'Cat-and-mouse' thriller for BBC America

Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge is to write a dramatic thriller for American TV.

BBC America has commissioned her to create an eight-episode series of Killing Eve, which will premiere in the States in 2018.

She will serve as showrunner and executive producer, Hollywood trade press are reporting.

The series based on the the novellas by Luke Jennings, about Villanelle, a psychopathic assassin and Eve, the bored, smart,desk-bound agent charged with hunting her down. 

‘Killing Eve is a brilliantly fresh take on the cat and mouse thriller from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, a major new talent in television,’ said BBC America president Sarah Barnett. 

‘Underneath the deceptively simple and entertaining surface is a subversive, funny, obsessive relationship between two women, that plays out across some of the most and least glamorous locations imaginable.’

The series is described as a combination of brutal mischief-making and pathos with sharp humor, originality and high-stakes action.

Fleabag and Waller-Bridge have just been nominated for Critics’ Choice Awards in the states.

Published: 15 Nov 2016