PBS is developing a drama series based on the public and private life of Clementine Churchill, wife of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
The U.S. public broadcaster is working with Maven Screen Media, the production company set up by Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler, Origin Pictures, the producer of HBO and Sky’s Catherine the Great, on five-part series Mrs.
Churchill (w/t). Margaret Nagle, who previously wrote on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, is writing. The project was previously being developed as a feature film, as revealed by Deadline in 2018.
It is the story of a fiercely independent and very modern heroine who risked everything to save her country and the world from fascism–and her husband from himself.
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