Karen Thrussell is now a member “A Very British Scandal”Blueprint Television’s producer will be the head of television. She will be responsible for all series’ development and production.
Thrussell will replace Dominic Treadwell–Collins who is now the Happy Prince drama label under ITV Studios. She is a Mammoth Screen veteran, having produced five seasons of BAFTA-winning series. “Poldark”The Sarah Phelps Agatha Christie adaptations “And Then There Were None,” “Ordeal by Innocence”And “The Witness for the Prosecution”BBC One.
Blueprint Television is a sister company to Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin’s Blueprint Pictures (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”). Blueprint Television also produced Emmy- and BAFTA-winning series “A Very English Scandal”(2018). Starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw. “A Very British Scandal,”The movie starring Claire Foy & Paul Bettany aired on BBC One in the U.K. December 2021. It will be available on Amazon Prime Video for the U.S. and Canada in 2022.
Thrussell said: “Blueprint Pictures work with some of the greatest talent from around the globe and produce beautiful, top quality film and TV so the opportunity of joining the team seemed too good to miss. I am very excited to be heading the TV side of the company and helping generate many more exquisite, high end programs.”
Broadbent, Czernin and Blueprint managing director Diarmuid McKeown, said: “Karen is a hugely talented executive producer and we feel very lucky to be working with her. No one could be more suited to leading the next phase of Blueprint’s expansion into series.”