STV Group PLC STV Productions Secures Drama Series Commission
25 August 2017 - 12:46AM
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24 August 2017
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STV PRODUCTIONS SECURES DRAMA SERIES COMMISSION
24(th) August 2017
STV Productions has secured its first BBC drama series
commission. The four part thriller for BBC One, The Victim -
written by Rob Williams (The Man in the High Castle, Chasing
Shadows) - will be filmed in Scotland early next year.
Executive producers are Sarah Brown and Rob Williams for STV
Productions and Elizabeth Kilgarriff and Gaynor Holmes for BBC
One.
Sarah Brown, head of drama at STV Productions, said: "We are
thrilled to have secured this commission from the BBC and excited
to start filming in Scotland.
"STV is committed to investing in the Scottish creative
industries and this high quality drama will be a great boost for TV
production in Scotland.
"I look forward to working with the team at BBC One to make a
captivating thriller that will challenge the audience, raise some
thought-provoking questions and have viewers hooked from the very
start."
The Victim is a gripping, contemporary legal thriller told
through the eyes of the plaintiff and the accused. Set in
Edinburgh, within Scotland's unique legal system, the show offers a
constantly surprising and twisting perspective on who is really
'the victim'.
Carl, a hard working family man from Dundee, is the victim of a
random, unprovoked attack, after being identified online as a
notorious child murderer living under a new identity. With his life
collapsing around him, should Carl keep his head down and pray for
the smoke to clear - or try to prove his innocence? Is he simply
the tragic victim of mistaken identity or the dangerous killer he
is suspected of being?
Anna is the mother of a teenage boy who was murdered twenty
years ago by a then fourteen-year old boy. Having campaigned to be
told of the killer's new identity and whereabouts, she is then
accused of revealing his identity online and conspiring to have him
murdered. Has the anger of a grieving mother turned her into a
criminal too? What exactly is she guilty of - and what is she
capable of doing in her son's name?
Played out through the lens of one criminal trial, moral
dilemmas will be thrown up and sides will be taken in these two
very different quests for justice.
The Victim has been commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of
BBC Drama, and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content.
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For further information, please contact the STV press
office:-
Ellen Drummond
0141 300 3341
ellen.drummond@stv.tv
Anna Hendry
0141 300 3830
anna.hendry@stv.tv
STV Productions
STV Productions is one of the UK's leading content businesses
with ambitious plans for domestic and international growth.
The company has a record of success across a range of genres,
including drama, entertainment and factual, for a wide range of
broadcasters. Ratings winner Antiques Road Trip has run for
fourteen series on the BBC, along with a further six series of
sister programme Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. A further four
series of Antiques Road Trip and a seventh series of Celebrity
Antiques Road Trip are now in production.
In entertainment, the company has produced five series of
Catchphrase for ITV, and two series of Safeword for ITV2, as well
as new reality format Tour de Celeb for Channel 5 and The Dressing
Room for UKTV's entertainment channel W.
Specialist factual successes have included Tutankhamun: The
Truth Uncovered for BBC1, Smithsonian Channel and Discovery Canada
and Swallowed By The Sea - Ancient Egypt's Greatest Lost City for
BBC2 and Life After: Chernobyl for Animal Planet US.
In documentaries, Dunblane: Our Story for BBC2, commemorating
one of the most tragic days in Scotland's modern history, won a
BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Single Documentary.
Other STV Productions documentaries include: Prison: First and
Last 24 hours, with a second eight-part series on Sky1; Scotland
and the Battle for Britain presented by Andrew Marr for BBC Two;
The Lockerbie Bombing for the Smithsonian Channel and ITV; The 7/7
Bombing: Survivors' Stories for ITV; Rollermania for BBC Scotland
and BBC4; The Queen Mary: Greatest Ocean Liner, a documentary for
BBC Scotland, BBC Four and Smithsonian Channel; and Fire in the
Night, a feature documentary to mark the 25(th) anniversary of the
Piper Alpha disaster, which won a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best
Single Documentary and the Audience Award at the Edinburgh
International Film Festival. The latest STV documentary commission,
for ITV's autumn 2017 'Crime & Punishment' series, is the film
Ross Kemp In Jail - Inside Barlinnie.
STV Productions has a track record of producing quality
returnable drama series including Taggart and Rebus with ambitions
to build on this reputation. In the last five years it has produced
Fast Freddie and The Poison Tree, both for ITV. It currently has a
number of script commissions from the BBC and ITV.
STV Productions works with a number of leading international
sales agents that distribute STV Productions' completed programmes
and formats outside the UK.
In August 2015, STV Productions entered a strategic development
partnership with Motion Content Group to create new entertainment,
factual and drama projects for the UK and international
markets.
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