Rose Ayling-Ellis is heading a TV adaptation of Will Dean's first Tuva Moodyson novel--Dark Pines, about a deaf journalist--that is in development with Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures. Deadline reported that Ayling-Ellis is also exec producing TUVA, its working title, a six-part crime thriller that will move the action from Sweden to the U.K.
The former EastEnders star "became the first deaf winner of Strictly Come Dancing in 2021 and has since landed roles in the likes of ITV's Code of Silence," Deadline noted. She is exec-producing with Belinda Campbell, Caroline Skinner and the show's writer Charlotte Jones (The Halcyon).
"As soon as I read Charlotte's scripts and then dived further into Will's books, I just knew this was a role I wanted to play and a world I wanted to explore," said Ayling-Ellis.
Red Planet has acquired the rights to all novels in the Moodyson crime series.