TV writingP Khatja Mayer It revealed that when the idea of the script was put to production companies as part of a plan for a book between the ages of 40 years, she was asked to make her female champion smaller than 20 years.
Mayer said Guardian A newspaper that supples its idea of multiple production companies With the UK arm support for the book laboratory program, its first enthusiasm turned into panic:
“You are thinking, my God, the scenario came out of a program for women over 40 years, and I am sitting here to be told that the only way to get it is to make the main woman 35? It was a tragic literal.”
Mayer says that she tried to say that her target audience of women over 50 years old will appreciate the story, but this fell on deaf ears.
In one of the stadiums, someone told me: “Yes, we do not really believe that women over 50 years old are” good fans, “as a laugh. “And you were like, are you kidding with me?”
Instead, Meier created her private company Zenka Films and borrowed money to finance filming in March 2024 from her pilot $ A 59 -year -old woman inherits a British mining company.
The director said Guardian She hopes to collect funds to make the series by launching the pilot to the independent broadcast service First.
The newspaper reported that women make up 23 % of creators from the original TV series in 2023/24 (numbers from the Women’s Study Center on TV and Films).