Wolf Hall producer Company Pictures is bolstering its drama business with the appointment of three new hires including Richard Fell from Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films.
This comes after Deadline revealed earlier this week that The White Princess producer was developing an adaptation of Rebecca Stott’s cult novel In The Days of Rain.
The All3Media-owned indie has hired Fell as Head of Drama. He joins from the NBCU-backed firm, where he was exec producer on Sky’s Stan Lee’s Lucky Man and Jamestown. Before joining Carnival, he was Managing Director at Fresh Pictures and Senior Executive at Tiger Aspect Drama and also spent 11 years at the BBC.
Lucy Raffety joins as Director of Development. She was previously senior producer on long-running BBC medical drama Casualty and has also worked on shows including The Musketeers, Waterloo Road and Bad Girls.
Finally, Josephine Davies joins as Development Producer from Pulse Films.
This comes after Deadline revealed earlier this week that The White Princess producer was developing an adaptation of Rebecca Stott’s cult novel In The Days of Rain.
The All3Media-owned indie has hired Fell as Head of Drama. He joins from the NBCU-backed firm, where he was exec producer on Sky’s Stan Lee’s Lucky Man and Jamestown. Before joining Carnival, he was Managing Director at Fresh Pictures and Senior Executive at Tiger Aspect Drama and also spent 11 years at the BBC.
Lucy Raffety joins as Director of Development. She was previously senior producer on long-running BBC medical drama Casualty and has also worked on shows including The Musketeers, Waterloo Road and Bad Girls.
Finally, Josephine Davies joins as Development Producer from Pulse Films.
- 6/5/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Shudder, the leading subscription video on demand service for thriller, suspense and horror, has acquired all three seasons of the bold, action packed crime thriller Stan Lee’s Lucky Man for Us release, produced by Carnival Films.
Based on the original idea from legendary comic book writer Stan Lee, Lucky Man is a story about luck, fate, gambling, superstition and the consequences of our actions. It follows Di Harry Clayton – a brilliant, yet troubled cop from London’s notorious Murder Squad who is also a compulsive gambler in danger of losing the thing he values most: his family. As he’s approaching rock bottom, he meets the beautiful and enigmatic Eve at a casino who gives him a mysterious bracelet that grants him with the power to control luck. But it comes at a price.
Stan Lee said: “I’ve always been captivated by the subject of luck, and I...
Based on the original idea from legendary comic book writer Stan Lee, Lucky Man is a story about luck, fate, gambling, superstition and the consequences of our actions. It follows Di Harry Clayton – a brilliant, yet troubled cop from London’s notorious Murder Squad who is also a compulsive gambler in danger of losing the thing he values most: his family. As he’s approaching rock bottom, he meets the beautiful and enigmatic Eve at a casino who gives him a mysterious bracelet that grants him with the power to control luck. But it comes at a price.
Stan Lee said: “I’ve always been captivated by the subject of luck, and I...
- 9/13/2018
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
Drama veteran Jessica Pope has joined NBCUniversal’s Carnival Films as Executive Producer. Based in London, she will report to Carnival Managing Director Gareth Neame and will develop her own programming as well as working with fellow exec producers Nigel Marchant and Richard Fell on the company's growing production slate. Pope joins Downton Abbey maker Carnival from her role as Exec Producer at BBC Studios. Prior to that, Pope held roles at BBC Drama London and then…...
- 1/23/2017
- Deadline TV
Ruth Negga (left) stars as Mildred and Joel Edgerton (right) stars as Richard in Jeff
Nichols Loving, a Focus Features release. Photo credit: Ben Rothstein / Focus Features. © Focus Features
Loving is wonderful, warmly romantic drama about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, whose Supreme Court case struck down laws that prevented interracial couples from marrying. Although the court case is part of the story, the film is really about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, childhood sweethearts whose deeply romantic love story is the heart of this excellent, touching film.
Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special) directs this fine, realistic, gentle romance story, with fine performances by Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as the couple. The couple’s beautiful love story is the heart of this film.
Audiences expecting a courtroom drama and in-depth legal discussions about the pivotal Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case may be surprised by Loving.
Nichols Loving, a Focus Features release. Photo credit: Ben Rothstein / Focus Features. © Focus Features
Loving is wonderful, warmly romantic drama about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, whose Supreme Court case struck down laws that prevented interracial couples from marrying. Although the court case is part of the story, the film is really about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, childhood sweethearts whose deeply romantic love story is the heart of this excellent, touching film.
Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special) directs this fine, realistic, gentle romance story, with fine performances by Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as the couple. The couple’s beautiful love story is the heart of this film.
Audiences expecting a courtroom drama and in-depth legal discussions about the pivotal Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case may be surprised by Loving.
- 11/18/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: The folks behind Stan Lee’s Lucky Man today unveiled the first trailer for Season 2 of the series that’s been a hit for Sky 1 in the UK. The event took place at Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic Con this morning with Lee and exec producer Richard Fell of Carnival Films (also the makers of Downton Abbey and The Last Kingdom) in attendance. Check it out above. The series was renewed for a second run last March after the first 10-part season became Sky 1’s…...
- 10/29/2016
- Deadline TV
Stan ‘The Man’ Lee is teaming up with James Nesbitt and Carnival Films for Lucky Man – a new superhero show set in London…
Hey there, true believers. If you’ve clicked into this news story, or are reading this site at all, you probably know who Stan Lee is. So we’ll get to the point.
The Marvel Comics mogul is coming back to the writing world for a new superhero TV show produced by both Carnival Films (of Downton Abbey fame) and Stan Lee’s own Pow! Entertainment company. The show is called Lucky Man and is set to make its debut on Sky 1 in 2016. NBCUniversal will distribute the show internationally.
James Nesbitt – on a bit of a career high after The Missing and his better-than-most turns in The Hobbit trilogy – will be playing the lead role of a down-on-his-luck London cop, who soon – in true Stan Lee fashion...
Hey there, true believers. If you’ve clicked into this news story, or are reading this site at all, you probably know who Stan Lee is. So we’ll get to the point.
The Marvel Comics mogul is coming back to the writing world for a new superhero TV show produced by both Carnival Films (of Downton Abbey fame) and Stan Lee’s own Pow! Entertainment company. The show is called Lucky Man and is set to make its debut on Sky 1 in 2016. NBCUniversal will distribute the show internationally.
James Nesbitt – on a bit of a career high after The Missing and his better-than-most turns in The Hobbit trilogy – will be playing the lead role of a down-on-his-luck London cop, who soon – in true Stan Lee fashion...
- 4/1/2015
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
Time to jump into spring 2013 with BBC America, which has a slew of great programming: Spies Of Warsaw, The Graham Norton Show, James May.S Man Lab, The Agony And The Ecstacy Of Phil Spector And Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited Spies Of Warsaw . U.S. Premiere Emmy®-winning writing team Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (Across the Universe, Tracey Takes On.) and executive produced by Richard Fell (Outcasts) brings us Spies of Warsaw - based on The New York Times Bestselling author Alan Furst.s acclaimed novel. David Tennant (Broadchurch, Doctor Who, Fright Night) and Janet Montgomery (Made in Jersey, Black Swan, Entourage) star in the thrilling spy story set in Poland, Paris and London in the years leading...
- 3/27/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
On "Project Runway," one designer was moved to tears. But it wasn't his elimination that reduced Daniel to such an emotional state. It was that he had to destroy a pink jacket he had made. He was clearly very attacked to it.
When Tim Gunn came in to assess everyone's progress, he warned that the pink might not be working for Daniel. He'd wanted to avoid making a dress, but then found himself doing exactly that. Even talking about it later in a confessional saw the tears start welling up in his eyes.
"It’s like, you know, when you make something that you really love, but you know you have to destroy it?" he said.
