LEFT BANK Pictures is an award-winning independent television and film production company founded in July 2007

 Mad Dogs (Sky 1)

 

 

We are working with the UK’s leading writing, directing and on-screen talent to produce bold, innovative feature films, television dramas and cutting edge comedy.

Strike Back (Sky 1 & HBO/Cinemax)

“DCI Banks is a touch of class… Some really superior writing is going on here” – The Times

DCI Banks (ITV)

We are proud to be at the forefront of high quality, popular film and television for both the UK & international markets.

Wallander (BBC 1)

“Left Bank’s combined portfolio is a benchmark for popular, innovative and quality drama programming… it punches well above its weight” Broadcast

Loving Miss Hatto (BBC)

We pride ourselves on nurturing & championing exciting new talent set to create the hits of tomorrow

Cardinal Burns (Channel 4 / E4)

LEFT BANK Pictures

Left Bank Pictures is a multi award-winning film and television independent production company set up by Chief Executive Andy Harries and Managing Director Marigo Kehoe.

In less than five years it has built up a creative team with a wealth of experience in British filmmaking and broadcasting. In 2012 Sony Pictures Television took a majority stake in the company signalling a significant move into scripted production for Sony in the UK.

Left Bank Pictures has produced major drama series for the BBC / WGBH, ITV1, Sky1 HD, and HBO / Cinemax, two comedy series for E4 and motion pictures for Sony Pictures, Europacorp and Optimum Releasing with many more projects in development.

Named Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards in 2011, Left Bank Pictures has a portfolio of films and series have been recognised by the Golden Globes, Emmy’s, Academy Awards, BAFTA and Royal Television Society amongst many other award ceremonies.

Working with the UK’s leading writing, directing and on-screen talent to produce bold, innovative feature films, television dramas and cutting edge comedy Left Bank Pictures prides itself on nurturing and championing
exciting new talent set to create the hits of tomorrow.

 

 

Working with the UK’s
leading writing, directing
and on-screen talent
"Left Bank are a benchmark
for popular, innovative, and quality
quality drama programming” Broadcast, 2012

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  • Married Single Other

    Six friends discover the difficulties of living with, and without, the one you love. Sexy, funny and true to life, Married, Single, Other tells the story of three couples trying to work out what a couple is these days.

    Through love, passion, heartbreak and tragedy Lillie, Eddie, Clint, Abbey, Babs and Dickie contemplate the meaning of ‘happily ever after’: It’s never as simple as “I do”.

    CREDITS

    6 × 60’ for ITV1 Transmitted between 22nd – 29th February 2010

    Starring: Shaun Dooley, Lucy Davis, Dean Lennox Kelly, Amanda Abbington, Ralf Little and Miranda Raison

    Written & Created by: Peter Souter
    Directors: Declan Lowney and Charles Martin
    Producer: Radford Neville
    Executive Producers: Andy Harries, Francis Hopkinson & Peter Souter

    "Married, Single, Other tells the story of three couples trying to work out what a couple is these days"

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    School of Comedy Series 2

    School of Comedy is back with an extended cast made up entirely of children. See the return of all the hit characters from series one: saffas, museumperv, cabbie, the wisecrackers and meet a raft of brand new pint-sized characters – the sweeneyfessionals, leonard lizzard, blind bitch and a full run of MR mills, the most inappropriate school teacher in the UK. Feel good, risque and a touch surreal.

    School of Comedy continues to reinvent the good old fashioned sketch show, but with little people.

    6 × 30 for E4
    TX: Mondays 13th September – 11th October 2010, 10:30pm

    Director: Steve Connelly
    Writers: Barunka O’Shaughnessy, Toby Davies and a team of top writers!
    Series Produced and Devised by: Laura Lawson
    Producer: Jenna Jones
    Head of Production: Marigo Kehoe

    Meet a raft of brand new pint-sized characters...

