Peter Capaldi directing Sky adoption comedy pilot, They F**ok You Up

Peter Capaldi is to direct a comedy drama pilot for Sky a couple of mom who adopts 5 youngsters.

They F**K You Up is predicated on Sarah Naish‘s memoir However He Appears So Regular: A Dangerous-Tempered Parenting Information for Adopters and Foster Dad and mom.

The non-broadcast pilot, which is able to shoot subsequent yr in response to US leisure web site Deadline, is written by playwright and former Cambridge Footlight Thomas Eccleshare, whose tv debut, the drama Witness Quantity Three, aired this yr on Channel 5.

Initially developed for the BBC and beforehand going by the title Actual Kids, They F**K You Up, being is made by Tod Productions, the STV Studios-backed firm based by Vera producer Elaine Collins, and Sky Studios. Solid particulars have but to emerge.

Eccleshare, who collaborated with Tod and The Thick Of It star Capaldi on their upcoming Apple TV+ collection Prison File, informed Deadline that the Sky Studios venture was a “humorous, sincere and caustic” take a look at parenting. Naish adopted 5 youngsters and However He Appears So Regular is a self-confessed bad-tempered information to elevating children. 

“She’s type of like the perfect mom on the planet and the worst mom on the planet,” Eccleshare stated. “She is going to depart her children on the facet of the motorway to make their very own method house but additionally totally assist them by means of their fairly excessive difficulties.”

Though Sky Studios is but to decide to a full collection, Eccleshare additionally disclosed that he had been commissioned to jot down an additional two, half-hour episodes. The chief producers are Collins and Anil Gupta, who’s Sky Studios‘ inventive director for comedy. Katie Churchill (Lazy Susan) is the producer.

Although finest often called an actor, Capaldi directed the Bafta-winning NHS comedy Getting On for the BBC, starring Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine, and the Oscar-winning quick movie Franz Kafka’s It is A Fantastic Life. He’s married to Collins.

Eccleshare can be growing a second collection for Sky, titled Schtum. He informed Deadline that it was a “Rush Hour for the twenty first century” targeted 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,” stated Eccleshare, who has penned the script together with his pal Tom Joseph for Monumental Television.

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