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\n\tThe U.Okay.\u2019s Studio Crook<\/a> has acquired the rights to develop \u201cDamaged Goods,\u201d the primary of Helen Black<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLilly Valentine<\/a>\u201d authorized e-book collection, right into a returning tv drama collection \u201cValentine\u201d (6 x 60\u2019).<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cValentine\u201d will observe Lilly Valentine, an virtually divorced single mom on the fallacious aspect of 40 who excels at her job at an area Oldham legislation agency. She will go to any size to assist her purchasers, on the expense of each her son and her practically ex-husband.<\/p>\n \n\tBlack, an ex-lawyer, turned identified for her common crime novels primarily based on her personal experiences earlier than turning to script writing together with co-writing Season 2 of Jimmy McGovern\u2019s jail drama\u00a0\u201cTime,\u201d which is presently airing on BBC One.<\/p>\n \n\tStudio Crook gained funding from Channel 4\u2019s Indie Growth Fund earlier this yr. The \u201cLilly Valentine\u201d collection was revealed by Harper Collins and bought in a number of languages world wide. The deal was brokered by Black\u2019s agent, Frances Arnold at Rochelle Stevens company.<\/p>\n \n\tBlack stated: \u201cLilly Valentine was the first character I ever created, and readers couldn\u2019t get enough of her courage and her flaws in equal measure. She\u2019s a working class scrapper, a lawyer who won\u2019t give up on her clients and I love seeing characters like Lilly on TV; seemingly ordinary yet magnificent women with so much on their plate yet still the funniest people you\u2019ll meet. Having worked previously with Studio Crook\u2019s head of scripted Justine Potter on my first commission, I know that Lilly is in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMatt Crook, managing director of Studio Crook, added: \u201cLily Valentine is a force of nature, and from the first page of \u2018Damaged Goods\u2019 we knew we had to bring her to the screen. It\u2019s a pleasure to work with Helen Black on adapting her work, the series is just brilliantly entertaining, heartbreaking and universally relatable in equal measure which is exactly the type of story we want to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] The U.Okay.\u2019s Studio Crook has acquired the rights to develop \u201cDamaged Goods,\u201d the primary of Helen Black\u2019s \u201cLilly Valentine\u201d authorized e-book collection, right into a returning tv drama collection \u201cValentine\u201d (6 x 60\u2019). \u201cValentine\u201d will observe Lilly Valentine, an virtually divorced single mom on the fallacious aspect of 40 who excels at her job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}