  • Father & Son

    Set against the backdrop of Ireland’s rapid economic resurgence, Father & Son depicts the complexity of modern inner city life where crime is now a global business and gun culture is an ever more entrenched part of everyday life. Ex-criminal, Michael O’Connor (Dougray Scott) returns to Manchester from a quiet life in Ireland to save his teenage son from prison, but also to redeem his own troubled past.

    Nominated for Best Single Drama / Serial, Best Script & Best Supporting Actor (Stephen Rea)

    CREDITS

    4 × 60 for itv, in association with rte
    Transmitted on rte One in Ireland between 29th June – 20th July 2009
    UK TX was 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th June 2010

    Starring: Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea and Ian Hart
    Writer: Frank Deasy
    Director: Brian Kirk
    Producer: Michael Casey
    Executive Producer: Andy Harries

  • Zen

    Set in and around Rome, and based on the best-selling novels by the late Michael Dibdin, Rufus Sewell stars as the fictional Italian detective Aurelio Zen. Vendetta, Cabal & Ratking will feature many of the combined attractions of Italy and the Dibdin novels – thrilling investigations, fun, passion, warmth and beautiful people.

    Three 90 minute films produced by LEFT BANK Pictures for the BBC in association with RTI (Mediaset Group), Masterpiece on PBS and ZDF with additional funding from BBC Worldwide, Ingenious and Lipsync.

    TX: Sunday 2nd, 9th & 16th January 2011, 9pm on BBC 1

    Vendetta:
    Screenplay by: Simon Burke (Sons & Lovers, White Teeth)
    Directed by: John Alexander (Small Island, Sense & Sensibility)
    Producer: Michael Casey (My Boy Jack, Father & Son)

    Cabal:
    Screenplay by: Simon Burke
    Directed by: Chris Menaul
    Producer: Michael Casey

    Ratking:
    Screenplay by: Simon Burke
    Directed by: Jon Jones
    Producer: Michael Casey

    Thrilling investigations, fun, passion, warmth and beautiful people

     

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    Mad Dogs Series 3

    Shot on location in Cape Town, South Africa, a third series of the hit black comedy starring Max Beesley, Philip Glenister, John Simm and Marc Warren is due for transmission in early 2013.

    Series One proved a big success with viewers, gaining a loyal weekly audience to become the eleventh most watched programme in Sky 1’s history. The programme received a BAFTA nomination for Drama Serial, adding to Sky’s record number of bafta nominations this year in its entire 20 year history.

    CREDITS

    4 × 60” for Sky 1 HD
    Coming to Sky 1 in early 2013

    Max Beesley, Philip Glenister, John Simm & Marc Warren

    Written & Created by: Cris Cole
    Directed by: Adrian Shergold
    Executive Producers: Andy Harries, Suzanne Mackie & Huw Kennair-Jones

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    Strike Back Series 3

    The hit action series strike back will return to Sky1 HD in 2012 for a third season of ten new episodes, which will begin shooting in South Africa in early 2012 and air later in the year. The third series will once again be a co-production between Sky and cinemax/HBO and will be produced by Left Bank Pictures. The series was commissioned by Sky’s Head of Drama, Anne Mensah and will be Executive Produced for Sky by Huw Kennair-Jones. Left Bank’s Andy Harries will return as Executive Producer, along with Series Producer Michael Casey and Head of Production Marigo Kehoe.

    CREDITS

    10 X 60’ for hbo Cinemax / Sky - Currently shooting in South Africa.

    Lead writer: Tony Saint - Lead Director: Bill Eagles

    Series Producer: Michael Casey - Producers: Trevor Hopkins, Chris Clough

    Executive Producers: Andy Harries (left Bank), Huw Kennair-Jones(Sky)

    "It's awesome! Everything that's capable of exploding explodes" The Guardian

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    Wallander Series 3

    Kenneth Branagh returns as Inspector Wallander in three new detective dramas based on two best-selling novels Before The Frost & The Dogs of Riga, by Henning Mankell, with the third adaptation based on Mankell’s short story The Grave.

