Idris Elba is to present a BBC documentary about Britain’s knife crime epidemic

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“Hjack” star. Idris Elba is to present a new documentary for BBC British academic’s exploration of knife crime. “Idris Elba: A Year of Knife Crime” (working title) will see the star explore the reality of knife crime and potential solutions to solve it. As part of the doc, he will speak to the offenders, bereaved families, the police and even Prime Minister Keir Starmer as well as exploring his own life choices, which led him down a very different path.

“So many people dismiss knife crime as something that doesn’t affect them, assuming it’s an urban, black-and-brown gang problem — but that couldn’t be further from the truth,” Elba said. “White, middle class and rural areas are also affected, the perpetrators are getting younger and the fear is spreading. I hope that our film will go some way to changing these stereotypes and getting everyone involved in one of the greatest challenges of our time. For me, it’s been a tough year, but I have hope.”

The 60-minute documentary is produced by the production company Elba 22 cousinswhich he founded with producer Diene Petterle and directed by Ben Steele (“Bad Surgeon”). A release date has yet to be confirmed, but in the UK the documentary will be shown on the BBC and iPlayer.

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Sony Pictures Television (“SPT”) has launched a new production company, based in Belfast, called hot sauceled by journalists turned dramatists Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, best known for writing the BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings.

Lawn and Patterson will continue to be repped by United Agents in the UK and WME in the US