BBC Drama has revealed eight new commissions from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England and announced four new commissioning roles.

"Better" is from from the writers of “Humans,” Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, and “Chernobyl” producer SISTER. Set in Leeds in Northern England, the series follows a corrupt police detective who undergoes a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing, but satisfying her newfound conscience won’t be straightforward. The series is executive produced by Mona Qureshi for the BBC and Jane Featherstone, Chris Fry, Lucy Dyke, Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley for Sister in association with Northern Sister.

NORTHERN SISTER WILL FOCUS ON DEVELOPING AND PRODUCING HIGH-END SCRIPTED PROJECTS IN THE REGION

BASED IN MANCHESTER, DYKE IS SET TO STRENGTHEN CREATIVE TIES WITH TALENT IN CITIES INCLUDING LEEDS, LIVERPOOL, NEWCASTLE AND BRADFORD.

Lucy Dyke joins SISTER to launch Northern SISTER as part of the independent content studio co-founded by Jane Featherstone, Stacey Snider and Elisabeth Murdoch.

'Black Mirror' producer Lucy Dyke will head up the Manchester-based operation, which will focus on developing and producing scripted projects from the region.

Sister, the fast-growing production powerhouse founded by Jane Featherstone, Stacey Snider and Elisabeth Murdoch that has produced such shows as Chernobyl, Gangs of London and Giri/Haji, is launching a new entity based in Manchester.

David Thewlis has signed on to star opposite Olivia Colman in "Landscapers," HBO’s four-episode limited series from Sky Studios about a seemingly ordinary couple who become the focus of an investigation when dead bodies turn up in their yard.

Will Sharpe, who worked with Colman in the offbeat 2016 British comedy series “Flowers,” has signed on to direct all four episodes. The series hails from the Sister production banner and first-time TV series creator Ed Sinclair. Jane Featherstone, Chris Fry, Colman and Sinclair are executive producers for Featherstone’s Sister banner and Colman’s South of the River Pictures. Production is under way in the U.K.

Kenneth Branagh has been set to direct the untitled Bee Gees biopic movie for Paramount Pictures.

The film got set up in a massive rights package in late 2019 by Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King at GK and it became the first film project for Sister — the venture launched by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone. Amblin quickly came aboard as producer and financier of 25% of the film.

Barry Gibb, who participated in the touching Frank Marshall-directed HBO documentary How Can You Mend a Broken Heart about the Gibb siblings, is very involved in the narrative film, and will be executive producer.

Ben Elton is writing the current draft of the screenplay. Among his scripting credits is All Is True, the 2018 pic which Branagh directed and starred as William Shakespeare.

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