EXCLUSIVE: BritBox is to adapt ML Longworth’s crime novels into a series titled Murder In Provence, in what is planned to be the first of many U.S.
and UK co-productions for the BBC and ITV-owned streamer.As previously reported by Deadline, Harlots and Ghosts producer Monumental Television had secured the rights to the books and attached Shelagh Stephenson, whose credits include Downton Abbey and Shirley, to write the series.The project lands at BritBox as a series of three feature-length episodes, which will star Roger Allam (Endeavour), Nancy Carroll (The Crown), and Keala Settle (TheGreatest Showman).Allam stars as Antoine Verlaque, Investigating Judge in Aix-en Provence, while Carroll is his romantic partner Marine Bonnet.
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