"Gripping
contemporary thriller" The Ice Cream Girls heading to ITV
Chilling
international best-seller The Ice Cream Girls is to be adapted for ITV.
British
actresses Lorraine Burroughs, star of summer hit Fast Girls and TV drama
Spooks, and Jodhi May, of Strike Back and Tipping the Velvet fame, will join
Line of Duty actor Martin Compston to play the lead characters in the new, three-part
television drama.
The drama
will be based on Dorothy Koomson's 2010 novel of the same name which follows
two teenage girls from very different backgrounds who, in the summer of 1995,
are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. Poppy is convicted of the crime
while pretty, popular Serena walks away free.
Fast forward
seventeen years and the women find themselves back in the same seaside town for
the first time. Serena's comfortable life as a devoted wife and mother couldn't
be further away from Poppy's as she emerges from the end of her seventeen year
sentence determined to prove her innocence.They are now forced to confront each
other and the truth behind their shared history.
The Ice Cream
Girls will be produced for Left Bank Pictures by Lucy Dyke who said of the
project: "We are very excited to be in production on Kate Brooke's
captivating scripts, based on Dorothy Koomson's bestselling novel. We have a
stellar cast in place, led by two strong women, and look forward to bringing
this powerful emotional thriller to the screen for ITV1."
Laura Mackie
from ITV's drama commissioning team said: "We are delighted to be working
on such a gripping contemporary thriller with Left Bank Pictures."
Source: Radio Times
Also reported by TheIrish Film & Television Network
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