LEFT BANK Pictures is an award-winning independent television and film production company founded in July 2007
Mad Dogs (Sky 1)

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
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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
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
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
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
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
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)
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.
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
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
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.
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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
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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
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.
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.
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

Chief Executive
Andy started his career as an award-winning documentary maker, producing and directing films for Arena, Omnibus, The South Bank Show and the Emmy-nominated Africa for Channel 4. He later moved into the world of comedy directing and producing Lenny Henry’s feature film Lenny: Live and Unleashed.
Prior to establishing Left Bank Pictures, Andy Harries was Controller of Drama, Comedy and Film for Granada Productions. During this period (2000 – 2007) he produced a huge range of dramas, comedies and films for ITV1 and other broadcasters.

Managing Director
Marigo started her career in commercials before freelancing as a line producer. She worked as apfm for Channel 4 drama, moving on to become Head of Production for Drama at Tiger Aspect.
From 2001 to 2007 she worked with Andy Harries at Granada as Head of Production for Drama, Comedy, Factual Drama and Film overseeing output including Life Begins, Longford, The Street, The Deal, Dirty Filthy Love and the returns of Cracker and Prime Suspect. She oversaw the feature films Pierrepoint and The Queen and in 2007 launched Left Bank Pictures with Andy Harries.

Finance Director
Grace qualified as an accountant in 2000 and has worked in a variety of areas including the public sector, retail and law before joining Tiger Aspect Productions in 2004.
When Tiger Aspect were acquired by img in June 2006, the due diligence process and the need to prepare the accounts in US gaap provided invaluable experience. Grace left Tiger Aspect in August 2007 to join Left Bank Pictures as Finance Director.

Head of Film
Alongside writer Cris Cole, Suzanne Mackie originated Mad Dogs for Sky One, three series of which she has now Executive Produced. Mad Dogs I was nominated for a bafta for best drama series in 2011 and has won a number of other nominations and awards.
Previously, Suzanne was Development Executive at Harbour Pictures from 1994 having formerly worked for bbc Drama Serials. After securing a first-look deal with Buena Vista International Suzanne originated and produced her first feature film Calendar Girls, in 2002/3 for Buena Vista.

Executive Producer
Michael Casey founded Green Park Films in Belfast in 1998 going on to develop and produce several independent films – freeze frame,middletown, and cherrybomb. He also co-produced a number of UK and Irish films including the mighty celt, w delta z and kings.
In 2007 Michael produced the award-winning television film MY boy jack for Ecosse Films & itv. The following year he began producing for Left Bank Pictures beginning with father& son in Dublin before moving onto zen in Rome and then strike back 2 in Cape Town and Budapest.

Head of Business Affairs
Charlie trained as a lawyer at Clifford Chance and qualified in 2001. He left the city to work for a literary agency and went on to solidify his experience in media law by returning to private practice, working accross both television and film projects at Harbottle and Lewis.
Charlie moved in-house in 2008 to work at Power Television dealing with all aspectes of development, production and exploitation of television and film projects. He joined Left Bank in 2010 as Head of Business Affairs.

Producer/Development Producer, Comedy
Jenna began her career in live entertainment in a variety of roles on shows such as The Brits,baftas, Strictly Come Dancing, The Games and Big Brother.
In 2004 Jenna was a researcher and AP on numerous factual entertainment programmes atrdf, Endemol and iwc Media before joining Andy at itv drama and comedy with a view to producing scripted programming.
Jenna joined Left Bank Pictures in July 2007 and has recently produced School of Comedy for E4.

Development Producer
Gabriel started out in factual entertainment where he worked as an archive researcher, a producer of current affairs shows and a gallery director for the big screen pre-match entertainment at Arsenal FC, amongst other things.
Changing lanes to drama, he joined Granada in 2003 as a script editor working across a raft of their productions, then moved on to Kudos where he script edited Spooks and Life on Mars. After a stint co-Producing the Christies and Waking the Dead he joined Left Bank Pictures as Development Producer on the second series of the Sky/Cinemax action hit Strike Back. He is developing the third series of the show and working across other areas of development.

