Tag: Dancing Ledge Productions

Laurence Bowen, CEO of Dancing Ledge Productions, and Chris Carey, managing director, talk to World Screen Newsflash about bringing new voices to the table, the market tendency for “bigger, better, fewer” when it comes to drama these days, financing models and narrative formats.

Filming has started in Liverpool on the second season of the drama The Responder, produced by Dancing Ledge Productions (The Salisbury Poisonings, Crossfire) for BBC One and iPlayer.

Dancing Ledge Productions (The Responder, Wedding Season) and ScreenSkills’ High-end Television (HETV) Skills Fund have named the writers who have signed on as mentors for the HETV Skills Fund New Writers Program 2023.

Christian Vesper has been promoted to CEO for global drama at Fremantle, a newly created role.

ITV has commissioned the four-part psychological thriller Platform 7 from Dancing Ledge Productions (The Responder, The Salisbury Poisonings). 

Fremantle has increased its stake in Dancing Ledge Productions to become the majority shareholder of the U.K.-based indie.

Fremantle has sold the BBC drama The Responder throughout Europe, North America, Australia and Africa.

Dancing Ledge Productions (The Salisbury Poisonings) and ITV have revealed the eight writers in the U.K. who have agreed to mentor eight rising stars in their New Talent Scheme.

Dancing Ledge Productions has promoted Chris Carey to the post of managing director.

Filming is underway on the three-part fact-based drama Salisbury, which focuses on the impact the 2018 Novichok poisonings had on the local community.