New Hardacre TV series

The major new television period drama, The Hardacres, broadcast in the UK on Channel 5, is inspired by CL Skelton’s Hardacre family saga books, published by Wyndham Books.

The Hardacres is produced by Playground Entertainment, the production company behind the successful reboot of All Creatures Great and Small, also showing on Channel 5. International broadcasting rights to The Hardacres are currently being sold.

Wyndham Books has published Hardacre since 2014, followed by Hardacre’s Luck, and then CL Skelton’s other novels. Hardacre was a bestseller in the 1970s and after many decades out of print was rediscovered by Wyndham Books founder Ian Skillicorn, who acquired the publishing rights from the author’s literary estate.

Ian says: “The original blockbuster novel has captivated generations of readers. While there are of course some differences in characters and plot between the book and the television series, it’s wonderful that the spellbinding story of the Hardacres can now be enjoyed both on the page and the screen.”