Being Erica fans - you might get two Being Erica shows! UK to make another Being Erica

While Being Erica already airs in the UK they still plan on remaking it.. while hopefully keeping the original
Big Talk Productions is planning a “rough and ready” UK version of Canadian drama Being Erica - swapping the title character’s therapist for an NHS worker and relocating the action from Toronto to Glasgow.

Originally produced by Temple Street Productions, the show centres on a 30-something woman who is able to go back in time and fix her past mistakes. It was originally produced for CBC and BBC Worldwide, and acquired by E4 in the UK.

Big Talk picked up the changed format rights from BBCW at the 2009 Showcase and is developing the show with BBC Scotland under the working title You Again.It is eyed as a 6 x 60-minute series for BBC1.

Big Talk chief executive Kenton Allen said the Being Erica creators would have a consultancy position on the show but were “very keen we make a local version for the UK”.

Nicole Taylor (Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, Ashes To Ashes) is penning the scripts, which will recast Erica as a Scot called Zoe and replace her “touchy feely” therapist with a “crabby” NHS employee.

Big Talk head of drama Luke Alkin, who is lined up to executive produce the series, said: “It is a high-concept way of dealing with low-concept issues like relationships and growing up in a family. It is not a typical time-travel show because it is not about discovering the past so much as discovering who you were in the past.”

Taylor’s agent, Joe Philips at Curtis Brown, added: “It is high concept, à la Life On Mars, but with a more attuned emotional heart. It manages to hit all those emotional beats but it is always funny.”

BBC Scotland head of drama Anne Mensah and producer Matthew Read are lined up to work on the series.

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