Upcoming Series
Details of future home-grown productions
BBC
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Moving On, Zen, Siege
Moving on - Moving On, BBC One Daytime's critically acclaimed drama, whose writers
were mentored by BAFTA award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern (The Street), is set to
return for a second series, it is announced today. Liam Keelan, Controller of Daytime,
has commissioned 10 new episodes of the original drama, doubling the run of the first
series. Executive produced by Jimmy McGovern and by LA Productions' Colin McKeown,
Moving On comprises 10 stand-alone episodes all linked by the common theme of how
to move on in life. The series will once again be written by a combination of new
and established writers and will be filmed on location in and around Liverpool.
Zen - Left Bank Pictures are making a 3 x 90 minute series based on the detective
novels written by Michael Dibden. It is filmed on location in Rome and explores
Mafia corruption.
Siege - a four episode series to be stripped over one week (like Five Days) which
focuses on a botched kidnap plot in a London school. The series is written by Kate
Brook.
ITV
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Primeval, Monroe, Come Rain Come Shine
Primeval - The programme will return for two new series from 2011, thanks to a ground-breaking
deal between ITV, multichannel broadcaster, UKTV, and producers Impossible Pictures.
The new series will be showrun once again by Adrian Hodges, and will feature the
return of stars from the previous series, including Hannah Spearritt, Andrew Lee
Potts and Jason Flemyng, alongside the acclaimed special effects created by the award-winning
team at Framestore CFC. The premieres of Series 4 and series 5 of Primeval will
be split between ITV1 and UKTV’s new entertainment pay TV channel, Watch. ITV1 will
be the first to broadcast series 4 (in early 2011), while Watch will premiere series
5 later that year. ITV1 will then broadcast season 5. Impossible Pictures has worked
closely with BBC Worldwide to implement a new funding strategy for the series, in
which BBC America, which has acquired previous series for broadcast in the US, joins
Germany’s Pro7 as a co-production partner for the new episodes. Tim Haines, Creative
Director of Impossible Pictures Ltd, said: “I am thrilled that ITV has agreed to
this new deal which will allow Impossible Pictures to produce another 13 episodes
of Primeval. The confidence demonstrated in the programme's continued success here
and abroad will help us bring more big screen action and a whole host of new creatures
roaring back into people's living rooms.” Paul Moreton, Channel Head of Watch,
said: “We are really excited to be part of this truly innovative deal that guarantees
the continuation of this fantastically entertaining series. I know Primeval is going
to be a massive hit with Watch viewers and the perfect complement to other popular
sci-fi dramas such as Doctor Who and Torchwood.”
Monroe - is a dark, medical series of 6 sixty-minute episodes centred on the intense
and often difficult world of a neurosurgeon and the patients with whom he comes into
contact. The drama will focus on one character rather than a team and will be less
A&E-based.
Come Rain Come Shine - Sir David Jason plays cockney ex-docker Don married to Dora
played by Alison Steadman, the retired couple have two grown-up children, David and
Joanne. David lives in a big detached homes nestling in a quiet idyllic cul-de-sac.
With Bentleys and flash cars on the driveway, property developed David lives the
high life and mixes in circles alien to his working class upbringing.
