Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio and his HTM Television partner, Episodes and Flack producer Jimmy Mulville, have struck a first-look deal with 20th Television.It comes as the pair, who produce series such as BBC drama Bloodlands and ITV drama Trigger Point via HTM, are looking to expand into the U.S.Deadline revealed in September that HTM was also producing crime drama DI Ray starring ER’s Parminder Nagra and written by Line of Duty’s Maya Sondhi, for ITV.It marks a return to the U.S.
for Mercurio, who had previously written a number of U.S. pilots that never made it. He told Deadline in 2019 that he was looking to the States for projects after he had got his cop thriller Line of Duty running smoothly on BBC One.He said that he’d written a
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