Masterpiece and Paramount’s UK network 5 are returning to the Scottish Highlands that entertained British audiences at the turn of this millennium.
They are behind a reimaging of Monarch of the Glen, the gentle BBC comedy-drama that ran between 2000 and 2005, starring Alastair Mackenzie as a young restaurateur trying to restore his childhood home.
The new version is made by the original producer, Ecosse Films, and Masterpiece PBS in association with Northern Ireland Screen and Banijay Rights, which is distributing the six-part series internationally. Production will take place in Scotland and Northern Ireland later this year. Development assistance came from The National Lottery through Screen Scotland.
The reboot will follow high-flying London lawyer Isla Campbell, who finds herself back at her family’s crumbling Highland estate for her estranged father’s funeral and discovers she has inherited a million-pound debt, a bank closing in, and a brother who
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