Having established themselves as one of the best producers of TV drama, World Productions is currently celebrating after the Season 6 finale of Line Of Duty captured a record-breaking viewership figure of 12.8 million overnight viewers and a 56.2% share.
However, having also recently made Bodyguard, Save Me, and The Pembrokeshire Murders, it's clear that there's more to life than just the walls of AC-12 for the production company.
In fact, 2021 is shaping up to be a busy year for World Productions with four TV shows all scheduled to be released, as per their official site.
At present, an exact premiere date hasn't been set for these four shows yet but they're all scheduled for release in 2021 and are bound to be very popular.
Vigil
The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board a Trident nuclear submarine bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services.
DCI Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) leads an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that threatens the very heart of Britain’s nuclear deterrent.
The BBC series will star Suranne Jones (Gentleman Jack, Doctor Foster), Martin Compston (Line Of Duty, Mary Queen Of Scots), Rose Leslie (Game Of Thrones, The Good Fight), Shaun Evans (Endeavour, Whitechapel), Anjli Mohindra (Bodyguard, Bancroft), Paterson Joseph (The Leftovers, Peep Show), Connor Swindells (Sex Education, Jamestown), Adam James (Belgravia, Doctor Foster), and Gary Lewis (His Dark Materials, Billy Elliot).
The fictional six-part series is written and created by BAFTA-nominated writer Tom Edge, with episodes by Ed Macdonald and Chandni Lakhani.
Showtrial
Every now and then, a trial starts which grips the nation, placing victim and accused - as well as their families - at the heart of a media storm.
Showtrial focuses on one such case, when Talitha Campbell, the arrogant daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, is arrested following the disappearance of a fellow student, Hannah Ellis, the hard-working daughter of a single mother.
From Talitha’s arrest to the jury’s final verdict, Showtrial switches between both sides of the legal battle, as defence and prosecution fight for their version of what really happened to Hannah, and the truth about Talitha: Falsely accused? Or callous murderer?
The BBC drama looks at how wealth, politics and prejudice conspire to distort the quest for justice.
Karen Pirie
ITV has commissioned the cold case murder drama, Karen Pirie, based on Val McDermid’s The Distant Echo.
Adapted by Emer Kenny (Harlots, Save Me Too) Karen Pirie is based on the novel, The Distant Echo, the first in a series of best-selling novels about the young Scottish female detective set in the beautiful Scottish university town of St. Andrew’s.
Karen is a refreshingly normal and charmingly unfashionable young woman – slick, maverick cop she is not - but her quick mouth and ingenuity make her an impressive investigator. Following her promotion to Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, Karen is tasked with reopening the investigation into a murder that has been the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast.
When teenage barmaid Rosie Duff was stabbed to death in 1995, suspicion fell on the three drunken students who discovered her body. But despite police suspicion, the boys were never charged.
Nearly 25 years on, DS Karen Pirie is determined to uncover what happened that fateful night. Do the men know more than they previously revealed? When Karen uncovers flaws in the initial investigation, she finds herself in conflict with the very officers who led the original hunt for the killer.
The Diplomat
The six-part series follows Laura Simmonds and her Barcelona Consul colleague and friend Alba Ortiz as they fight to protect British nationals who find themselves in trouble in the Catalan city.
Mixing the roles of lawyer, counsellor and cop, Laura and Alba’s diplomatic skills are stretched to the limit by the stream of cases that walk through the Consul’s doors.
The series opens on the unexplained death of a young British barman working around Barcelona’s notorious marina. While Laura supports the boy’s angry father, neither the Spanish police nor the Foreign Office is keen to pursue a murder enquiry.
As Laura and Alba uncover the events surrounding the barman’s death, they discover links not only to organised crime but also to the British security services. Laura’s quest for justice places her in real jeopardy, as she threatens to expose secrets that the British and Spanish will go to any lengths to keep hidden.
At present, The Diplomat will be distributed by BBC Studios and air on Alibi.
