Overview
- See-Saw Films secured television rights to John Grant’s Lovejoy novels after a competitive bidding process.
- The company says the new series will strip away nostalgia and return to the books’ unrulier antihero spirit.
- The project is in development with no network or streamer attached, and casting has not been announced, including any involvement from Ian McShane.
- Executive producers named by See-Saw are Lisa Gilchrist, Helen Gregory, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Simon Gillis, with author John Grant and his agent Lisa Moylett also involved.
- The rights deal was negotiated by Simon Gillis and Laura Mazzola for See-Saw and Sheila David of Catapult Rights for Dr Grant, whose 24 Lovejoy books were previously adapted by the BBC from 1986 to 1994.