Writer
Fran Harris is a screenwriter and TV series creator, with a background in development and distribution at Warner Bros, Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox.
Fran has just partnered with Dame Prue Leith’s production company to adapt Leith’s romantic novel A SERVING OF SCANDAL for TV. This follows her adaptation of Alex Hay’s critically acclaimed period heist novel THE HOUSEKEEPERS as a returnable TV series for Miramax. Before this, she was in Miramax’s writers room for the TV adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s THE GENTLEMEN for Netflix. Fran has just developed and written an original, returnable police drama for Gaze Pictures/Anton Corp. She is currently in development on an original crime thriller TV series with the Emmy winning producers Richard Yee and Krish Majumdar for Me+You and Fremantle. Fran has also just received a development commission by RTE on an original relationship comedy-drama series YES! which is being produced by 925 Productions.
Fran co-wrote Season 1 of the BBC’s police drama BLUE LIGHTS with Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, produced by Two Cities TV. She was also in the writers room and wrote one episode for the RTE/BBC crime drama CLEAN SWEEP and the international crime thriller NORTH SEA CONNECTION, produced by Mopar Studios.
Book adaptation in development
Book adaptation in development
Original and returnable TV series in development, script commissioned
6×30′ drama in development with backing from RTÉ and Screen Ireland
6×30′ end-of-days adventure Dramedy in development
An original and returnable (6×60′) police drama
1×60′ episode and S1 storyline on the returnable crime drama with showrunner Gary Tieche (Sony/AMC’s Preacher), aired in 2023
Associate Producer, screenwriter 2×60′ episodes and story-lining S1/writers room
1×60′ episode, aired September 2022, distributed by A&E Networks
| Current | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| The Housekeepers | Miramax | Book adaptation in development |
| Hidden Lies | ShinAwil | Book adaptation in development |
| Title TBA | Me+You Productions / Fremantle | Original and returnable TV series in development, script commissioned |
| Yes! | 925 Productions/RTE | 6×30′ drama in development with backing from RTÉ and Screen Ireland |
| Murphy's Law | ShinAwil/Screen Ireland | 6×30′ end-of-days adventure Dramedy in development |
| Title TBA | Gaze Pictures/Anton | An original and returnable (6×60′) police drama
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| Film & TV | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Clean Sweep | ShinAwil/Element 8 | 1×60′ episode and S1 storyline on the returnable crime drama with showrunner Gary Tieche (Sony/AMC’s Preacher), aired in 2023 |
| Blue Lights | Two Cities TV/BBC | Associate Producer, screenwriter 2×60′ episodes and story-lining S1/writers room |
| North Sea Connection | RTE/Viaplay | 1×60′ episode, aired September 2022, distributed by A&E Networks |