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Six-time Oscar nominated writer/director/producer Jim Sheridan has tackled a variety of films in his storied career, which includes My Left Foot, The Boxer, In The Name Of The Father, In America, The Field, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ and numerous others. Sometimes, he has explored real life stories, others fictional, but in perhaps his most unusual film yet, he is blending both in the film, Re-Creation, that he has co-directed and written with David Merriman, as well as acting in a rare outing in front of the cameras. He has turned to a multi-decade obsession he’s had with the 1996 murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier at her cottage in Ireland. The officially unsolved Irish murder case had British journalist Ian Bailey as a prime suspect, but despite repeated attempts, it was never brought to trial in Ireland. And despite a 2019 conviction and 25 year sentence in...

PBS has boarded Miss Scarlet and the Duke – the first international co-production from A+E Networks International.

The drama, which features The Crown star Kate Phillips as the first-ever female detective in 19th century London, will air on the U.S. public broadcaster in 2020 as part of the Masterpiece strand.

Other international broadcasters to board the six-part series include UKTV’s Alibi in the UK, Seven Network (Australia), Lightbox (New Zealand), Rtl Germany, Yandex (Cis) and Ote Cosmote TV (Greece).

The crime series is a co-production between A+E’s international division and Ireland’s Element 8 Entertainment.

Created by Grantchester and The Mallorca Files writer Rachael New, who also showruns, the six-episode series stars Phillips as Eliza Scarlet. When Eliza’s father dies, he leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza is determined to find another way. Luckily, she...