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BBC Developing Wagatha Christie Drama As Latest In ‘A Very English Scandal’ Strand
11.01.2023 - 12:23 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has mined the 1960s and 1970s for its award-winning A Very English Scandal strand but, for the next one, viewers could be treated to a modern-day saga they are slightly more familiar with.
Deadline can reveal that a retelling of the Wagatha Christie drama is in early stage development as the third instalment of the hit series and Paramount+’s Flatshare scribe Rose Lewenstein is attached. The show once again comes from Sony-backed Blueprint Pictures and was initially rumored to be penned by Poldark writer Debbie Horsefield before Lewenstein came on board.
The as-yet-untitled latest in the Scandal series, which Deadline understands is one of a number of stories being considered, will cover one of the hottest British legal disputes of the past few years and comes fresh off the back of a Channel 4 factual drama titled Vardy vs Rooney: A Courtroom Drama and a soon-to-launch Disney+ doc on the affair.
It is in early stage development, Deadline understands, coming two years after A Very British Scandal aired, telling the story of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. Amazon Prime Video has co-produced the two prior mini-series but is understood not to be involved as of yet.
Most readers will be familiar by now with the Wagatha Christie saga, in which two English soccer stars’ wives, Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney, entered the courtroom after the former sued the latter for defamation. The affair was so named after Rooney used sleuthing tactics to unearth a person she believed to be Vardy as the leaker of a number of stories about her after accessing her private Instagram account. Vardy’s defamation claim was dismissed following a trial that generated plenty of headlines, with the court believing Rooney’s
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