Granada Unveils Slate for NATPE

LONDON, December 12: Granada International is heading to
NATPE with a raft of new titles covering genres like comedy, entertainment,
music and drama, led by the British TV movie My Boy Jack, which stars Daniel Radcliffe and Kim
Cattrall.

In his first television role since Harry Potter, Radcliffe stars alongside Sex and the
City’s Cattrall in the wartime drama, My
Boy Jack. The 95-minute production, an
Ecosse Films/WGBH Boston/Ingenious Broadcasting co-production for ITV in
association with Octagon Films and Granada International, is based on the true
story of Jack Kipling (played by Radcliffe), the son of British author Rudyard
Kipling. After Jack becomes a soldier in WWI and goes missing, Rudyard and his
wife Carre (played by Cattrall) begin their search to find their son.

David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Thin Blue
Line) stars as Rudyard Kipling, and wrote
the drama, which is directed by Brian Kirk (The Tudors, Middletown) and also stars Carey Mulligan (Bleak
House, Northanger Abbey). My Boy
Jack recently aired in the U.K. on ITV1,
and achieved a 25-percent share of viewers in a prime-time Sunday-night slot.

Other drama offerings include the 13×48-minute series Murdoch
Mysteries, which is set in Toronto, Canada
in the 1980s. Yannick Bisson stars as William Murdoch, a young detective who
solves challenging murders using emerging and progressive forensic techniques.
The series is a Shaftesbury Films production in association with CHUM
Television, Granada International and UKTV. BAFTA Award-winner Victoria Wood (Housewife
49) and Emma Watson (Hermione in Harry
Potter) star in the drama Ballet
Shoes, from
Granada for the BBC.

Other titles in Granada’s catalogue for NATPE include
entertainment programming like Corteo,
which features circus skills and avant-garde theatrical techniques presented by
Cirque du Soleil, along with its backstage counterpart Through The
Curtain. On the music and celebrity
programming front, Granada will offer up The Kylie Show, Divas and Audience With Celine Dion, among others.

Additional highlights include the comedic entertainment
series The Friday Night Project, which is also available as a format. Other
formats from Granada’s catalogue include the cooking competition reality show
Best Dish… and the game
show format Born Winners.
Also available from Granada at NATPE are the wildlife series Nick
Baker’s Weird Creatures, the HD animated
series Supernormal, the
children’s series Boowa & Kwala, Hollywood TV movies like Matters of Life And Dating, the series Old Skool with Terry and Gita, as well as the popular Hell’s Kitchen series from both the U.S. and the U.K.

—By Kristin Brzoznowski