T.M. Logan’s ’29 Seconds’ Set For TV Adaptation By Frank Spotnitz’s Big Light & ‘One Piece’ Maker Tomorrow Studios

Thriller writer T.M. Logan’s 29 Seconds is being adapted into a limited TV drama series by Frank Spotnitz’s Big Light Productions as part of its first look with One Piece maker Tomorrow Studios.

Under working title One Name, the series will be penned by ITV’s The Confessions of Frannie Langton scribe Sara Collins, with Big Light seeking pre-sales at this week’s Mipcom Cannes.

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Published in 2018 by the prolific British author, 29 Seconds follows a lecturer at a top university whose intolerable and obsessive boss is making her life hell. Faced with a decision to leave and uproot her family, or continue to rebuff his persistent sexual advances, Sarah feels trapped, until an unexpected encounter with a powerful and dangerous man ends with her being owed a favour that could fix her problems forever.

“T.M. Logan is famed for his seriously addictive storytelling and gritty narratives that have audiences hooked worldwide, and 29 Seconds is no exception,” said The X Files EP Spotnitz. “It has three key things in abundance that make it perfect for an adaptation to a television drama – a sensational story, a strong IP with global appeal, and of course, it is hugely entertaining.”

One Name will be executive produced by Spotnitz and Elizabeth Kesses of EJK Productions alongside Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios. The optioning deal was brokered with Sheila David of Catapult Rights on behalf of Darley Anderson and Associates, Elizabeth Kesses and Chris Sutherland for Big Light Productions. T.M. Logan released 29 Seconds in 2018, published by Bonnier Zaffre.

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