BBC Developing ‘Peaky Blinders’ Creator Steven Knight’s University Drama In Birmingham
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight‘s drama based in a Birmingham university, with a view to potentially turning it into a returnable series.
The as-yet-untitled project, which follows the lives of a group of young people at one of the country’s second-largest city’s five universities, is being produced out of Knight’s new multimillion pound Digbeth Loc.
Studios in the West Midlands, which opened a few months ago. Banijay-backed Kudos and BBC Studios are co-producing. The university drama is in early-stage development but we understand that, if greenlit, the series is being positioned as a potential returner that could air in primetime.
UK TV trade Broadcast previously reported that he was developing the university series but at that point a broadcaster was not attached.
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