Catapult Rights
Catapult Rights partners with literary agencies to place books with film and television. We have projects on or in development with all major channels and streaming platforms, working with both British producers and international buyers.
The Dark, the six-part ITV adaptation of G.R. Halliday’s From the Shadows, starring Laura Donnelly, launched 12 July.
Selected adaptations · broadcast & announced
Drama
Sarra Manning
A big-hearted beauty technician is recruited by MI5 to go undercover in an organised-crime operation run out of a Knightsbridge salon.
Drama
T.M. Logan
A university lecturer, tormented by a predatory boss, rescues a stranger’s daughter and is offered a chilling favour in return: one name, one phone call, and her problem disappears.
Drama
T.M. Logan
Framed for her husband’s murder and separated from her sons, a mother watches from the shadows and will stop at nothing to clear her name and reclaim her children.
Drama
Written by Sophie White
A darkly comic drama from Sophie White: a hedonistic young chef’s life spirals into psychosis and depression, with humour as her only life-raft.
A unique, honest, darkly comic voice for TV.
Ailish McElmeel, Deadpan Pictures
Drama
Written by Imran Mahmood
A crime thriller from criminal-barrister-turned-writer Imran Mahmood: a fatal intervention pulls a young medical student into the justice system, and the barrister defending him is hiding secrets of her own.
Drama
G.R. Halliday
Based on From the Shadows by G.R. Halliday
A body in a remote Highland community draws DI Monica Kennedy into the hunt for a killer who has been watching their victims, while a local social worker searches for a missing client.
Brilliantly gripping.
Polly Hill, ITV Director of Drama
Theatre
Tia Fisher
The stage adaptation of Tia Fisher’s acclaimed debut novel, developed with St George’s Theatre and toured across Norfolk and Suffolk with the Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
Drama
Beth O’Leary
A witty, emotionally tangled romantic comedy: two exes are forced to share a campervan to a wedding in Spain, confronting a buried history along the way.
Feature
Sophie Cousens
Sophie Cousens’ bestselling romantic comedy: born a minute apart on New Year’s Eve, Minnie and Quinn live worlds apart until fate keeps drawing them together.
Feature
B.A. Paris
Based on The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
After passing a stranded car on a stormy night, and later learning the driver was murdered, Cass is engulfed by memory loss, silent phone calls and the fear that she is being watched.
Feature
Mandy Baggot
Based on Desperately Seeking Summer by Mandy Baggot
Newly single and jobless, Abby escapes to Corfu to help her family’s struggling estate agency and finds an unexpected romance with a gardener who has secrets of his own.
Theatre
Jacob Dunne
Based on Right from Wrong by Jacob Dunne
James Graham’s stage adaptation of Jacob Dunne’s memoir: a single drunken punch in Nottingham kills a stranger, and the victim’s parents seek an unlikely reconciliation with the young man responsible.
James Graham’s most moving work yet.
Five stars, The Times
Documentary
A portrait of Karl Lagerfeld, one of fashion’s most flamboyant and enigmatic figures, weaving present-day investigation with rare archive to ask how well anyone really knew him.
Drama
T.M. Logan
A father becomes convinced his daughter’s charming fiancé is hiding something monstrous. As he digs into the young man’s past, he risks exposing secrets of his own.
Drama
Beth O’Leary
Tiffy and Leon share a one-bed flat on opposite shifts and have never met, until the perfect arrangement collides with obsessive exes, demanding clients and a wrongly imprisoned brother.
Documentary
The story behind one of the most contested episodes of the war in Afghanistan: Royal Marine Alexander Blackman’s killing of an unarmed insurgent, and the fight over his conviction.
Drama
T.M. Logan
Four friends share a luxury villa in the south of France, but one is having an affair with Kate’s husband, and someone may be prepared to kill to keep the secret.
Drama
Imran Mahmood
A young man stands accused of murder with all the evidence against him until, defending himself at trial, he tells an extraordinary story and asks the jury to believe him.
Feature
Phaedra Patrick
Estranged from his wife, Benedict’s ordered life is upended when his teenage niece arrives unannounced and may be the second chance he didn’t know he needed.
Feature
Beth Reekles
Elle’s secret romance with senior heart-throb Noah threatens her lifelong friendship with his younger brother, in the runaway Netflix teen comedy that became a trilogy.
About
Catapult Rights is the dramatic rights agency of Sheila David, placing books with film, television and stage on behalf of literary agents in the UK and the US.
Founder & Agent
Sheila has specialised in book-to-screen rights since 2006, including a decade building and leading the dramatic rights division at the Darley Anderson literary agencies. She works directly with studios, broadcasters and independent producers across the UK, the US and Europe.
Her adaptations have appeared on Netflix, the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, Paramount+, Hallmark and in cinemas. Credits include The Kissing Booth, You Don’t Know Me, The Flatshare, Blackwater Lane, This Time Next Year, James Graham’s Olivier Award–winning stage adaptation of Punch, and the BAFTA Scotland–nominated documentary War and Justice: The Case of Marine A.
Catapult represents dramatic rights across fiction and non-fiction, from commercial to literary. Its list ranges from pre-school titles and graphic novels to contemporary horror, fantasy and narrative non-fiction, with a focus on finding the right creative partners to bring exceptional stories to the screen.
Please note that we do not accept unsolicited submissions.
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