Recent Productions
BBC Merlin (Shine)
Client: Sue De Bouvoir (, )
A host of stars including John Hurt, Michelle Ryan and Richard Wilson are set to appear in BBC One's latest Saturday night drama, Merlin.
The 13-part series follows the fabled friendship between the young wizard Merlin and Prince Arthur.
Bafta-winner Hurt will provide the voice of Merlin's mentor, the Great Dragon, while Bionic Woman star Ryan will play wicked sorceress Nimueh.
Newcomer Colin Morgan, 22, from Northern Ireland, takes the title role.
His previous television experience is limited to guest roles on Doctor Who and the Catherine Tate Show.
However, he has made a name for himself in the West End with critically acclaimed roles in Vernon God Little and All About My Mother.
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Golden Compass
Client: Nik Korda (Production Manager, )
Lyra Belaqua, living in Oxford's Jordan College, is not but a young girl living among scholars. Her world may seem diverse, from physical embodiments of souls that take the shape of an animal, but similar with people around you to become friends and enemies. She is thrown into a perilous adventure when she overhears a conversation of an extraordinary microscopic particle, Dust. This particle is said to unite different worlds, and is feared by many who want to destroy it forever. As Lyra is flung into the middle of this horrible struggle, she meets wondrous creatures both big and small, and villains who are not what they seem. Gobblers, that kidnap children, will turn out in the most unexpected places. And a magical compass of gold that will answer any question if one is skilled enough to read it. Lyra's adventure continues throughout these three books, and the first is about to be told.
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Amazing Grace
Client: Angus More Gordon .... (Production Manager , )
Amazing Grace, based on the life of antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce, is directed by Michael Apted (The World is Not Enough, Coal Miner's Daughter) from an original screenplay written by Academy Award® nominee Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things).
The film stars Ioan Gruffudd (Black Hawk Down), Albert Finney (Erin Brockovich), Romola Garai (Vanity Fair), Michael Gambon (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Benedict Cumberbatch (Hawking), Rufus Sewell (Legend of Zorro), Ciaran Hinds (Rome) and introduces Youssou N'Dour.
Executive Producer is Jeanney Kim, with Mark Cooper as co-producer. Producers on the film are Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line) and Ed Pressman under their Sunflower Productions banner, Patricia Heaton and David Hunt for FourBoys Films, and Ken Wales.
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Brideshead Revisited
Client: Rosa Romero (Production Manager, )
Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode are attached to play Sebastian and Charles respectively in Brideshead Revisited. Hayley Atwell is attached to play Julia Flyte. The film is due to shoot in June 2007 with Julian Jarrold directing.
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OUTLAW
Client: Caroline Levy & Polly Fryer (Vertigo Films, )
Dir: Nick Love
Writer: Nick Love
Cast: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Rupert Friend, Sean Harris, Lennie James & Bob Hoskins
Five interwoven stories come together to expose what really lies beneath people's shattered lives to explore what happens when the victims of crime take the law into their own hands, seeking revenge through violence. Challenging and thought provoking, OUTLAW is an exploration of social complexities in contemporary Britain
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Starter for ten
Client: Mary Richards (Producer, )
Based on a novel by University of Bristol undergraduate David Nicholls, Starter for Ten, a dark romantic tale, is set in 1985 when working-class quiz-show fanatic Brian begins his studies.
The film stars Shameless graduate James McAvoy, most recently seen as Mr Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Love and Other Disasters
Client: Joe Farr (Production Manager, )
Romantic comdey
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Half Light
Client: Guy Tanahill (Line Producer, )
A successful mystery writer retreats to a remote fishing village following the tragic death of her son, only to become caught up in a bizarre supernatural murder mystery in this tale of terror directed by Craig Rosenberg and starring Demi Moore. Rachel Carson's (Moore) five-year-old son has drowned, and as a result her life appears to be falling apart at the seams. When a sympathetic friend rents Rachel a secluded cottage in hopes that a little peace and quiet will help the grieving mother recover from her loss, the quiet retreat is violently shattered by a series of bizarre and unexplained murders. Now with a community in fear and her sanity slowly slipping, Rachel must use her instincts to unmask the killer before it's too late and she too falls prey to the murderous rage that threatens to consume the once tranquil town.
