).
The companions describe the collection, which can run for six, 1-hour episodes, as “a provocative and sharply noticed deep dive into the complexity of historical past, and id, in our trendy world by means of an irreverent and wryly humorous lens.”
The brand new drama is created and scripted by playwright turned rising TV author Anchuli Felicia King, who wrote on HBO collection The Sympathizer and The Child, Amazon’s Deadloch, and The Twelve for Foxtel. Ben Chessell (The Nice, Giri Haji, Physician Who, Deadloch) is connected to direct and in addition write episodes. The core inventive crew is joined by Kacie Anning (Class of ‘07, Add, The Different Man) and award-winning First Nations author and playwright, Dylan Van Den Berg.
Marc Fennell, creator of the unique documentary collection, will be part of the crew as an govt producer. Different govt producers embody Richard Finlayson and Jude Troy of Wood Horse, and Hamish Lewis and Michael Brooks of WBITVP Australia.
“Led by Anchuli Felicia King, the writing crew, alongside connected set-up director Ben Chessell, have developed a novel solid of various and engaging characters, who nearly by accident steal their approach to changing into the heroes of a worldwide repatriation motion,” the producers stated in a joint assertion. “If there’s one factor we discovered from the sensible Stuff the British Stole factual collection, it’s that historical past is complicated – a lesson our characters will be taught the arduous manner.”
Fennell’s factual collection was based mostly on his internationally profitable podcast of the identical identify. The primary season of the factual TV adaptation loved robust scores on ABC TV Australia and CBC Canada, with a second season premiering on ABC TV in Australia on June 17. A 3rd season is at present in growth from producers Wood Horse, WildBear Leisure and Cream Productions.