Blumhouse Television to adapt Battersea Poltergeist podcast
The production company will create two series about Shirley Hitchings who was supposedly terrorised by a spirit in the 1950s.
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Blumhouse Television is to develop two TV series about the famous 1956 poltergeist haunting in Battersea.
They will team up with Michael Seitzman’s Maniac Productions to create a scripted series and a companion documentary series, which will be titled The Battersea Poltergeist and Blumhouse’s Ghost Story respectively.
Both will serve as adaptations of Danny Robins’ hit BBC Radio 4 podcast The Battersea Poltergeist which Blumhouse won the rights to after a fierce bidding war.
Featuring the voice talents of Logan’s Dafne Keen and Toby Jones, it explores the strange case of Shirley Hitchings who claims to have been plagued by a poltergeist for 12 years at her former home in Battersea.
The podcast first launched in January of this year and quickly became a success. It reached the number one spot on Apple’s worldwide podcast chart and has seen nearly 3 million streams.
“From our first listen to Danny’s captivating podcast, we were hooked and could easily envision how to bring the story to life – in both scripted and unscripted formats – for television viewers,” Chris McCumber president of Blumhouse Television.
“We’re very grateful to Michael Seitzman for identifying the project early on, and championing it so aggressively.”
Source: Slash Film