Simon Cowell to Produce 'DOWNTON ABBEY' Style Drama for The BBC

The UK Mirror reports that Simon Cowell is currently developing a 'Downton Abbey' Style period drama series for the BBC through his Production Company Syco TV. According to the report, the series will take place in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital during the Victorian era.

The series will be based on real-life stories of the prison during the 19th century. The tales were made public and became a popular e-book in 2011, after the institution released historic archives from their record books.

The drama will follow, a group of "psychiatric patients including William Chester Minor, a murderer who became a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary while at Broadmoor, and Christiana Edmunds, the notorious Chocolate Cream Poisoner."

Damien Timmer, joint managing director of Mammoth commented, "The stories of the staff and inmates are engrossing and often deeply moving, and they are shot through with a very English eccentricity and dark sense of humour."

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