BBC Three’s ‘Wreck’: Second Season Of Horror Comedy In Development As Creator Talks Queer Identity & The Scarcity Of British Slasher Shows
04.10.2022 - 12:29
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EXCLUSIVE: Season two of Euston Films’ BBC Three horror comedy Wreck is in development prior to the first airing, as creator Ryan J. Brown opens up about portraying queer identity and a scarcity of British slasher.
Newly-promoted Euston MD Noemi Spanos and Brown told Deadline they are busy developing the second season and Brown always planned the show to run for at least three. Meanwhile, the horror comedy is one of distributor Fremantle’s flagships being pushed to international buyers at Mipcom later this month. It launches on Sunday October 9.
The genre-bending show, a youth-skewing horror set on a cruise ship that has comic elements, “lends itself well to international sales,” according to Spanos. “The boat itself has a very international cast of characters coming together that should give it a broad reach,” she added, stating that Wreck’s trailer has already attracted widespread attention on social media.
Spanos and Brown are working on a different early stage project and Brown also has a show in development for BBC One. Wreck is the debut solo TV project for the BAFTA New Writing Prize winner.
Wreck follows 19-year-old Jamie Walsh, who boards mega cruise ship The MS Sacramentum as a new crew member. Jamie sneaks on under an assumed identity, so he can covertly investigate what happened to his sister, Pippa, who disappeared on the very same ship three months earlier. With scant details of her last days, Jamie begins ingratiating himself into her old social circles onboard, in the hope of getting to the bottom of the mystery.
Brown was inspired by the likes of Edgar Wright’s work, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The League of Gentlemen but said British horror TV has been “few and far between.”
“You get horror in the
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