Element 8 Entertainment

Miss Scarlet & The Duke

Created and written by Rachael New and now airing on PBS Masterpiece and UKTV’s Alibi, this popular series has built an international audience as it wraps a Victorian era mystery and romance around one of the great female characters — Eliza Scarlet, London’s first female detective, played by Kate Phillips. Opposite her as Scotland Yard inspector William “ Duke” Wellington is Stuart Martin.  Eliza is a woman determined to have it all in this smart, witty and deeply engrossing series.

Clean Sweep

Written by Gary Tieche, Clean Sweep is a breathtaking drama about a seemingly ordinary Irish housewife, Shelly Mohan, the wife of a Guarda detective and mother of three, who wants nothing more than to hold her family together. However, long hidden secrets emerge, and she commits a murder to bury her past. The pressure builds as her husband is leading the investigation in the case. Starring Charlene McKenna and Barry Ward, the series is a co-production with ShinAwiL and Incendo.

Comming soon

Blood

Written by Nizar Wattad, is a complex, crime drama set in Amman, Jordan. This is the real Middle East, a fraught, teeming city with problems that we tend to ascribe to the Western World. It is the story of childhood friends who took very different paths, and whose lives are now reconnecting in a complex web of crime and long-held secrets. Oscar nominated director Hany Abu-Assad (PARADISE NOW; OMAR; THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US) is attached to direct. 

Mountain Dark

In partnership with Sunder Aaron’s Locomotive Global,  Mountain Dark is an Indian drama like no other, set in Himachal, with a protagonist who is freshly out of prison and dealing with his own psychological issues.  It is a very human story, but one that expands to confront a powerful family that controls one of the biggest pharmaceutical corporations in India.  And a series of murders and unexplained deaths lead a shocking but inescapable conclusion.

Stryx

STRYX is rotoscope series for television based on the internationally acclaimed graphic novel series  “LE CHANT DES STRYGES” by Eric Corbeyran and in n partnership with AT Prod and Safiar64.  It explores  how humanity copes with the discovery that they may not be the most dominant species on Earth and the simple and frightening premise that there is ANOTHER SPECIES co-existing with ours hiding in the shadows. “Stryx” is an action suspense thriller, international in scope and tone, set in a speculative-fiction world that resembles our own in every way…except one.