BBC Studios Drama Productions has set up a development partnership with Nigerian TV pioneer Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu, founder and CEO of entertainment network EbonyLife Media.
The deal was brokered by CAA.The deal will see BBC Studios Drama Productions develop a new action-adventure series with Abudu’s EbonyLife.
The drama, titled Reclaim, is written by BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Rowan Athale (The Rise) and is based on an original idea by Mo Abudu, Heidi Uys and Bode Asiyanbi.
EbonyLife has described it as its “first big-budget, global series”.The six part heist thriller series will combine themes of colonialism, race and cultural ownership as it follows a team of art thieves looking to return artworks stolen by the British Empire 125 years ago
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