Sky Arts is planning a follow-up to its 'Theatre Live!' series with a new show that being described as a successor to the old BBC strand 'Play For Today'. Sandi Toksvig, founder and AD of 'Theatre Live!' is working on the new venture, which will feature the work of established playwrights, broadcast live. The Stage quote a production source as saying: "Sky Arts is going again with another series of a very similar nature [to Theatre Live!]. It will be live drama, with six new plays and six writers. But there are various versions flying around about what format the series will take. They are planning to box fairly high in terms of who they approach, which would be very exciting".

It's thought that high profile writers such as David Edgar and Willy Russell have been approached to write material for the project.