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Gosford Park
Client: Tori Parry (production manager , )
Set in the 1930's the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. The story centers around the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on and secrets are revealed, it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it...? Written by
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Palais royal
Client: Joe Farr (Production Manager, )
After the King dies, her husband (played by the always classy Lambert Wilson) is destined to take the crown, and her to become part of a world she doesn't really know of. As you can see, the plot is very basic, but what shows Lemercier's cleverness is her ability to laugh at the clichés and the explore every little details of her characters. Her screenplay is full of subtle jokes and plays of words - some can regret that a few jokes are a bit... vulgar, but always very funny if you can understand the double meanings
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The Walker
Client: Paul Sarony (Producer, )
The Walker” is the story of CARTER PAGE III, a society “walker” in Washington DC, a “job” which entails squiring the wives of the rich and powerful to the opera and such because their husbands couldn’t be bothered. He has three primary friends, LYNN (50’s), ABBY (60’s) and NATALIE (70’s) as well as a boyfriend MELEK in his thirties. Carter and his women friends play canasta each Wednesday. Lynn, the wife of a liberal senator, contacts Carter when she finds her lover murdered. To save her and her husband political embarrassment Carter offers to “find” the body. Complications ensue when MUNGO TENANT, an ambitious, conservative US District Attorney, determines to implicate both Carter and Lynn in her lover’s death. Carter is soon caught in a web of Washington intrigue and mixed motives. The son of a US senator and Virginia governor, Carter has prided himself in being “superficial” and “the black sheep.” As his friends desert him, as the net grows tighter, he must decide exactly how superficial he is: does he turn on the friends who have deserted him to save his own skin? Does he become involved? Carter and Melek (a newspaper photographer) using their own connections, set out to discover who is behind the plot to smear Lynn (therefore her husband) and how this ties in to the murder of her lover. Carter and Melek solve the murder and extricate Lynn from her political bind—but at the cost of Carter’s reputation. He must leave Washington, start a new life in New York.
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The Last Enemy
Client: CHARLOTTE BLOXHAM (Line producer, )
Benedict Cumberbatch, Max Beesley and BAFTA winner Anamaria Marinca are caught up in a love triangle in a visionary new thriller for BBC One from Box TV.
The Last Enemy is a shocking and compelling look at how technology could transform
The five part contemporary drama, by acclaimed screenwriter Peter Berry (Prime Suspect 6, Mary Bryant, Kiszko – A Life for a Life), follows a group of characters – including a scientist, an aid worker and a desperate father – who are each trying to deal with crises in their own lives when they unwittingly get caught up in a global mystery.
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De-Lovely
Client: Georgina Lowe (Production Manager , )
De-Lovely is an original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. In the film, Porter is looking back on his life as if it was one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and action onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits like "Anything Goes," "It's De-Lovely," and "Night and Day," Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated relationship with his wife and muse, Linda Lee Porter
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Stardust 2nd Unit
Client: Angus Moore-Gordon (Line Producer, )
The filming started on March the 25th on Iceland, regular filming is scheduled to begin on April the 21st in Pinewood Studios,
London.Plot Outline: In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.
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WAZ Film Limited
Client: MARSHALL LEVITEN (Vertigo Films, )
Filmed in Belfast
Well-worn by years of gangland brutality, veteran Detective Eddie Argo (Skarsgard) prides himself on playing by the book. However, loyalties wane as he and his new rookie partner Helen O'Mara (George) find themselves entangled in a string of violent and horrific killings that are targeting a notorious local gang - forcing Argo to revisit a case he would rather forget. In the midst of mounting terror, the calculating killer stays focused on the ultimate goal - to coerce Argo to pay for his previous mistakes and answer a final question...would you kill the one you love to save yourself from death.
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Gunrush ITV
Client: Charlote Bloxham (, )
Gunrush is a 1 x 120-minute drama that stars Timothy Spall as the father of the murdered girl.
