Paramount+ has boarded the BBC and CBS Studios’ upcoming Daybreak French sitcom Can You Preserve A Secret?.
The streamer has taken U.S. rights to the comedy, with Paramount World Content material Distribution promoting around the globe.
In Can You Preserve a Secret?, British comedy icon French performs domineering grandma Debbie Fendon, a lady who will cease at nothing to guard her household. When her hermit-like husband William (Mark Heap) unexpectedly dies, she makes an outlandish resolution that may put the household underneath extra stress than ever earlier than. The present additionally stars Craig Roberts and Mandip Gill.
The BBC and CBS Studios are already combining on James Norton-starring historic epic King and Conqueror. Huge Speak Studios can be behind Can You Preserve a Secret? together with creator Simon Mayhew-Archer’s Mayhay Studios.
The BBC will probably be delighted with the Paramount+ deal. The beginning of 2025 has been characterised by the American co-pro market drying up and the BBC has itself admitted in latest months that it’s struggling to totally fund exhibits on account of an absence of American cash.
Can You Preserve a Secret? is EP’d by Kenton Allen, Mayhew-Archer, French and Toby Welch, with Simon Hynd set to direct. Written and created by Mayhew-Archer, the sequence will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One within the U.Ok. and Paramount+ within the U.S.
