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The executive producers of critically acclaimed BBC prison drama Time have launched their own scripted production operation.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K.’s Studio Crook has acquired the rights to develop “Damaged Goods,” the first of Helen Black’s “Lilly Valentine” legal book series, into a returning television drama series “Valentine” (6 x 60’). “Valentine” will follow Lilly Valentine, an almost divorced single mother on the wrong side of 40 who excels at her job at a local Oldham law firm. She will go to any length to help her clients, at the expense of both her son and her nearly ex-husband.

Time was a huge hit when it first appeared on TV screens with Stephen Graham taking on the role as prison officer Eric McNally, while Sean Bean portrayed Mark Cobden. Eric and Mark won't feature in the second series of the Jimmy McGovern-penned drama as it's set to take places in a women's prison. Arriving at Carlingford Prison on the same day, Orla, Abi and Kelsey are thrown together to face an unfamiliar world.

Bella Ramsey-starring BBC prison drama Time has added BritBox North America as co-producer and revealed more cast plus first-look image (above).

K.J. Yossman Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance and Bella Ramsey don prison-issue tracksuits in the first image from their upcoming series “Time.” “Doctor Who” star Whittaker, Lawrance (“The Silent Twins”) and Ramsey (“The Last of Us”) star as three inmates in a women’s prison in the U.K. in a follow-up to the Sean Bean series of the same name. Jimmy McGovern returns to pen the second anthology-style season of the show with some actors from the series’ first outing – including Siobhan Finneran as prison chaplain Marie-Louise – reprising their roles. Helen Black co-writes while Andrea Harkin directs.

Ben Whishaw has won the coveted Leading Actor gong at the BAFTA TV Awards.

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and United Agents have set former ITVS Creative Director Patrick Spence (Spy Among Friends) as Managing Director of their UK film and TV production joint venture.

K.J. Yossman Jimmy McGovern’s British prison drama “Time” is returning for a second season featuring a new cast. “The Last of Us” star Bella Ramsey, “Doctor Who’s” Jodie Whittaker and “The Silent Twins” star Tamara Lawrance are all joining the show. The original show featured Sean Bean and Stephen Graham as a prisoner and prison officer respectively. It averaged 11.6 million viewers across a three-part run and won a 2022 BAFTA Television award for best mini-series. The new season, which is comprised of three parts, will be set in a women’s prison. Siobhan Finneran (“Happy Valley”), who also featured in Season 1, reprises her role as prison chaplain Marie-Louise.

The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey has been cast in the second season of BBC prison drama Time alongside Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance and Siobhan Finneran.

EXCLUSIVE: Screen greats Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Cassel have been set to lead cast in action thriller Damaged, about a Chicago detective who goes to Scotland after an emerging serial killer’s crimes match those that he investigated five years earlier, one of which was the crime scene of his murdered girlfriend. 

Fox is doubling down on a pair of freshman crime dramas.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent U.K. producer Nicola Shindler received on Tuesday the third Women in Series Award at Series Mania, Europe biggest TV festival.  Few awards seem such just reward. From serving as a script editor on “Cracker” (1993), Jimmy McGovern’s breakout, to producing his “Hillsborough” (1995) and executive producing “Queer as Folk” (1999) which heralded Russell T. Davies as a major writing talent, very few producers have been so consistently successful down the decades.  Shows produced by Shindler in just the last 10 years take in Sally Wainwright’s “Happy Valley” (2014), Harlan Coben’s “The Five” (2016) and “Safe” (2018), Davies’ “Years and Years and It’s a Sin, his consecration, and now “Nolly,” made by Shindler out of Quay Street Productions, her new label launched in 2021 as part of ITV Studios.

While Dame Sheila Hancock still has a zest for life and relishes being a working actress, she concedes that her body is beginning to fail her.The star has owned a home in Luberon, France, for the past 30 years, but says when she visited for the first time after the pandemic, something had changed. “The last time I went after lockdown, I realised I’ve aged,” she says. “Driving down to get there, I found it nerve-wracking for the first time in my life.

