{"id":21157,"date":"2024-07-25T09:34:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T13:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/itv-studios-takes-majority-stake-in-hartswood\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T13:34:37","slug":"itv-studios-takes-majority-stake-in-hartswood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/itv-studios-takes-majority-stake-in-hartswood\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV Studios Takes Majority Stake in Hartswood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITV Studios has acquired a majority stake in Hartswood Films, behind such series as <em>Douglas Is Cancelled<\/em> (ITV), <em>The Devil\u2019s Hour<\/em> (Prime Video) and <em>Sherlock<\/em> (BBC).<\/p>\n<p>Hartswood is led by Sue Vertue, CEO and executive producer, alongside Debbie Vertue, director of operations; Dan Cheesbrough, managing director; and Steven Moffat, creative director and executive producer. Other recent series to its credit include <em>Dracula<\/em> and the miniseries thriller <em>Inside Man<\/em>, both for the BBC and Netflix, as well as <em>Wolf<\/em> and <em>The Control Room<\/em> for the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>International distribution for future Hartswood Films commissions will be handled by ITV Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Bellamy, managing director of ITV Studios, said: &#8220;From <em>Men Behaving Badly<\/em> to <em>Sherlock<\/em>, <em>The Devil&#8217;s Hour<\/em> to <em>Douglas Is Cancelled<\/em>, Hartswood Films has been a huge part of the TV landscape for decades. They have a hard-won reputation for being brilliant producers of quality, ambitious and highly successful scripted television. I&#8217;m delighted to welcome them to ITV Studios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vertue of Hartswood Films said: \u201cHartswood is not known for making rash decisions and it\u2019s taken us 40 years to make this one: we are delighted therefore to have chosen to team up with ITV Studios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have always been open to investment if we could meet like-minded people who understood the need for independence which is at the \u2018heart\u2019 of Hartswood, while bringing us a whole new range of strengths and skills. We are a small company and have done very well on our own, but we couldn\u2019t be more excited about a bigger future and what we can achieve together with ITV Studios.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITV Studios has acquired a majority stake in Hartswood Films, behind such series as Douglas Is Cancelled (ITV), The Devil\u2019s Hour (Prime Video) and Sherlock (BBC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":21158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[2766,119],"class_list":["post-21157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-hartswood-films","tag-itv-studios","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ITV Studios Takes Majority Stake in Hartswood - 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