Katrina Grant has been named director of development for entertainment at U.K. indie Expectation, focusing on talent-led programming, reality, game shows, fact-ent and unscripted comedy.

The new unscripted format development opportunity backed by the BBC and NBCUniversal has selected a co-production from Expectation and Plegazoid as the winning candidate.

BBC Arts has commissioned a three-part series on Charles Dickens from Expectation in partnership with The Open University for broadcast later this year on BBC Two and iPlayer.

Sky has slated an adaptation of the Frankie Boyle bestselling novel Meantime, with James McAvoy set to star in the comic crime thriller from Happy Tramp North and Expectation in association with Sky Studios.

The Swan, the controversial makeover series that ran for one season on FOX in 2004, is being explored in a new series from Expectation for Hulu.