Channel 4 confirms Flowers pilot

Channel 4 can confirm that they have commissioned a non-TX pilot of Flowers, starring Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt.

Flowers is an imaginative and visually stunning narrative comedy about an eccentric family struggling to hold themselves together. Maurice (author of children’s books The Grubbs) and Deborah (music teacher) are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's mother, Hattie, and their twenty five year old twins Amy and Donald in a creaky, messy, crumbling old house.

Writer Will Sharpe turns his attention to Flowers fresh from his debut feature Black Pond which was nominated for Outstanding Debut (BAFTA), Best First Feature (Writer’s Guild Awards), The Guardian First Film Award, Best Comedy (Evening Standard Film Awards) and the Raindance Award (BIFAs). It won Best Newcomer (Evening Standard Films Awards) and the Discovery Award (LOCO Film Festival).

The 30 minute non-TX pilot is produced by Kudos (Utopia, Broadchurch, The Hour, Hustle, Life on Mars, Spooks)