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TV PRODUCTIONS
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ENDEAVOUR
120 minute film for ITV1
Writer: Russell Lewis
Director: Colm McCarthy
Producer: Dan McCulloch
1965. The section house of an anonymous Midlands New Town. Detective Constable Endeavour Morse drafts his letter of resignation from the Police Force.
It is a letter he will never deliver. For fate, in the shape of a hunt for a missing schoolgirl, is about to draw Endeavour back, against his will, to the place which will shape, and, ultimately, define his destiny. Oxford.
Shaun Evans plays the iconic detective created by Colin Dexter and immortalised by John Thaw.
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MONROE
6 x 1 hours for ITV1
Writer: Peter Bowker
Directors: Paul McGuigan (Eps 1-3) & David Moore (Eps 4-6)
Producer: Jennie Scanlon
Gabriel Monroe is an unconventional but brilliant neurosurgeon in this drama created by Peter Bowker. The series explores Monroe's world both inside and outside St Matthew's hospital in Leeds, as medical emergencies cut across the lives of everyone involved from staff to patients and relatives. Monroe's equal and opposite is Jenny Bremner, a brilliant but reserved heart surgeon. Whilst Monroe does all he can to encourage his weak-stomached trainee Wilson and keep the ambitious Springer in check, Bremner's trainees Mullery and Witney are left to observe her cardiac operations from the sidelines...
Cast: James Nesbitt, Sarah Parish, Tom Riley, Susan Lynch, Manjinder Virk, Thomas Morrison, Perry Millward, Luke Allen-Gale, Michelle Asante, Christina Chong, Andrew Gower.
For more information about Monroe - click here
Monroe DVD available 25.04.11
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CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND
1 x 90 minutes for BBC2
Writer: Kevin Elyot
Director: Geoff Sax
Producer: Celia Duval
Based on Christopher Isherwood's critically acclaimed memoir, this is the most honest account yet of his time in pre-war Berlin, immortalised in CABARET. The city's thriving bohemian scene prove to be momentous for Isherwood in his professional and personal life; he meets Jean Ross, the inspiration for Sally Bowles, and falls in love with a young street cleaner named Heinz. As the Nazis gain power, Christopher is forced to make some uncomfortable choices...
Cast: Matt Smith, Toby Jones, Imogen Poots, Douglas Booth, Pip Carter, Alexander Doetsch, Iddo Goldberg, Issy Van Randwyck, Lindsay Duncan.
For more information about Christopher And His Kind - click here
Christopher And His Kind DVD available 21.03.11
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JOE MADDISON'S WAR
1 x 85 minutes for ITV1
Writer: Alan Plater
Director: Patrick Collerton
Producer: Howard Ella
Alan Plater's last screenplay for TV. As Britain is drawn into WWII, Tyneside shipyard worker Joe finds himself at a crossroads. Days after his daughter's marriage Joe's wife unexpectedly leaves him, and for the first time in his life he's totally alone. A WWI hero but too old to serve again, Joe and his friend Harry reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard, where he begins a journey of self-discovery, heroism, friendship and love.
Cast: Kevin Whately, Robson Green, Derek Jacobi, Melanie Hill, Trevor Fox, Angela Lonsdale, John Woodvine.
Press reaction to Joe Maddison's War - click here
For more information about Joe Maddisons's war - click here
Joe Maddison's War DVD now available - click here
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BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE
3 x 1 hours for ITV1
Writer: Guy Andrews
Director: Ashley Pearce
Producer: Kate McKerrell
A powerful psychological thriller exploring sexual obsession and betrayal. When Peter Manson discovers his daughter
Prue is pregnant his world is turned upside down, but is this just fatherly concern or is Peter hiding a dark secret?
A secret which threatens to shine a disturbing light on his love for Prue, and force the Manson family to acknowledge
a truth which may destroy their lives forever.
Cast: Trevor Eve, Hermione Norris, Imogen Poots, Tom Riley, Jemima Rooper, Pierro Niel-Mee, Nicholas Farrell, Adrian Rawlings.
Press reaction to Bouquet of Barbed Wire - click here
For more information about Bouquet of Barbed Wire - click here
Bouquet of Barbed Wire DVD now available - click here
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DAPPERS
1 x 30 mins pilot for BBC3
Writer: Catherine Johnson
Director: Greg Fay
Producer: Jane Harrison
Comedy drama following the adventures of Faye and Ashley, Bristolian single mums who live in housing association flats in well-to-do Clifton.
Cast: Lenora Crichlow, Ty Glaser, Tom Ellis, Jack Ashton, Darren Boyd, Olivia Poulet, Gwen Taylor, Eddie Large.
For more information about Dappers - click here
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AMANDA HOLDEN'S FANTASY LIVES
3 x 1 hours for ITV1
Co-production with ITV Studios
Amanda Holden steps outside her career as an actress and judge on the UK’s biggest variety show to experience the very different lives of a
Parisian showgirl, country singer, and stuntwoman. Each episode sees Amanda plunge herself into a different fantasy life as she sets out to uncover
the hard work, day to day reality and grit that lies beneath the glamorous public face of each role.
For more information about Amanda Holden’s Fantasy Lives – click here
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MARGOT
1 x 90 mins for BBC4
Writer: Amanda Coe
Director: Otto Bathurst
Producer: Celia Duval
Beautiful and heartbreaking, MARGOT brings to the screen the glamorous and turbulent life of Britain’s foremost international ballet superstar.
Cast: Anne-Marie Duff, Lindsay Duncan, Michiel Huisman, Derek Jacobi, Con O’Neill and Penelope Wilton.
Press reaction to Margot – click here
Margot DVD now available - click here
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS
2 x 90 mins for ITV1
Writer: Peter Bowker
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Producer: Radford Neville
Peter Bowker’s thrilling new version of Emily Bronte’s epic
novel stars Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley as doomed lovers
Heathcliff and Cathy.
Cast: Burn Gorman, Rosalind Halstead, Tom Hardy, Andrew
Hawley, Sarah Lancashire, Andrew Lincoln, Des McAleer, Kevin
R McNally, Rebecca Night, Tom Payne and Charlotte Riley.
Shot on location in Yorkshire and supported by the Screen
Yorkshire production fund.
Press reaction to Wuthering Heights – click here
For more information about Wuthering Heights - click here
Wuthering Heights DVD now available - click here
Wuthering Heights BLU-RAY DVD now available - click here
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LOST IN AUSTEN
4 x 1 hours for ITV1
Writer: Guy Andrews
Director: Dan Zeff
Producer: Kate McKerrell
Amanda Price, a thoroughly modern heroine (Jemima Rooper), threatens to ruin one of the world's greatest literary
love stories in this ingenious reinvention of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Ruby Bentall, Hugh Bonneville,
Morven Christie, Christina Cole, Elliot Cowan, Lindsay
Duncan, Pippa Haywood, Guy Henry, Florence Hoath, Alex
Kingston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Mison, Dan Percival, Tom
Riley, Jemima Rooper and Perdita Weeks.
Shot on location in Yorkshire and supported by the Screen Yorkshire production fund.
For more information about Lost in Austen - click here
Lost In Austen DVD now available - click here |
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BONEKICKERS
6 x 1 hours for BBC1
Co-production with Monastic Productions
Created by Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah
Dr Gillian Magwilde heads up an archaeology team ably
supported by Professer Gregory Parton, Dr. Ben Ergha and
young intern Viv Davies. Bonekickers is a bold mix of
historical puzzle, action adventure and international
conspiracy thriller.
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Julie Graham, Adrian Lester, Michael
Maloney and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Bonekickers DVD now available – click here
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