    The heart of the 3rd series will focus on Kurt Wallander’s relationship with his ever maturing daughter following the death of his father, and will be set in Southern Sweden for the first and third episodes and Riga, Latvia and Sweden for the second episode.

    CREDITS

    3 × 90’ for BBC One

    Producer: Sanne Wohlenberg / UK Executive Producers: Andy Harries, Kenneth Branagh

    Directors:
    Toby Haynes (An Event in Autumn)
    Esther May Campbell (The Dogs of Riga)
    Charles Martin (Before the Frost)

    Writer: Peter Harness

    A Left Bank Pictures / Yellowbird / tkbcProduction for the bbc. Co-Produced with ardDegeto, wgbh Boston and Film I Skane & TV4. Made with support from Region of Skane, City of Ystad-Osterlen Film Bond, Sweden.

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    DCI Banks Series 2

    Stephen Tompkinson returns as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, in the hit series based on the novels of the award-winning crime writer Peter Robinson. In three new adaptations (Strange Affair, Dry Bones That Dream & Innocent Graves), Banks must come to terms with dramatic changes to his team, as DS Annie Cabbot’s impending maternity leave leads to the arrival of DI Helen Morton as a brilliant, accomplished, but socially inept addition to the Yorkshire Major Crimes Unit.

    Starring
    Stephen Tompkinson, Andrea Lowe, Caroline Catz, Lorraine Burroughs & Jack Deam
    Written by
    Robert Murphy, Rob Williams, Andrew Payne & Rob Williams
    Producer
    Emma Kingsman-Lloyd
    Directed by
    Tim Fywell, Jim Loach, Mat King
    Executive Producers
    Robert Murphy, Charles Elton, Andy Harries

    “DCI Banks is a touch of class… Some really superior writing is going on here” – The Times

     

  • Cardinal Burns

    Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns, otherwise known as charasmatic comedy duo Cardinal Burns, bring their acclaimed sketches to E4. The six half-hour series will be infused with imagination, nuanced characters and cartoonish writing for which Cardinal Burns have built an impressive reputation on the live comedy circuit.

    Cardinal Burns have performed to sell-out audiences across the country, from their critically acclaimed debut at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe to a successful run at London’s Soho Theatre in 2010. Their sketch show for E4 will be their first solo TV project.

    AWARDS:
    Best Sketch Show (British Comedy Awards 2012)
    Best Multichannel Programme (Broadcast Award 2013)
    Best Comedy (Broadcast Award 2013)

    “A rare treat: a funny sketch show” Bob Mortimer

    6 × 30 for E4
    Written & performed by: Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns.

    Director: Ben Taylor
    Producer: Jenna Jones
    Executive Producer: Andy Harries

     “...bold, imaginiative, original, and dead funny” The Guardian

  • Loving Miss Hatto

     

    Loving Miss Hatto charts the incredible story of pianist Joyce Hatto, her relationship with her husband and the controversial recordings that made her famous late in life.

    Writer Victoria Wood says: “Loving Miss Hatto is a screenplay inspired by the true story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto and her husband Barrie. It begins with their meeting in the grey shabby London of the early fifties and ends in the twenty first century in a cul-de-sac in Royston, Hertfordshire. This is a story of two young people with high hopes who, like most of us, get bashed in the face by life. It is, above all – a love story.”

     

    CREDITS

    A single drama for BBC One (due to TX Christmas 2012)

    Written by Victoria Wood
    Starring Francesca Annis and Alfred Molina

    Director: Aisling Walsh (Wallander)
    Producer: Radford Neville (The Borrowers)
    Executive Producers: Charles Elton, Andy Harries

    Produced by Left Bank Pictures in association with Octagon Films with financing from Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board.

    For press enquires please contact:
    Ian Johnson Publicity [email protected]
    Telephone: +44 (0)20 7836 3030

  • Ice Cream Girls

     

    Left Bank Pictures are adapting The Ice Cream Girls, which will become the first drama to be distributed by Sony Pictures Television since acquiring the indie in July.

