The news was broken in June 2023 that a reimagined adaptation of the classic Enid Blyton children’s book series The Famous Five for the BBC and ZDF was taking place by Nicolas Winding Refn as creator and executive producer.
Other executive producers include Read and Bouch, Will Gould, Frith Tiplady, Christina Bostofte Erritzøe, and Kimberly Willming.
The project is executive produced by Refn for byNWR and Matthew Read for Moonage Pictures, in co-production with ZDF.
The Five would be played by Diaana Babnicova, Elliott Rose, Kit Rakusen and Flora Jacoby Richardson, completed by a Bearded Collie cross named Kip.
[7] Jemima Rooper, who played George in the 1995 television series, guest starred as Angela Clutterbuck in episode 4.