BBC One's Silk is to be remade for Us television.
The legal series from BAFTA-winning writer Peter Moffat is being adapted by ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Moffat is attached as executive producer for the Us version, which will be scripted by Drop Dead Diva writer Marty Scott.
The original Silk - starring Maxine Peake as Martha Costello QC - ran for three series on BBC One, launching in 2011 and airing its final episode earlier this year.
ABC's planned series will reinvent Costello as a Us attorney who works at elitist law firm Crown & Royce.
This is the second of Moffat's projects to be adapted for Us television, with HBO still working on a long-gestating adaptation of another BBC series, Criminal Justice.
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The legal series from BAFTA-winning writer Peter Moffat is being adapted by ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Moffat is attached as executive producer for the Us version, which will be scripted by Drop Dead Diva writer Marty Scott.
The original Silk - starring Maxine Peake as Martha Costello QC - ran for three series on BBC One, launching in 2011 and airing its final episode earlier this year.
ABC's planned series will reinvent Costello as a Us attorney who works at elitist law firm Crown & Royce.
This is the second of Moffat's projects to be adapted for Us television, with HBO still working on a long-gestating adaptation of another BBC series, Criminal Justice.
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Watch a trailer for the original...
- 10/27/2014
- Digital Spy
ABC is looking to Peter Moffat's BAFTA-nominated drama Silk to produce its next legal drama. The network is teaming with Moffat and Drop Dead Diva's Marty Scott to adapt the British drama, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Silk, which has received a script commitment from the network, is described as an explosive drama that chronicles the journey of unorthodox and uncompromising attorney Martha Costello. What she lacks in polish she makes up for in her unstoppable blue-collar determination. Martha is constantly in battle not only for her own clients, but also for her own survival at the world's
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- 10/24/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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