Luckily, he was partnered with Michelle. Despite not even having a single bit of clothing for her model when they came in for fittings, she was ready to go by Runway Day. And then,...
When Tim Gunn came in to assess everyone's progress, he warned that the pink might not be working for Daniel. He'd wanted to avoid making a dress, but then found himself doing exactly that. Even talking about it later in a confessional saw the tears start welling up in his eyes.
"It’s like, you know, when you make something that you really love, but you know you have to destroy it?" he said.
Luckily, he was partnered with Michelle. Despite not even having a single bit of clothing for her model when they came in for fittings, she was ready to go by Runway Day. And then,...
- 3/22/2013
- by Jason Hughes
- Huffington Post
With "Restless" recently on the Sundance Channel, "The Americans" premiering on FX at the end of this month and "Homeland" scooping up awards, spies are all over the small screen at the moment. The latest addition will be two-part miniseries "Spies of Warsaw," which BBC America has slated to air on Wednesday, April 3 and Wednesday, April 10 at 9pm. Adapted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (the screenwriters behind Julie Taymor's "Across the Universe") from the novel by Alan Furst and executive produced by Richard Fell ("Outcasts"), "Spies of Warsaw" stars former "Doctor Who" lead David Tennant as a French military attaché who gets drawn into a world of espionage and intrigue in Warsaw in the years leading up to World War II. Janet Montgomery ("Made in Jersey") plays the Parisian lawyer for the League of Nations, with whom Tennant's character...
- 1/25/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
I met Karen Berger in 1983.
Thirty years ago.
Thirty years is a long time. A lot can happen. And a funny thing happens as the years pass. You look back and you can see how you ended up where you are today. How the chalk drawings of your life have made a graphic novel starring you. It’s a story made up of page-turners and cliffhangers, of happy endings and endings that leave you nauseous with Vertigo.
Like so many others, I was, frankly, shocked when the news broke that Karen is leaving DC this March. (I believe my words were “Holy shit!”) Is this her decision? Is she being pushed out? I’ll leave that issue to others.
This column is, simply put, a love letter to Karen Berger.
Last week Mike Gold wrote, im-not-so-ho, a brilliant column about Karen and her lasting imprint on the comics field, in...
Thirty years ago.
Thirty years is a long time. A lot can happen. And a funny thing happens as the years pass. You look back and you can see how you ended up where you are today. How the chalk drawings of your life have made a graphic novel starring you. It’s a story made up of page-turners and cliffhangers, of happy endings and endings that leave you nauseous with Vertigo.
Like so many others, I was, frankly, shocked when the news broke that Karen is leaving DC this March. (I believe my words were “Holy shit!”) Is this her decision? Is she being pushed out? I’ll leave that issue to others.
This column is, simply put, a love letter to Karen Berger.
Last week Mike Gold wrote, im-not-so-ho, a brilliant column about Karen and her lasting imprint on the comics field, in...
- 12/10/2012
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced Tuesday (April 24) the nominations for its 2012 television awards. British miniseries "Appropriate Adult," which chronicles the real-life serial killer Fred West, leads the way with four nominations.
Other notable nominations include Dame Maggie Smith up for Supporting Actress for her work on "Downton Abbey" - it's the only nomination "Downton" received, after earning two nominations the previous year. "Modern Family" also earned a nomination in the International category.
The full list of nominations:
Leading Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock (BBC One)
Dominic West - Appropriate Adult (ITV)
John Simm - Exile (BBC One)
Joseph Gilgun - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Leading Actress
Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult (ITV1)
Nadine Marshall - Random (Channel 4)
Romola Garai - The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC Two)
Vicky McClure - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Supporting Actor
Andrew Scott - Sherlock...
Other notable nominations include Dame Maggie Smith up for Supporting Actress for her work on "Downton Abbey" - it's the only nomination "Downton" received, after earning two nominations the previous year. "Modern Family" also earned a nomination in the International category.
