Creator of Danish political series Adam Price teams up with peer and author Lord Dobbs for a 'very major project'

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House of Cards author Lord (Michael) Dobbs is working on a new television drama with Borgen creator Adam Price in what he called "a very major project".

The Tory peer, whose political thriller was adapted into a BBC television series and more recently an American version starring Kevin Spacey, said the collaboration is expected to hit screens in 2014.

Dobbs said he believed British political drama had not been on top form lately, but said it was by no means dead.

Lord Dobbs. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Speaking on The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4, he said: "I think it's gone through a period where perhaps it hasn't hit the high spots, but I have to say I'm very excited.

"Adam Price, the creator of Borgen – that wonderful Danish political drama – and he and I have got together and we are now working on a very major project which hopefully will be on BBC screens next year. House of Cards meets Borgen, I mean it's a pretty good pedigree."

Dobbs, who has written plays including The Turning Point and A Family Affair, admitted he would like to embark on a play specifically about Denis Thatcher.

"I tell you what I would love to do – the real story of Denis Thatcher. What a brilliant, brilliant character to base a play on.

"A man without whom Maggie could not have survived and done as well as she did, but who really has been misunderstood, and is wonderfully strong.

"I'd love to do that," he said.