Skins co-creator Jamie Brittain, Ten Percent”s Abigail Wilson and historians Emma Dabiri and Simon Sebag Montefiore are among the creative team behind Sky History docu-drama The Royal Mob.

Nutopia”s four-part series, which chronicles the saga of the extended royal family stemming from Queen Victoria, has recruited the high-calibre talent line-up, under showrunner Tom Stubberfield (Belsen: Our Story).

Brittain, who devised Channel 4”s seminal coming-of-age series Skins and is a writer on Sky comedy Breeders, and Wilson – who helped pen the Amazon Prime original Ten Percent and whose credits also include recent ITVX comedy commission Ruby Speaking – are managing the show”s scripted elements.

Their work will be combined with the historical expertise of academic and broadcaster Dabiri (Hair Power: Me and My Afro), Young Stalin author Sebag Montefiore and academics Priya Atwal (Royals and Rebels) and Miranda Carter (Three Emperors).

Brittain said: “Rather than feeling constrained by the historical basis of the drama, I found it to be a genuine creative boon, and the team”s ability to squirrel out weird, wonderful and previously overlooked details meant helping to bring these vivid characters to life was an absolute pleasure.”

Told through the eyes of Queen Victoria”s favourite granddaughters, the four Hesse sisters – each of whom married into Europe”s royal courts – the series lifts the lid on the family tensions which saw millions plunged into the bloodiest war the world had ever known. Some Mothers Do ”Ave ”Em actor Michele Dotrice is attached to play Queen Victoria.

Producer Nutopia has experience in the docu-drama arena having previously produced 2019 Netflix original The Last Czars.

The series was announced as part of a six-title Sky docs slate in May and is due to air on the A+E Networks UK channel in November.

It follows A+E and Sky”s 72 Films” co-commission The Royal Bastards: Rise of The Tudors, which became Sky History”s biggest ever original in December and contributed to the network taking home the non-PSB channel of year gong at the Broadcast Digital Awards earlier this week.

Dan Korn, vice-president of programming for A+E, told Broadcast that docu-drama offers a “more expansive editorial range and scale” to tell historical stories, with more of these types of shows in the works.

“It gives us the opportunity to reach back deeper into historical periods where the contemporaneous accounts are ambiguous at best, as well, of course, the opportunity to envisage significant moments of historical discourse from entirely new perspectives,” he said.

“One of the many great benefits of working so closely with Sky is that they think big and are wonderfully ambitious and risk-taking when it comes to breaking new editorial ground. It”s a great partnership, creatively and commercially.”

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