Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars
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Andy Rowley, Producer
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Andy Rowley is an international award-winning television drama producer who has worked in co-production and with leading independent companies including Zenith, Wark Clements, Southern Star, Catalyst Entertainment and Village Roadshow Productions, as well as the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and ITV in the UK.
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He has experience of many aspects of drama production and has successfully produced a varied slate of series and children's dramas, general audience drama and TV movies/mini-series.
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Rowley's credits include: the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Microsoap, Winner of Best Children's Drama Bafta 1999; the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Dalziel & Pascoe; and Jeopardy series I and II for C´óÏó´«Ã½, winner of the Bafta for Best Children's Drama 2002.
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Julian Kemp, Director
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Julian Kemp has worked extensively as a television and film director/writer, winning many awards, including three International Emmys and four British Academy Awards.
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He has directed feature films, television drama, documentary, commercials and animation, as well as writing series and stand-alone dramas.
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Julian began his career as a child actor before graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Credits include the feature films House! (2000), Roger And The Rottentrolls (1996) and Blabbermouth And Stickybeak (1998).
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"I always wanted to do Sherlock Holmes," says Kemp. "I've read about half the books and watched most of the films and seen lots of different actors play the great detective.
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"I loved the scripts – they have a contemporary feel while at the same time respecting the original stories, and they were packed with action and adventure. They also offered an opportunity to recreate Victorian London. There are terrific locations in Dublin, where we filmed, for this – places that you can really build on and use. We were very lucky.
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"I'm a massive fan of Jonathan Pryce, so it was a real thrill to work with him. I first saw him in Brazil when I was 14 and that's when I knew I wanted to direct. So this was really my dream job.
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"I was a child actor, so I know how difficult it is to act as a youngster. We saw many kids for the parts and the ones we found were really good. They took it seriously and would often come to me and ask: 'How can we make it better?'"
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Elaine Serber, Executive Producer
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RDF Television's Head of Family and Children's Drama, Elaine Serber, joined RDF Media in 2006 from Mentorn Productions where she was the executive
producer in charge of Living It 2 and a number of other drama projects.
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Prior to that, Elaine was Head of Drama at C´óÏó´«Ã½ and responsible for over 50 drama series, including the long-running Grange Hill and the Bafta-winning Pig Heart Boy, Custers's Last Stand Up, Bootleg and Feather Boy.
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More recent successes include RTS and Broadcast Award-winner Tracy Beaker – The Movie Of Me, Indie Award-winner Fungus The Bogeyman and Kidnapped. Prior to joining C´óÏó´«Ã½, Elaine worked at Buena Vista, Walt Disney Pictures and HBO.
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RDF Television
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RDF Television is the largest production company in the RDF Media Group. It has offices in West London and Bristol. It was founded in 1993 and has established an outstanding reputation for producing popular and innovative programmes across a wide range of genres.
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In recent years, RDF Television programming has won the Rose D'Or of Montreux and Golden Rose of Lucerne (Europe's top entertainment award), an International Emmy, as well as numerous Bafta, Royal Television Society and Broadcast magazine awards.
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