ITV Goes for Dramedy About Bed & Breakfast

LONDON: ITV has ordered Edge of Heaven, a 6×1-hour comedic drama series, from Hartswood Films.

Edge of Heaven revolves around the members of Taylor-Chatterjee family, who operate a 1980s-themed bed and breakfast in Margate. The cast of the show will be led by Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners), Justine Michelle Cain (WPC56, Some Girls), Camille Coduri (Him and Her, Doctor Who), Nitin Kundra (Steel River Blues, Celebrity Juice), Laura Checkley (Checkley and Bush), Louisa Lytton (EastEnders, The Bill), Marcia Warren (Vicious, Jam and Jerusalem), Adrian Scarborough (Miranda, Gavin and Stacey) and Robert Evans (Stella). Filming will kick off at the end of the summer.

Myfanwy Moore, the commissioning editor for comedy at ITV, commented: "We’re delighted to be able to book into the Edge of Heaven B&B alongside such a great ensemble cast of larger than life characters. We hope their lives and loves will win them a place in our viewers’ hearts."

Beryl Vertue, executive producer for Hartswood Films, added: "It is very good news that ITV have started to commission scripted comedy again, and we’ll try and give them a big hit with Edge of Heaven. This is [writer] Robert Evans’ first original comedy series, and his hilarious scripts have attracted a great cast."