Fox has unveiled the first on-air promo for its upcoming anthology drama Accused, based on the International Emmy-winning British series. The project comesfrom 24 executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa and House creator/executive producer David Shore.

EXCLUSIVE: Marlee Matlin has tapped three Deaf actors, Stephanie Nogueras (Killing It), Joshua Castille and Lauren Ridloff (Children Of A Lesser God), to star in the episode she’s directing in the upcoming Fox anthology drama series Accused. Megan Boone also stars in her first major television role since The Blacklist, along with Aaron Ashmore (Locke & Key), Jean-Michele Le Gal (Take This Waltz) and Daphne Rubin-Vega (Allswell) in the series from Homeland EPs Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, and David Shore (The Good Doctor, House).

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominee Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Resident), Wendell Pierce (The Wire) and Karen LeBlanc (The Kings of Napa) are set to star in an episode of Accused, Fox’s straight-to-series crime anthology drama, Accused, executive-produced by Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa and David Shore.

“Accused,” the new courtroom drama from “Homeland” bosses Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, and “House’s” David Shore, has expanded its guest cast.“Little Miss Sunshine” star Abigail Breslin and Aisha Dee of “The Bold Type” have signed on to guest star on the series from Fox and Sony Pictures Television.Each episode of the new series “opens in a courtroom on the accused, with viewers knowing nothing about their crime or how they ended up on trial,” per Fox. It’s told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks.Abigail plays Esme Brewer, “a waitress who left home when she was 15 to escape her toxic past.

Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Aisha Dee (The Bold Type) are set to guest star on the Fox anthology series Accused.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox’s upcoming crime anthology drama Accused has added Oakes Fegley (The Goldfinch) and Robert Wisdom (Barry) to the cast as guest stars. They will appear opposite Michael Chiklis and Jill Hennessy. The series comes from executive producers Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa and David Shore.

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Hennessy is set to star opposite Michael Chiklis in Fox’s straight-to-series crime anthology drama, Accused, executive-produced by Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa and David Shore.

Fox has added another big player to its anthology series. Billy Porter has signed on to direct an episode of Accused.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterWhitney Cummings has been cast in an episode of the upcoming Fox anthology series “Accused.”The series is based on the BBC crime anthology of the same name. Each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused, with the audience knowing nothing about their crime or how they ended up on trial.

Oscar winner Marlee Matlin is set to make her directorial debut in an episode of Fox’s new anthology drama series Accused, from Homeland EPs Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, and Howard Shore (The Good Doctor, House).

EXCLUSIVE: A former Skins star, a Criminal Defence Solicitor and a TV writer have been selected for training body ScreenSkills  third New Writers Programme delivered by  The Responder producer Dancing Ledge Productions’.

EXCLUSIVE: Toheeb Jimoh, who broke out this past year on the Emmy-winning series Ted Lasso, has signed with WME for representation.

Jamie Lang BBC Studios has closed a raft of sales deals for Jimmy McGovern’s “Time,” a BBC Studios production for BBC One which has proved a critical and rating success in its first month on the air, pulling 11.6 million viewers in its first 28 days.

, Sean Bean is spending time behind bars in, an upcoming prison drama written by Jimmy McGovern (, ). And only ET has the exclusive first look at the BritBox original series.

Jeremy Clarkson, 61, has slammed the BBC for its portrayal of prisons in the broadcaster's latest critically acclaimed drama, Time. The Clarkson's Farm star said that although he enjoyed the acting performances of Sean Bean and Stephen Graham in Jimmy McGovern's BBC One series, he was left feeling "annoyed" by one particular aspect of the show.

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Naman Ramachandran Stephen Graham (“The Irishman”) and Sean Bean (“Game of Thrones”) will star in three-part prison drama series “Time,” created by Jimmy McGovern (“Accused”) for U.K. broadcaster BBC One.Set within the British penal system, the drama is seen through the eyes of two different men, a teacher, husband and father who killed an innocent man in an accident, played by Bean, and a caring prison officer, played by Graham.