Newly-launched free streaming channel ITVX has commissioned an adaptation by Paula Milne of Louise Doughty”s bestselling novel, Platform 7, from Dancing Ledge Productions.

The 4 x 60 series centres on Lisa who, after witnessing a cataclysmic event on platform 7 of a railway station, finds her own fragmented memory jogged to reveal a connection between her own life and that of the event she has just witnessed.

Dancing Ledge MD Chris Carey and CEO Laurence Bowen will executive produce the drama alongside Kate Triggs. Rosalie Carew produces; Sarah Walker directs. It will premiere on ITVX before tx”ing on ITV further down the line.

Dancing Ledge previously adapted Louise Doughty”s novel Crossfire, which filmed last year for BBC One.

Milne said: “This is no traditional ‘spooky” ghost story. It”s the tale of a ghost on a quest to discover who she was and the events that led to her untimely death. Her story is a celebration of indignation versus passivity and truth versus lies.

“While writing it from Louise Doughty”s astute and emotionally intelligent novel, I began to feel she”s the ghost in all of us; the unseen part of us when we find ourselves reflecting on the wisdom of our past decisions. Sometimes with regret, occasionally with rancour but more often with the complicated relish of what it means to be human.”

Carey added: “We”re thrilled to be adapting Louise Doughty”s celebrated novel ‘Platform 7” for television. The story weaves together themes of love and control in a truly original way. Part revenge story, part love story, part murder mystery this nail-biting drama forces us to consider whether we can truly know the people closest to us. With Paula Milne adapting and Sarah Walker directing, this is going to offer something truly unique.”

Dancing Ledge also has a second series of The Responder in the pipeline and is also preparing Domino Day, a 6 x 45 about a young witch for BBC Three.