IN FLIGHT

UK network Channel 4 has boarded a crime drama starring Katherine Kelly about a single mother who is blackmailed into smuggling drugs.

Filming on the six-part In Flight is underway, with Kelly (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, The Long Shadow) playing an air hostess who is forced to take desperate measures after her son is arrested. Alongside Channel 4, Prosieben has acquired rights to Germany, SBS for Australia and TVNZ for New Zealand. Fremantle is handling international distribution.

Mike Walden (Marcella, Whistable Pearl) and Adam Randall (Slow Horses, iBoy) are the writers and Chris Baugh (Wreck, Tin Star) is the director. Buccaneer Media is producing.