BBC One boards sleeper-train suspense thriller from Fremantle’s Euston Films

BBC One has commissioned a real-time thriller set on a sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London, with Fremantle-owned prodco Euston Films producing.

Kate Harwood

Nightsleeper focuses on two people who have never met, one on the train and one not, working together to save the lives of the passengers while a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly escalating events onboard.

The 6×60′ series for BBC One and BBC iPlayer is produced by Euston Films (Wreck, The Sister, Dublin Murders), a Fremantle label. Euston Films MD Kate Harwood and Noemi Spanos will executive produce with Nick Leather and Gaynor Holmes for the BBC.

The series will be directed by Jamie Magnus Stone (Doctor Who, Ten Pound Poms) and produced by Jonathan Curling (The Sister, Baghdad Central). Fremantle is handling global distribution.

Kate Harwood and Noemi Spanos said in a joint statement: “The classic on-screen genre of a runaway train is given a thrilling modern twist by screenwriter Nick Leather and we find ourselves with a small group of people in a race against time. We can’t wait to film this in Scotland next year.”

In related news, Fremantle has partnered with prodco Carnivalesque Films to make feature-length documentary Kim’s Video. It tells the story of Kim’s Video Collection, a now-defunct video rental store in New York City, with filmmaker David Redmon travelling to Sicily and South Korea to track down Mr Kim and his collection of 55,000 films.

The VHS tape hire store was opened inside a Manhattan dry-cleaning business in 1984 and was visited by Hollywood directors Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese.

Mandy Chang and Bernie Kay are exec producing Kim’s Video for Fremantle Global Documentaries, alongside Angela Neillis for Fremantle International.