    It follows two teenage girls accused of murdering their schoolteacher and forced to go their separate ways. After 17 years they are reunited in the seaside town they fled and are forced to confront each other and their shared history.

    The drama will feature Lorraine Burroughs (DCI Banks, Fast Girls, Spooks) and Jodhi May (The Scapegoat, The Jury, Strike Back) as the lead characters. It will be set in the present with events from the past unfolding through flashbacks.

     “The quality of Kate Brooke’s scripts has attracted a fantastic cast and we’re delighted to be working on such a gripping contemporary thriller with Left Bank Pictures”
    Laura Mackie, ITV

    CREDITS

    3 x 60' for ITV 1
    Currently shooting in Dublin.

    Cast: Lorraine Burroughs &  Jodhi May
    Writer: Kate Brooke
    (based a best selling novel by Dorothy Koomson)
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Producer: Lucy Dyke
    Executive Producers: Andy Harries & Charles Elton

"It's awesome! Everything that's capable
of exploding explodes."
- The Guardian

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  • The Damned United

    Set in 1960’s and 1970’s England, the damnedunited tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United.

    the damned united stars Michael Sheen (The Deal, The Queen, Frost/Nixon) as the legendary, opinionated football manager Brian Clough with Timothy Spall (Secrets and Lies, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sweeney Todd) as his right hand man, only friend, and crutch Peter Taylor. Colm Meaney (Layer Cake, Intermission, The Commitments) plays Clough’s nemesis Don Revie. Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Longford, Iris) plays Sam Longson, Derby Chairman.

    CREDITS

    BBc Films/ Columbia Pictures Industries Inc/ Screen Yorkshire

    UK Release: March 27 2009
    Cert: 15

    Starring: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney & Jim Broadbent
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Writer: Peter Morgan

  • All In Good Time

    The big screen adaptation of the Olivier Award Winning play, Rafta Rafta, by Ayub Khan Din (East Is East) produced for the National Theatre, based on the Bill Naughton play All In Good Time.

    reece ritchie (The Lovely Bones) andamara karan (The Darjeeling Limited) star as Atul Dutt and his young bride Vina for whom married life is proving far from straightforward, with meera syal (Anita and Me) andharish time for bed, Atul is so woefully inhibited by the proximity of his parents, let alone his brother’s childish pranks, that his beautiful virgin bride remains just that.

    When their hard saved for honeymoon is cancelled the next day, the couple is forced to return to the Dutt household and set up home there. So with meddling parents, nosy neighbours and a community that thrives on gossip, can this marriage last? And it’s up to Atul’s parents to face up to some home truths about their own marriage and not pass their mistakes on to the next generation.

  • The Lady

    A Luc Besson film, the lady is one of the greatest love stories set against a background of polictial turmoil which continues today. It is the extraordinary story of how Aung San Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) and her husband Michael Aris (David Thewlis) gave up their happiness at great cost when the wife’s country called upon her. Yet despite distance, long separations, danger and an actively hostile regime their love endured until the end.

    the lady tells the story of Burma’s democracy movement and the woman at the centre of it, it’s inspiration and hope. Burma’s desperate struggle still goes on today and both “The Lady”, as she is popularly known and the country still refuse to give up their goal.

    Burma’s desperate struggle still goes on today and both “The Lady”, as she is popularly known and the country still refuse to give up their goal.

  • Zen

    Set in and around Rome, and based on the best-selling novels by the late Michael Dibdin, Rufus Sewell stars as the fictional Italian detective Aurelio Zen. Vendetta, Cabal & Ratking will feature many of the combined attractions of Italy and the Dibdin novels – thrilling investigations, fun, passion, warmth and beautiful people.

    Michael Dibdin lived in Italy for many years and had 11 Zen books published, which continue to entertain readers around the world. He died three years ago. His novels won many awards including the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for Ratking.

    Michael Dibdin lived in Italy for many years and had 11 Zen books published

We pride ourselves on nurturing
& championing exciting new talent
set to create the hits of tomorrow.

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