A brand new homicide thriller is coming to tv.
Left Financial institution Footage — the producer of “The Crown” — is spearheading a brand new true crime collection on ITV, titled “The Lady.” The collection will inform the story of Jane Andrews, the convicted killer and former dresser to the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.
The four-part drama will provide a “partially fictionalized” account of Andrews’ life and the way she went from being a trusted confidant of a royal member of the family to a convicted assassin in 2001 for the 2000 stabbing of her lover Thomas Cressman.
The upcoming present shall be written by Debbie O’Malley and directed by Lee Haven Jones. “The Crown” producer Florence Haddon-Cave has additionally signed on as an govt producer.
Per the present’s description, “’The Lady’ charts the rise and fall of former royal dresser Jane Andrews, whose rags-to-riches fairy tale fell apart when she was convicted of murder.”
“Debbie’s compelling and brilliant scripts re-evaluate what we think we know of Jane Andrews and the events that led to the tragic end of Thomas Cressman’s life,” Helen Ziegler, who’s overseeing the manufacturing of the collection on behalf of ITV and ITVX, stated in an announcement on Wednesday.
ITV has coated Andrews’ story earlier than. In 2020, the community launched a documentary about her case referred to as “Fergie’s Killer Dresser: The Jane Andrews Story.”
Andrews garnered the nickname “the fatal attraction killer” after having labored for the Duchess of York for practically a decade on the time of Cressman’s homicide.
Andrews reportedly landed the job at Buckingham Palace after she answered an nameless commercial seeking a private dresser posted in “The Lady” journal. Six months later, Ferguson employed Andrews at simply 21 years outdated.
Andrews and Ferguson allegedly hit it off instantly, with the duchess even giving Andrews the affectionate nickname “Lady Jane.”
Nonetheless, throughout the homicide trial, Andrews was portrayed as a relentless social climber who was obsessive about the royal and tried to repeat every part about her.
In 1998, Andrews started a romantic affair with Cressman, a former stockbroker. In September 2000, the pair went on trip collectively the place Cressman reportedly rejected the thought of marrying Andrews. As soon as dwelling, the previous couple argued and Cressman referred to as the cops fearing for his security. After they went to mattress, Andrews hit Cressman with a cricket bat and stabbed him to loss of life with a kitchen knife.
Throughout her homicide trial, Andrews was additionally identified with borderline character dysfunction. She was sentenced to life in jail; nonetheless, she was launched in June 2015, despatched again in 2018 for a separate alleged incident and re-released in August 2019.
