Productions
Written & Directed by Mark Gatiss
With Can Do Productions
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Wilf Scolding, Simon Williams, Sara Crowe, James Holmes, Fisayo Akinade and Elliot Levey
Broadcaster: BBC4
1 x 30min Drama
Viewing figures: 1.4m (6.7%), BBC4’s joint-highest consolidated show of 2019.
Martin's Close - Pick of the Day ***** – Mail on Sunday
Martin's Close - The Times Review **** - The Times
Martin's Close - Pick of the Day - Guardian
Written & Directed by Mark Gatiss
With Can Do Productions
Starring: Simon Callow, Anjli Mohindra, Susan Penhaligon, Joshua Oakes-Rogers.
Broadcaster: BBC4
1 x 30min Drama
Viewing Figures: 922,000 (4.4%), BBC4's second-highest rated original commission of 2018.
'The Dead Room' is the queer ghostly love story we've all been hankering for this Christmas. - Independent
One to watch on Christmas Eve - Radio Times
12 hidden gems of Christmas TV - Digital Spy
In Development
The Murder of Daniel Strauss
Current Status - In development with Red Arrow
6 x 60mins TV Drama Series - Returning
Writer: Chris Lunt
Strauss is a contemporary thriller with a shocking twist - all based on a true story.
Villette
Current Status - In development with eOne & WGBH
5 x 60mins TV Drama Mini Series
Writer: Emma Donoghue
A story of struggle, survival and determination against every adversary.
Room writer crosses into TV with Bronte drama - Broadcast
Royce
Current Status - In development & lead actor attached
6 x 60mins TV Drama Comedy Series - Returning
Writer: Kevin Lehane
In his day SIS Intelligence Officer Phillip Royce was a ruthless operative. In 2016 he's a 50-something, hard-drinking, debt-ridden, womanizing has-been hero with aches and pains. Abruptly dismissed by MI6, Royce has drifted through a meaningless, anonymous existence. Until he is called upon to join a clandestine unit to uncover a plot that threatens UK security.
Ghosts
Current Status - In development
3 x 60mins Comedy Drama Event TV for the Family
Writer: TBC
When Lucy sat in the attic, she thought she heard the sound of voices calling... That's when she started to believe the rumors in the village that the old house was haunted.
Starkey
Current Status - In development & lead actor attached
6 x 60min TV Drama Comedy Series - Returning
Writer: Colin Bateman
Adorable Media is developing for TV the best selling books by COLIN BATEMAN, Dan Starkey is a private investigator struggling to make a success of his business and to make sense of his tangled love life in a modern and dynamic Belfast - which appears peaceful but retains a dangerous under belly.
Colin Bateman also created and wrote the long-running BBC series ‘Murphy’s Law’ starring Jimmy Nesbitt.
The Harbourmaster
Current Status - In development Channel 4, talent attached.
6/8 x 30mins TV Comedy Returning Series
Writers: Adam Larter & Ben Alborough
A surreal comedy about an old salty dog Harbourmaster and a young police woman solving crimes in a seaside town.
Caroline
Current Status - In development
3/4 x 60mins TV Thriller Drama Returning Series
Writer: Fiona Doyle
Caroline is a top-class, high-flying criminal lawyer working on a very sensitive case. What she uncovers while working on this case will eventually come back at her in devastating ways, and change her life forever.