The full list of nominations:
Leading Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock (BBC One)
Dominic West - Appropriate Adult (ITV)
John Simm - Exile (BBC One)
Joseph Gilgun - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Leading Actress
Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult (ITV1)
Nadine Marshall - Random (Channel 4)
Romola Garai - The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC Two)
Vicky McClure - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Supporting Actor
Andrew Scott - Sherlock...
- 4/24/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
I’ve long believed Warren Ellis is a crime-fiction writer at heart. The first series of Wolfskin was a clear example of sword-and-sorcery comics, but had that distinct Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars feel, a dyed-in-the-wool crook playing both sides. Comics like Aetheric Mechanics and Captain Swing are solid steampunk works, yet revolve around cops-and-robbers shenanigans. One of the driving tenets of our work here at Criminal Complex is that any good story is going to have a vital aspect of crime fiction in there, even if it’s a small one, and the oeuvre of Warren Ellis is about as nearly perfect an example of that as I can find.
But what of the standard detective story? Good, old-fashioned, book-‘em-Dano procedurals? Those may not have the flash-and-bang, the gee-whiz of Ellis’s Doktor Sleepless or Gravel, but they are still a very important aspect of the man’s body of work.
But what of the standard detective story? Good, old-fashioned, book-‘em-Dano procedurals? Those may not have the flash-and-bang, the gee-whiz of Ellis’s Doktor Sleepless or Gravel, but they are still a very important aspect of the man’s body of work.
- 4/2/2012
- by Jimmy Callaway
- Boomtron
Facsimile of Edgar Allan Poe's original manuscript for "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", from the Susan Jaffe Tane collection, Cornell University. Image via Wikipedia.
On this day in 1841 in Philadelphia, Pa, Edgar Allen Poe’s first detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” was published in Graham’s Magazine.
It has been called the first detective story ever, with C. Auguste Dupin as the first true detective in fiction, the precursor of everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Scooby Doo, from Veronica Mars to Angel Investigations, from Castle to Psych. The Dupin character established many literary devices which authors have used ever since: the brilliant detective, his friend who serves as narrator, and the last revelation being presented before the reasoning that leads up to it.
And of course, without detective stories, we don’t have Detective Comics… which means we don’t have either DC or Batman.
On this day in 1841 in Philadelphia, Pa, Edgar Allen Poe’s first detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” was published in Graham’s Magazine.
It has been called the first detective story ever, with C. Auguste Dupin as the first true detective in fiction, the precursor of everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Scooby Doo, from Veronica Mars to Angel Investigations, from Castle to Psych. The Dupin character established many literary devices which authors have used ever since: the brilliant detective, his friend who serves as narrator, and the last revelation being presented before the reasoning that leads up to it.
And of course, without detective stories, we don’t have Detective Comics… which means we don’t have either DC or Batman.
- 4/20/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Around 4 months ago I was trolling my local comic book store looking for something cool to read that was different but fit my tastes for something edgy, dark and mysterious. My comic book clerk friend recommended Warren Ellis’ Fell. Described as a detective story this series would make for a great film series but an even better television series.
For those of you unaware of how this column works, The Pitch finds a remake or what we think is an “unknown” that would translate well on-screen as a television project and/or feature film project. I just analyze the story and create the pitch for Hollywood giving them free ideas. Sure it sounds crazy but you never know one day a studio may come knocking on the Fused Film door.
Back to Fell, because of Warren Ellis’ self contained story each issue feeling episodic, naturally a translation to the television...
For those of you unaware of how this column works, The Pitch finds a remake or what we think is an “unknown” that would translate well on-screen as a television project and/or feature film project. I just analyze the story and create the pitch for Hollywood giving them free ideas. Sure it sounds crazy but you never know one day a studio may come knocking on the Fused Film door.
Back to Fell, because of Warren Ellis’ self contained story each issue feeling episodic, naturally a translation to the television...
- 3/2/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
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