‘Fleabag’ EPs Harry & Jack Williams Talk “Primal” BBC Series ‘Boat Story’, First-Time Directing & The End Of Peak TV – Mipcom Cannes

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EXCLUSIVE: Fleabag EPs Harry and Jack Williams have said they wanted to “go back to something simple and primal” with upcoming BBC series Boat Story, which comes at the back-end of an “era of peak TV when you start to feel every story is being told.” Jack Williams joked that the storied writer-producers “didn’t turn the dial but feel we broke the dial” on the upcoming series, which is produced by the Williams’ All3Media-backed drama label Two Brothers Pictures and is a pivotal part of distributor All3Media International’s catalog at this week’s Mipcom Cannes.

The show stars a rotating cast of actors that the Williams’ have worked with over the years including Back to Life co-creator Daisy Haggard, Noughts + Crosses’ Paterson Joseph and Tchéky Karyo (The Missing), along with BAFTA-winner Joanna Scanlan.

The offbeat thriller follows Janet (Haggard) and Samuel (Joseph) as they clutch on to a haul of illegal drugs found on a shipwrecked boat.

The pair can’t believe their luck as they agree to sell the goods and split the cash, but on their tail is a sharp-suited gangster known as ‘The Tailor’ (Karyo). “In an era of peak TV when you start to feel every story is being told we wanted to go back to something simple and primal, and tell a morality tale,” said Jack Williams. “This is one of the oldest premises in the book, the idea behind what people do when they discover a metaphorical pot of gold.” Harry Williams said the show is a natural extension of two of the pair’s recent BBC series, The Tourist and The Missing, but takes an even more offbeat tone.