EXCLUSIVE: German community ZDF has boarded the BBC’s upcoming drama Shy & Lola starring Harry Potter’s Bel Powley and The Evening Supervisor’s Hayley Squires.
ZDFneo is now aboard in affiliation with the sequence from Child Reindeer maker Clerkenwell Movies and Amanda Coe, which stars Squires and Powley because the titular characters. They’re two very totally different girls who’re compelled to develop into allies when a homicide entangles them within the felony underworld working in Shy’s small coastal city within the North of England. Starting as exploited novices, the unlikely duo end up to have a expertise for crime.
Squires performs a cleaner scraping by and dreaming of a brand new life in Portugal whereas Powley is an ex-model-turned-grifter who arrives on the town with bother at her heels. I, Daniel Blake star Squires performs Sally Value-Jones in The Evening Supervisor for the BBC and Prime Video, which is able to air Season 3 quickly, whereas Powley can quickly be seen enjoying Aunt Petunia in HBO’s Harry Potter.
Shy & Lola is the most recent present to contain each the BBC and ZDF because the pair solidify a partnership. They have a high-end drama pact collectively already, which has produced the likes of Killing Eve origin story Honey, though we perceive Shy & Lola shouldn’t be a part of this official pact. A Good Woman’s Information to Homicide is one other present the pair have labored on collectively, together with the upcoming The Reluctant Vampire.
BBC Studios additionally has a long-term partnership with ZDF and shall be promoting Shy & Lola together with Channel 4’s Break Clause, which can also be being co-produced with ZDF.
Shy & Lola shall be one in all BBC Studios’ key exhibits at MIPCOM subsequent month. It was revealed to Deadline on a hefty slate by BBC drama boss Lindsay Salt a number of months again, who has beforehand stated Coe’s “excellent scripts will shock and amuse viewers in equal measure.”
