International Disruptors: Working Title TV’s Surian Fletcher-Jones Talks BAFTA-Winning ‘We Are Lady Parts’, Working With Dolly Alderton & Her Mission To Bring Young & Diverse Voices To Screen
deadline.comWelcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S.
shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re speaking with Working Title Television’s Surian Fletcher-Jones, the executive producer who is responsible for bringing the likes of Nida Manzoor’s We Are Lady Parts and Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love to the small screen. Surian Fletcher-Jones has spent the last two decades of her career fighting to bring important and diverse voices out of the periphery and into the spotlight and now, after her latest efforts at Working Title Television, it seems the needle is finally moving in the right direction.
The esteemed executive producer and head of drama at Working Title TV, which is a part of Universal International Studios, is coming off the back of a banner few years with the knockout success of female Muslim punk-rock series We Are Lady Parts for Peacock and Channel 4 and Dolly Alderton’s BBC drama Everything I Know About Love.
The former, which was created by Nida Manzoor, was the recipient of three Bafta TV awards this year while the latter, based on British writer-journalist Alderton’s personal experiences in her twenties, premiered this summer to rave reviews. “I am obsessed with thinking about female voices, diverse voices and counter-culture and alternative culture,” says Fletcher-Jones, speaking to Deadline from her London office. “I feel like my mission in life and in my career is to find a wide audience for those voices and not just dabble around on the fringes.” But it’s taken a long time to get here, the former Channel 4 and Scott Free exec admits. “It’s taken me 20 years to make a show with someone the
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