ITV1 turns to Harley Street for new medical drama
Hotel Babylon producer Carnival Films is making a medical drama for ITV1 called Harley Street.
The series is set in London’s famous medical district and will tell the stories of a team of GPs and specialists establishing a new practice.
The six-part series has been written by newcomer Marston Bloom and will show how ordinary people turn to private medicine.
Carnival managing director Gareth Neame said: “Harley Street will be an original medical show. Uniquely, it won’t be concerned with politics and finding cures on a restricted budget - the modus operandi of most British medical shows.”
ITV director of drama Laura Mackie said: “It’s great to have a contemporary, aspirational medical drama for ITV1. It’s a series that offers all the ingredients viewers traditionally enjoy in this genre - life and death situations, varied medical stories but told in the very different world of private medicine.”
Carnival is also behind the forthcoming ITV1 drama series Whistleblower, written by Tony Marchant, and The Old Curiosity Shop, also for ITV1.
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