Spall plays Doug Becket, a driving in-structor who lives an ordinary life in -suburban London, which is -completely altered when his daughter is murdered while they are shopping. Becket sets out to track down the only clue to the killer’s identity - the gun.
Police face a wall of silence in their hunt for the killer and the story-line has echoes of the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones, who was shot dead in Liverpool in the summer. However, Gunrush was written before that incident.
The drama is directed by Richard Clark and produced by Emma Benson, who said: “This film takes us to the heart of the crisis about gun crime in Britain. It explores what it means to be a man in contemporary society.”
Gunrush was written by Richard Cottan and is made in-house by ITV Productions.
It the first commission won by Kate Bartlett since she took over as controller of drama. She is also the executive producer on the programme.
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Waterloo Road #3
Client: Jonathan Leather (Production Manager, )
School's out ...
It's the end of another term at Waterloo Road... and what a term it's been! Will Andrew really swap Waterloo Road for a new life in Rwanda? Will Chlo and Donte elope together? Will Izzie survive? For the answers to all of these questions, you'll have to make sure you tune-in when Waterloo Road returns to BBC1 for a new 20-episode third series. In the meantime, for news and exclusive information about your favourite BBC1 drama, please keep visiting the Official Waterloo Road website
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Waterloo Road #2
Client: Sue De Bouvoir (Producer, )
Waterloo Road Comprehensive is on the scrap heap. It can be found very near the bottom of every league table there is. Its despondent teachers have given up trying to make a difference as they struggle to cope with their own personal problems as well as their nightmare day jobs. When the current Headmaster has a nervous breakdown, Jack Rimmer (Jason Merrells) is reluctantly thrown into the hot seat.
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Hotel Babylon series 1 & 2
Client: Mathew Patnick (Production Manager, )
Charlie Edwards (Max Beesley) welcomes us to the sexy world of the luxury five-star hotel industry in a stylish eight part drama from Carnival Films*, makers of As If and Poirot.
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BBC Bodies
Client: (, )
Bodies is not about heroic doctors and nurses but hands-on professionals doing a sometimes impossible job while confronting all too real dilemmas.
In the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at the South Central Infirmary, the central theme is the exploration of doctors' consciences as they question the medical competence of themselves and others.
And on the flipside of medical life, Bodies shows the personal relationships between the staff. There certainly is a lot of furtive coming and going in the corridors of the accommodation block.
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Channel 4 No Angels series 1 & 2
Client: Sue De Bouvoir (Producer, )
A critically acclaimed comedy drama following four young nurses facing life, death and lunacy on the wards of St Margaret’s, No Angels is a witty and honest look at the friendship of four young women who juggle a messy job in the modern NHS with equally messy and unpredictable off-duty lives.
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Sorted BBC Manchester
Client: Alison Law (Producer, )
17 week 11 day fortnight filming in Redish, stockport Area
Set in Manchester and written by Danny Brocklehurst, Sorted lifts the lid on the complicated, funny and emotive lives of this motley gang.
Producer Steve Lightfoot says: "The warmth, wit and camaraderie of these very ordinary blokes ensures they can see each other through whatever life throws at them. It's very real, with powerful, emotional storylines which will hook viewers in to their world.
"The sorting office is where the boys come together at the start of every day. They're a tight knit group, but with their shift finishing in the afternoon, there's plenty of time to see what they get up to away from the Post Office.
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BBC Waking The Dead
Client: Vanessa Stoddart (Line Producer, )
Det. Supt. Peter Boyd (played by Trevor Eve) is the leader of a multi-discipline police team of detectives and scientists, the Cold Case Squad, which investigates old, unsolved murder cases using modern methods and new technology that may not have been available during the original investigation.
