These could be stories which involve new characters and their worlds, or expand and enrich existing BBC brands.

We want to know whether this type of storytelling connects with audiences, particularly younger audiences, and if so then whether tools like Charisma can facilitate the production of interactive stories. So when the BBC’s R&D department approached us as they were looking for writers for an AI storytelling project, involving a new product called Charisma, we jumped at the chance to be involved.

From the VR partnership, one of the writers went on to create the Doctor Who VR Experience ‘The Runaway’. BBC Writersroom has previously developed and produced the award-winning The Last Hours of Laura K as well as partnering with the BBC’s Virtual Reality Hub, to offer writers the chance to explore and develop stories in new and evolving mediums. The 27-year-old, who is currently serving a 10 year sentence for the 2015 crime that gripped the nation's attention, detailed the disturbing details of her childhood and the depths of her mother's deception for the film, going on to sit down for an exclusive interview with ABC News a year later.Īnd now, King and Patricia Arquette (taking on the role of Dee Dee) are bringing the true story of Dee Dee and Gypsy and their horrifying little pink house of secrets to Hulu in The Act, which premiered on March 20 and airs new episodes on Wednesdays.At BBC Writersroom we have always been interested in new forms of storytelling and what effect they could have on the evolution of scripted narratives for broadcast to a mass audience. The Kissing Booth star credited watching Mommy Dead and Dearest, the HBO documentary released in 2017, ' no less than ten times' as one of her main sources of inspiration and guidance as she prepared to play Gypsy, the young woman who planned the murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard after suffering years of medical child abuse.

It was the perfect act, according to Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose shocking story of Munchausen by proxy and matricide once again making headlines thanks to Joey King's portrayal of her in a new limited series. 'People thought of us as the sweetest mother-daughter family ever.'

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