Introduction by Jane
Tranter, 大象传媒 Controller of Drama Commissioning
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"New dramas this autumn build on our commitment to be more reflective
of audiences around the UK, and to access a greater breadth of talent
and voices.
"Blackpool, set in the Las
Vegas of the Lancashire coast, is Peter Bowker's darkly comic drama
serial with musical numbers, starring David Morrissey,
Sarah Parish, John Thomson and David
Tennant.
"North And South is Sandy
Welch's adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's passionate love story set
against the backdrop of Victorian Manchester, starring Daniela
Denby-Ashe and Richard Armitage.
"Set in Nottingham, William Ivory's A
Thing Called Love completes the line-up of original dramas
on 大象传媒 ONE: six powerful stories of love and sex which follow a hopeless
romantic (played by Paul Nicholls) and his attempts
to understand the mysteries of the human heart.
"大象传媒 THREE - which has committed to producing all of its dramas
outside the south-east - has two, new, contemporary British-made dramas
this autumn following the success of Bodies earlier this year.
"Bill Gallagher's Conviction
is a provocative and complex story of a murder investigation starring
William Ash, Nicholas Gleaves, Reece
Dinsdale and Laura Fraser. Shot in Manchester,
it is the latest in a run of acclaimed dramas from Red Production Company.
"Outlaws is a comic dissection
of the criminal justice system created by Steve Coombes, starring Phil
Daniels as an ambulance-chasing criminal lawyer - from World
Productions and filmed in Bolton.
"While viewers have the opportunity to see the first series of
the universally-acclaimed Bodies
on 大象传媒 TWO this autumn - which was filmed in Leeds - a second series
from Hat Trick starts production for 大象传媒 THREE next year.
"Also for 大象传媒 THREE, Red are shortly to start filming Russell
T Davies' major three-part event drama, Casanova
- starring David Tennant and Peter O'Toole."
Jane Tranter 大象传媒 Controller of Drama Commissioning
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