Last Tango in... Le Havre?

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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(Image credit: BBC/Red Productions/Helen Turton)

Last Tango In Halifax, starring Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid, is to be remade for French audiences.

The award-winning BBC One romantic drama, starring the pair as childhood sweethearts Alan and Celia, will be adapted by BBC Worldwide and their French partner Newen to develop a Gallic version of the show, consisting of six hour-long episodes.

Written and created by Sally Wainwright, Last Tango In Halifax follows the widowed septuagenarians as they attempt to rekindle their romance when they're reunited after 60 years apart.

Sarah Lancashire, Ronni Ancona and Nicola Walker also star in the UK version of the show.

Jean-Louis Blot, director BBC Worldwide France, said: "We are excited to work with Newen to develop and co-produce Last Tango In Halifax. This is the beginning of a collaboration we hope is long and successful."

A third series of Last Tango in Halifax has been commissioned, and is expected to screen in the UK later this year.

 

– Press Association

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.