Peter Capaldi Directing Sky Comedy Pilot ‘They Fuck You Up’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Capaldi, the previous Physician Who star, is to direct a comedy-drama pilot for Sky Studios a few mom who adopts 5 kids.

Capaldi will helm They F**ok You Up, which is predicated on Sarah Naish’s memoir However He Seems to be So Regular: A Dangerous-Tempered Parenting Information for Adopters and Foster Dad and mom. 

The non-broadcast pilot will shoot early subsequent 12 months and is made by Tod Productions, the STV Studios-backed firm based by Vera producer Elaine Collins, and Sky Studios. The challenge was initially developed for the BBC.

They F**ok You Up is written by Thomas Eccleshare, whose debut drama Witness Quantity Three aired this 12 months on Channel 5, the UK broadcaster owned by Paramount. 

Eccleshare, who collaborated with Tod and Capaldi on their upcoming Apple TV+ sequence Legal Document, stated the Sky Studios challenge was a “humorous, sincere and caustic” have a look at parenting. Naish adopted 5 kids and However He Seems to be So Regular is a self-confessed bad-tempered information to elevating children. 

“She’s type of like one of the best mom on the earth and the worst mom on the earth,” Eccleshare stated. “She’s going to go away her children on the facet of the motorway to make their very own approach house but additionally totally assist them by their fairly excessive difficulties.”

Though Sky Studios has but to decide to a full sequence, Eccleshare stated he had been commissioned to write down an additional two, half-hour episodes. The chief producers are Collins and Anil Gupta, who heads up comedy for Sky Studios. Katie Churchill is the producer.

Capaldi is healthier often called an actor however has directed prior to now, most notably on Getting On, the BAFTA-winning BBC well being service comedy. He’s married to Collins.

Sky Studios is rising the variety of pilots it’s producing because it seems to be to search out hits to comply with Chernobyl and Gangs of London.

Eccleshare is creating a second sequence for Sky, titled Schtum. He stated it was a “Rush Hour for the twenty first century” centering on the unlikely crime-fighting duo of a Hasidic Jew, who’s a member of the Shomrim neighbourhood watch group in north London, and a Black feminine Metropolitan Police officer.

“They each go rogue towards their communities to make this extraordinarily odd couple preventing crime in a heightened Hackney,” Eccleshare stated.

He has written the script with pal Tom Joseph. The challenge is housed at Monumental Tv, the Harlots producer run by Alison Owen and Debra Hayward.

Schtum was initially developed for Channel 4. “The Channel 4 model was just a little extra Prime Suspect and this one is a little more Fargo,” Eccleshare stated.