New TV show on Hitchcock's 'The Birds' in the works

Legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock's film "The Birds" is all set to get a new TV adaptation.
The iconic 1963 film will be remade into a contemporary television drama, which will be written by Irish playwright and writer Conor McPherson, reported DigitalSpy.
The movie featured Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels, a wealthy San Francisco socialite, who follows a potential boyfriend to a small town in California where birds have started terrorising the residents.
Instead of California, the BBC version will be set in rural Cornwall, where a farmhand and his community is being terrorised by flocks of birds and seagulls shortly after the end of World War II.

Despite a few noticeable changes, the story will remain true to Daphne du Maurier's original 1952 novella of the same name.
The show will be produced by Heyday Television.