Inside the Box

Inside the Box is a Euroish drama series created by Shonda Rhimes that has been broadcast since 10th November 2016 on TV3. The series is a female-centric ensemble drama set in a Euro City network news bureau. The lead character is Catherine Righton, the young but hard-working lead presenter of the country's most trusted primetime news programme - ENN Tonight - who, with her colleagues, pursues "the story" at all costs while juggling their personal animosities and crises of conscience.

Development and production
The series was conceived by Rhimes in 2009, and was initially developed as an American production for ABC to be set in Washington, D.C. although the show's basic premise remained the same. The network declined to pick the series up that December.

In February 2015, Euroish television network TV3 signed a deal with Rhimes' production company Shondaland marking a step by the company into Euroish productions in association with the network, as well as the exclusive lifetime rights to their existing US productions.

The network immediately took an interest in the concept for Inside the Box and began discussions with the company about ways to localise the idea for production and broadcast in the Euro Republics. The show's setting was changed to Euro City and would use a primarily Euroish production team, with the show commisioned in July 2015. Patrick Cooper and Maxine Chambers were installed as developers for the series, overseeing it's successful transition to a Euroish series.

Whereas the character of Catherine was initally intended as a young producer, TV3 at first suggested making the character a highly respected "national treasure" newsreader, stating that it would lead the programme's story to be more action packed. This was later altered, with her character being a young producer suddenly thrown in the deep end when ENN's existing female newsreader goes on maternity leave and then defects to a rival network.

Janine Barlow, who played the character of Nina Cooper in TV3's soap Barcroft from 1999 to 2013 was cast as the show's main character, Catherine Righton, in September 2015. Complications star Andrew Gorman was cast as Patrick Knight, the much older senior presenter, whose "national treasure" status is defied in real life with his short fuse, controversial opinions and arrogant, self-serving attitude.

The series began filming in June 2016, with some scenes filmed in the week of transmission, in an effort to keep the show as topical as possible and with the opportunity to react the the major news stories of the week.