Brand New BBC Commissions for Company Pictures – War of the Roses and Truckers

WAR OF THE ROSES, serial based on Philippa Gregory’s best selling novels, adapted by Emma Frost.

Based on the best-selling book The Cousin’s War, by highly acclaimed historical fiction novelist Philippa Gregory. This new series will be set against the backdrop of one of this country’s most bloody periods, The War of The Roses, when two dynasties, the York’s and the Lancaster’s, fought through several generations for the right to rule England. Told uniquely from the perspective of the women who shaped their men and who shaped history in the process. Murderers, mothers and lovers, queens and witches, it’s about women and power at a time when women could still be burnt at the stake for sorcery.

TRUCKERS, 6 x 60, written by William Ivory.

William Ivory’s new series introduces a rogue’s gallery irascible characters, men and women, all of whom work for the same haulage company driving 40 ton articulated lorries across the Midlands. It’s a warm, funny, bitter-sweet character-driven show about getting by in difficult times.