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BBC Little Briton
Client: Francis Gilson (Line Producer, )
Based on the highly successful Radio 4 series, Little Britain is a hilarious exploration of the British Isles and its curious inhabitants after a successful pilot earlier this year. The programme travels from the Scottish highlands, through Wales, the tranquil English countryside and the less tranquil council estates of Britain's inner cities, while the narrator (Tom Baker) adds his insightful and eloquent comments for those less familiar with these fair Isles
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Roman’s Empire
Client: Christina Lesbirel (, )
Roman’s Empire focuses on the life of Roman Pretty, a self-made millionaire and dedicated family man who, with a mixture of both benevolent generosity and absolute authority, successfully runs an ‘Empire’ of thriving businesses. His monopoly, however, extends further than business and encompasses the lives of his much loved family, in particular his three beautiful daughters, and any man who dares to date one of them becomes a member of the family and a pawn in his empire – whether they like it or not.
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Touch of Frost
Client: Menzies Kennedy (Asosiate Producer, 01132 438289)
Touch of Frost was our first job as chorley Bunce film location catering nine years ago and hopfuly we will be doing the next nine years. I will just take this opertuity to thank all the cast and crew for their
support and compliments over the years.
Dave Chorley
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Ghost Boat
Client: Menzies Kennedy (Producer, )
A British Sub goes missing at the end of the war leaving only one crew member surviving. Everyone believes it lost to the bottom of the ocean, then 40 years later it reappears without a crew. The British government send for the the surviving crew member (David Jason) now a marine biologist. With a new crew and Jason then proceed to trace the last know happenings on the sub. But this submarine has a life of its own and the new crew soon start showing characteristics of the old crew.
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Diamond Geezer
Client: Menzies Kennedy (Asosiate Producer, )
Written by Manchester-raised Caleb Ranson, the royal story launches a new series of ITV1's Diamond Geezer. It stars Sir David as master criminal Des Parker, whose previous jobs include a jewel heist in Wilmslow.
It also features former Minder actor George Cole as a getaway driver on the rather more challenging Palace robbery. At one stage he tells gentleman thief Des: "You realise you can kiss goodbye to your knighthood after this."
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The Quest 1# 2# 3#
Client: David Jason / David Reynolds (Producer Director, )
Three old friends are re-united in hospital owing to an accident that happened to one of them. Whilst together they recall their ill-fated motorbike trip to the Isle of Man that they made in 1960. Ostensibly, their trip was to ride the famous TT race course but inevitably girls and their continuing quest to lose their virginity was never far from their minds!
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Micawber
Client: Menzies Kennedy (Production Manager , )
David Jason stars as Mr Micawber in this gentle comedy set in Victorian England and inspired by a character from Charles Dickens' novel 'David Copperfield'. The extravagant but genteel Mr Micawber is fond of large words and long letters and never uses one word when several will do. Appearing to be a man of wealth and success, in reality he hasn't a penny to his name but firmly believes in keeping up appearances at all costs - convinced that something will come along.
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Steel River Blues
Client: Menzies Kennedy (Production Manager , )
Exploring the lives and working challenges of Blue Watch, a team of fire fighters working in the heart of Middlesbrough, northeast England
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BBC Chopratown
Client: Mike Treen (Producer, )
Sanjeev Bhaskar (best known as 'Sanjay' from the popular TV series 'The Kumars At No.42') portrays private detective Vic Chopra. This new comedy crime drama is very much like 'The Rockford Files' with Chopra getting himself into all types of scrapes as a result of his dubious investigative methods.
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The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
Client: Menzies Kennedy (Production Manager , )
As Seen on PBS Mystery! Based on a true story! Prince of Poisoners A Horrific Serial Killer in the 'Genteel' Victorian Era! Dr. William Palmer (Keith Allen - The Others) was a respectable, small-town physician and racehorse owner. Few guessed that Dr. Palmer had a dark, evil side. To the members of the polite Victorian society in which he moved, his true identity as a swindler and womaniser, who had cruelly murdered his mother-in-law, wife, brother and infant children, remained well hidden - until they began digging up the bodies.
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The Best Man UK Unit
Client: Amanda Wilkie (, )
THE PLOT: James (Steve John Shepherd) is to get married to Sarah (Amy Smart), and has asked his old college chum Olly (Stuart Townsend) to be his best man. Olly is delighted, although having suffered from writer's block for the past five years he is worried about composing the speech. His role becomes even more complicated when he starts to develop some affection for the bride-to-be.
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