{"id":80169,"date":"2025-08-19T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80169\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:01:09","slug":"channel-4-going-inside-10-downing-street-in-steven-moffat-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80169\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 Going Inside 10 Downing Street In Steven Moffat Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSherlock writer Steven Moffat<\/a> is opening the doors to 10 Downing Street in a drama for Channel 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe UK\u2019s most famous residency will be the subject of Number 10<\/a>, which comes from Moffat\u2019s ITV Studios-owned production house, Hartswood Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show is, in effect, an Upstairs Downstairs-style drama looking to the activities of many people inside the property, which houses the British Prime Minister and their family during their terms. Politics will be put to aside as Moffat focuses on the fictional personalities that make up the home.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer the synopsis: \u201c10 Downing Street. There\u2019s a Prime Minister in the attic, a coffee bar in the basement, and a wallpapered labyrinth of romance, crisis and heartbreak in-between. Set in the only terrace house in history with mice and a nuclear deterrent, it\u2019s the only knock-through in the world where a hangover can start a war.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe government will be\u00a0fictional, but the problems will be real. We\u2019ll never know which party is in power, because once the whole world hits the fan it barely matters. This is a show about the building and everyone inside. Not just the Prime Minister upstairs, but the conspiracy theorist who runs the cafe three floors below, the man who repairs the lift that never works, the madly ambitious \u2018advisors\u2019 fighting for office space in cupboards. Oh, and of course, the cat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMoffat, whose credits include Doctor Who and Coupling, will exec produce alongside his wife and Hartswood co-chief, Sue Vertue, with Lawrence Till (The Devil\u2019s Hour, The Young Offenders) as the producer. The director is Ben Palmer (Douglas is Cancelled, The Inbetweeners). Gwawr Lloyd, Acting Head of Channel 4 Drama, commissioned Number 10.<\/p>\n

\n\tHartswood will produce in association with ITV Studios, which has international distribution rights. Casting and launch details will follow \u201cin due course.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVertue said Number 10 was a \u201cpassion project for Steven,\u201d noting: \u201cHe says there are three famous doors in the world: he\u2019s done 221B Baker Street and the TARDIS \u2013 now he\u2019s going to do the real one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChannel 4\u2019s Lloyd said: \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be bringing Number 10 to Channel 4, a bold, brilliant and witty new drama from the exceptional mind of Steven Moffat and the powerhouse team at Hartswood Films. Number 10 will offer a rare glimpse behind the doors of the world\u2019s most iconic political residences which will take viewers from the high-stakes decisions of leadership to the lives of the staff who keep the house running. An insightful and entertaining twist on a state of the nation drama.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe order comes on the first morning of the Edinburgh<\/a> TV Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sherlock writer Steven Moffat is opening the doors to 10 Downing Street in a drama for Channel 4.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,30112,58385,60884,134,60984,60985,60986,427],"class_list":["post-80169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-channel-4","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-tv-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-hartswood-films","tag-number-10","tag-steven-moffat","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}