THE BRIEF
You need to generate 3 detailed ideas for a new long form UK TV drama that uses the crime genre as a starting point. The program is being commissioned by Amazon Prime in order to attract a new customers drawing on the audience being cultivated for high quality crime drama - particularly from the states and Europe.
Series ONE
TITLE: A GAME OF SHADOWS
GENRE: CRIME, DRAMA, CONSPIRACY
LOCATION: EDINBURGH
EPISODES: 8
CHANNEL: HBO
- GARY LOWBOW (PROTAGONIST, MID-50s, DIVORCED, SOON TO
RETIRE LIEUTENANT, SCEPTIC, AGNOSTIC, ANALOG, WAR VETERAN, OLDSCHOOL)
- BISMARCK LAQUEESHA (HEAD OF CRYPT, ANTAGONIST, CRIME LORD,
QUIET, WITHDRAWN, BELIEVES IN A HIGHER POWER, PURE FUNDAMENTALIST, WANTS TO
RESTORE BALANCE, ANALOG)
Series TWO
A detective and his daughter face tragedy as he finally catches
the cities number one threat and ends up having the remaining gang members come
to his home to threaten him. Things go badly however when they beat him too
hard and end up killing him in the process and the gang members realise the
little girl has witnessed everything.
Feeling disappointed they messed up the ‘mission’, they
decide to have ‘fun’ with the girl before disposing her, however being the
daughter of a protective father and a top detective she was raised to defend
herself to the extreme and to always keep a weapon in her room.
Before anything drastic happens to her, she stabs one of the
members and makes a hasty escape.
Several years later she’s worked her way up to become the
next detective, following and honouring her father. With the information and
skills she’s required from this job she takes it into her advantage to find
easier ways to go outside the law to hunt down her fathers murderers – and
plans to kill each one, getting her revenge.
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Time: 2000s
Female Lead: Brooklyn Creek
Male Lead: Salt
Series THREE
In a little town in Scotland females around the age of 20
are being murdered in horrendous ways and having their bodies ‘used’ before
death. It gets personal however when Detective Monroe’s little sister is one of
the victims.
Monroe and her partner must figure out the links with all
these women, who’s killing them and why before it’s too late.
Each woman has a number counting down from 10 burned into
their skin and a message pre-murder warning them they are next.
They soon discover all the women went to the same college
and they believe the murderer might have been someone from that college and
year in age.
Location: Scotland
Time: 2015
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