Carnival Films to Produce New ITV1 Drama Series

LONDON, July 19: Carnival
Films, a leading independent drama producer in the U.K., has been commissioned
to produce Harley Street (working
title), a contemporary drama series for ITV1.

Harley Street, set in London’s famous medical district, brings
together a range of characters to tell the stories of a team of high-flying
general practitioners and specialists establishing a new breed of innovative
private practices and the “ordinary people” who are turning to them. The
six-part series, written by Marston Bloom, promises to be a modern, sassy and
witty take on the quintessentially English world of medicine.

The show has been developed by
Carnival’s Christopher Aird, who will executive produce with Sally Woodward
Gentle, creative director. It will be produced by Joy Spink (Waking the
Dead, Auf Wiedersehen Pet).

“It’s great to have a
contemporary, aspirational medical drama for ITV1,” said Laura Mackie, the
director of drama at ITV. “It’s a series that offers all the ingredients that
viewers traditionally enjoy in this genre—life and death situations,
varied medical stories but told in the very different world of private
medicine.”

Harley Street is due to air in summer 2008, with casting to be
confirmed by fall.