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 is currently adapting Alex Hay’s critically acclaimed 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 is also currently writing an original, returnable drama for Gaze/Anton Corp. She is also in development on an original crime thriller TV series with the Emmy winning producers Richard Yee and Krish Majumdar producing for Me+You and Fremantle. Before this, 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.
Work
Current
Title TBA
Miramax
Book adaptation in development
Hidden Lies
ShinAwil
Book adaptation in development
Title TBA
Corestar Media
Book adaptation in development
Title TBA
Me + You Productions
Original and returnable TV series in development
Yes!
925 Productions / RTÉ
6 x 30′ drama in development
Murphy's Law
ShinAwil / Screen Ireland
6 x 30′ end-of-days adventure comedy drama in development
Loyal
Ripple World / Screen Ireland
An original and returnable (6 x 60′) spy-thriller TV series
Film and TV
Clean Sweep
ShinAwiL / Element 8
1 x 60’ episode and S1 storylining on the new, returnable crime drama with showrunner, Gary Tieche (Sony/AMC’s Preacher). Aired in 2023.
Blue Lights
Two Cities TV / BBC
Associate Producer, screenwriter 2 x 60′ episodes, and story-lining S1 / writers room
Broadcast on BBC One from 27th March 2023
North Sea Connection
RTÉ / Viaplay
1 x 60′ episode, aired September 2022
Distributed by A&E Networks.