The BBC is adapting Marilyn Kaye‘s Gifted ebook collection for teenagers and shifting the story to Scotland.
The youngsters’s motion journey collection shall be reimagined as a 10-part drama collection following a various group of younger Scottish teenagers who uncover they every have distinctive superpowers. Once they notice they’re being focused by a strong group often known as the Bodkin, they need to be a part of forces to guard themselves and people they love.
Kaye’s six novels observe a bunch of American pre-teens. The BBC mentioned greater than 3,000 Scottish kids have utilized to be within the present, which is being penned by The Worst Witch author Emma Reeves. It’s a world co-production between Glasgow-based producer Black Camel Footage and Paris-based French producer Media Valley. The present has been commissioned by CBBC in affiliation with NDR/ARD by way of One Gate Media in Germany, with further assist from Display screen Scotland.
BBC Youngsters’s has gone huge on buzzy variations of late, making variations of Oliver Twist and The Well-known 5.
Sarah Muller, Senior Head of Commissioning 7+ BBC Youngsters’s and Schooling: “Gifted will deliver audiences prime quality action-filled adventures from the ebook collection, delivered to life in Scotland. We’re working with Display screen Scotland to symbolize their vibrant artistic business with an thrilling younger Scottish solid and good expertise behind and in entrance of the digital camera.”
Arabella Web page Croft, EP at Black Camel Footage, added: “Scottish youngsters clearly have expertise they usually wish to act! We’re excited to supply this present for CBBC and produce these younger abilities and our lovely capital metropolis to a younger viewers globally.”
Gifted options on a slate for BBC Youngsters’s that additionally features a Gladiators spin-off titled Epic Pranks from Hungry Bear and MGM, and a behind-the-scenes doc collection a couple of boarding college titled Stage Stars.
Patricia Hidalgo, Director BBC Youngsters’s and Schooling says: “We proceed to showcase homegrown dramas and collection which purpose to offer our younger viewers an perception into the varied lives of kids, characters and settings from throughout the UK with distinctive tales to inform which is able to resonate with them and with their households.”
