ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIP
A curated slate of original romantic vertical dramas available for option, licence, sale, or selective development.
Materials are available under NDA.
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PRIVATE MESSAGES
After joining an anonymous online support group, a lonely woman begins a passionate affair with a man she knows only by an alias—until she discovers he is secretly married to the sister she has not spoken to in years.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Intimate | Secretive | Emotional | Volatile
Setting: Contemporary London
Status: Designed for multiple series | Fully-written 60-episode script and series bible available under NDA | Also suited for film adaptation
LEAVE WITH ME
Hours before marrying wealthy and controlling Alexander Dupont, Emilia Hart disappears with Connor Vale, the struggling musician hired to play her pre-wedding celebration, triggering a scandalous escape that turns forbidden attraction into a fight for freedom.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Romantic | Urgent | Scandalous | Emotional
Setting: Contemporary luxury, urban, and roadside locations
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA | Also suited for film adaptation
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
A rising lawyer enters a secret arrangement where obedience brings success, disobedience brings punishment, and the man she loves controls them both.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Seductive | Dangerous | Addictive | Volatile
Setting: Contemporary urban locations
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
THE SELECTION
When seven women move into a billionaire’s mansion to compete for marriage, an overlooked finalist discovers she was chosen for a far darker reason than love.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Melodrama
Tone: Glossy | Seductive | Competitive | Unsettling
Setting: Contemporary luxury mansion and high-end domestic interiors
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
MOTHER OF THE BRIDE
When a woman announces her engagement to a rising actor, her perfect future collapses when her mother recognises him as the same younger lover she has been secretly unable to let go.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Melodrama
Tone: Scandalous | Intimate | Betraying | Addictive
Setting: Contemporary luxury, domestic, and professional locations
Status: Designed for multiple series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
THE GIRL IN THE VIDEO
After a private video is leaked from a house party, an eighteen-year-old college applicant must survive public humiliation, friendship betrayal, and a dangerous romance with the one boy tied to the people who ruined her.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Raw | Intimate | Wounding | Defiant
Setting: School and domestic locations
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
TERMS OF LOVE
When a rising brand executive joins an elite dating platform for the wealthy, she begins a passionate affair with a powerful investor, only to discover the app is secretly profiling its users, engineering desire, and turning private intimacy into a weapon of influence.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Erotic Romantic Thriller
Tone: Glamorous | Seductive | Controlled | Predatory
Setting: London and contemporary urban locations
Status: Designed for multiple series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
EVERYONE KNEW
When a devoted fiancée discovers that everyone around her knew her partner had fathered a child years earlier except her, the only man willing to tell her the full truth is the child’s uncle—sparking an intimacy that could destroy two families.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Melodrama
Tone: Intimate | Betrayed | Emotional | Messy
Setting: Contemporary suburban and family locations
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
SAFE PLACE
When a woman trapped in an abusive relationship seeks counselling, she finds safety in the one man she can never have, until their growing bond becomes a forbidden love that could cost him his career and her any chance of escape.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Intimate | Forbidden | Dangerous | Emotional
Setting: Contemporary urban counselling, domestic, and professional locations
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA | Also suited for film adaptation
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
THE OTHER HOUSE
A woman preparing to start a family discovers her husband secretly owns another house across town where a woman and child believe he belongs to them.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Thriller
Tone: Intimate | Suspicious | Emotional | Dangerous
Setting: Contemporary suburban locations
Status: Designed for multiple series | Full series bible available under NDA | Also suited for film adaptation
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS
A personal trainer’s side hustle as a paid companion spirals into a seductive double life of money, sex, and scandal in modern London.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Thriller
Tone: Seductive | Scandalous | Intimate | Dangerous
Setting: Contemporary urban locations
Status: Designed for multiple series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
BEST FRIEND'S HUSBAND
After a public breakup, an influencer moves into her friend’s London townhouse and begins a secret affair with her husband—exposing contracts and fertility scheme.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Thriller
Tone: Scandalous | Manipulative | Addictive | Unapologetic
Setting: London and contemporary urban locations
Status: IN DEVELOPMENT
THE CONTRACT WIFE
To secure control of his family empire, a ruthless property developer enters a contract marriage to satisfy his grandfather’s Will, until real love and a devastating illness threaten to destroy the arrangement.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Thriller
Tone: Glamorous | Manipulative | Intimate | Volatile
Setting: Contemporary urban locations
Status: Designed for multiple series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
THE MISSING BRIDE
When a bride disappears the day before her wedding, everyone believes she fled with cold feet—unaware she is being secretly held by the ex-boyfriend who refuses to let her start a new life.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Thriller
Tone: Intimate | Tense | Volatile | Suspicious
Setting: Contemporary urban locations
Status: Designed for multiple series | Full series bible available under NDA | Also suited for film adaptation
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
QUEENS OF DECEIT
When two rival businesswomen wage war for control, their private lives unravel into a web of affairs, blackmail, and betrayals that threatens to destroy everyone around them.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Thriller
Tone: Glamorous | Ruthless I Intimate | Volatile.
Setting: Contemporary urban locations
Status: Designed for multiple series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
LOVE, LIES & LONDON
Five glamorous women discover they are all involved with the same powerful London developer—triggering a ruthless emotional war of betrayal, leverage, and revenge.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Glamorous | Intimate | Over-the-top | Shamelessly melodramatic
Setting: London and contemporary locations
Status: Designed for multiple series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
THE SUBSTITUTE
When a woman is paid to impersonate a missing tech CEO’s wife, she falls for the man she’s deceiving—until the real woman returns with a plan that could destroy them both.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Intimate | Deceptive | Tense | Addictive
Setting: Contemporary urban locations
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA | Also suited for film adaptation
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
TOO SOON
When a widowed TV star begins a private relationship, a moment of exposure turns their love into a public trial over who decides when mourning is over.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Intimate | Judgemental | Emotionally fraught | Unforgiving
Setting: Contemporary urban locations
Status: Finite series
OPTIONED
THE WRONG WOMAN
After betraying her best friend for the same man, a woman becomes mother to the child her betrayal helped orphan — facing relentless guilt, exposure, and the painful price of loving the wrong man.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Melodrama
Tone: Devastating | Intimate | Guilt-driven | Redemptive
Setting: Contemporary urban locations
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE
After returning from military service, a woman discovers her husband has vanished with their children — and that a devastating lie about her fidelity has turned her family against her, forcing her to clear her name before she loses them forever.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Emotional | Suspenseful | Grounded | Earnest
Setting: Contemporary small town location
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA | Also suited for film adaptation
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
IF ONLY THEY KNEW
Paired on a writing assignment, a recently divorced woman and a younger man form a private bond that deepens into something dangerous—not because it’s wrong, but because being seen together could destroy the lives they’ve carefully rebuilt.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Secretive | Emotional | Intimate | Restrained
Setting: Contemporary small town location
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
THE COTTAGE NEXT DOOR
A woman who has put her life on hold to care for her mother forms a quiet bond with the man next door—unaware that his reason for being there could change the village she cannot leave.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Romantic Drama
Tone: Restrained | Intimate | Watchful | Moral
Setting: Contemporary village location
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.
THE OTHER PARENT
A widow’s fragile life collapses when her late husband’s Will reveals a secret child, forcing two families to confront truth, guilt, and belonging in a rural village.
Format: 60 X 60-90 seconds
Genre: Family Drama
Tone: Intimate | Hopeful | Quietly Devastating | Moral
Setting: Contemporary village location
Status: Finite series | Full series bible available under NDA
Available for option, licence, sale, and selected commissioned development.