Production Executive
Zoe started her career on Teachers, NY-lon and The Government Inspector for Channel 4 and ITV’s Dirty Filthy Love, before becoming production co-ordinator for a number of TV dramas including The Queen’s Sister, Cracker and The Sally Lockhart Mysteries.
Zoe has also worked on the feature films Run, Fat Boy, Run and the Oscar-winning movie The Queen. As production manager Zoe worked with Richard Curtis on Live 8 and two special charity episodes of American Idol: Idol Gives Back. She recently worked on the first series of Wallander before starting in September 2008 at Left Bank Pictures as production executive across all productions.
Script Editor / Researcher
After working for Miramax Films and director Guy Ritchie in the late 90s, Kerry joined Granada Drama in 2000, initially working as a producer’s assistant on DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. She then went on to become the researcher for the department working with the writer Peter Morgan, Andy and Marigo on such projects as THE DEAL, LONGFORD and THE QUEEN.
Kerry left ITV to join Andy and Marigo at LEFT BANK PICTURES at its inception in July 2007 and Left Bank projects worked on include THE DAMNED UNITED, FATHER AND SON and STRIKE BACK. Her most recent work was script editing the upcoming, Victoria Wood penned LOVING MISS HATTO. She is currently working across a number of projects in development.

Producer
Lucy began her career working with Paul Greengrass on the award-winning factual drama films Bloody Sunday and Omagh. She worked as a script editor at Tiger Aspect, before joining Element Pictures in Dublin to run their TV development slate in 2004. She then produced three short films before moving back to London in 2008.
At Left Bank, Lucy has script edited shows including the series Married, Single, Other and is developing several new projects. In 2012 she produced the three-part ITV drama, The Ice Cream Girls. She is currently producing a single film written by Simon Nye about the legendary comedian Tommy Cooper.

Producer/Director
Steven graduated with a BA Hons in Popular Music from the University of Liverpool in 2004, specialising in Music for the Moving Image.
He joined Left Bank Pictures in 2008 and heads digital development and design across all Left Bank projects. Steven also directs and produces documentary for broadcast and short-form content to support new and existing productions.
Most recently, Steven has directed and produced three documentaries for Sky 1: STRIKE BACK: LOCKED & RELOADED, MAD DOGS: BEHIND THE MADNESS and JASON MANFORD’S LITTLE CRACKER.

Script Editor
Lindsay graduated from Bristol University in 2006, where she studied Drama, Theatre, Film and Television. Shortly afterwards she started at TalkbackThames, working on a number of projects including the bbc One series The Apprentice.
Lindsay left TalkbackThames in 2008 to work in drama and joined Left Bank Pictures as Assistant to Andy, Francis and Marigo.
In June 2010 Lindsay joined the development team as Script Editor.

Script Editor
Nick studied History at Oxford University until 2006. After graduating, he joined Power Television, eventually joining the development team, where he worked on a number of drama projects including Crusoe, a primetime series fornbc in America and The Day of the Triffids forbbc One.
In early 2011, he joined the story department on the bbc series Holby City where he researched and wrote storylines for the continuing drama.
Nick joined Left Bank Pictures as a Script Editor in August 2011.

Assistant Development Producer, Comedy
Claire graduated from the University of Manchester in 2007 with a 1st in Drama. She started her career as a freelancer working both on set and in Production of various Film and Television projects, including Harry Potter and ITV’s Wuthering Heights.
Claire first worked with Left Bank Pictures as Coordinator for Production and Post-Production in 2008 on The Damned United and subsequently Wallander series II, before joining Left Bank as their in-house Coordinator in 2010. During this time Claire production managed the School of Comedy Edinburgh Festival show and the Cardinal Burns’ Taster Tape. In July 2012 Claire joined the Comedy Department as Assistant Development Producer.

Production and Post-Production Coordinator
Harry graduated in 2011 with a 1st Class degree in Television Production from Bournemouth University. He started his career working freelance on a number of shows including ITV’s Marchlands (whilst still at Uni) and Sky’s Hunderby.
He first worked with Left Bank on Cardinal Burns in late 2011, and joined in Summer 2012 as Production and Post-Production Coordinator.

Production Finance Manager
Sean has worked in finance within the media industry since 2003 where he worked within the finance department for Sanctuary Records Group, he then moved on to work for Dales Evans Accountants where his clients were all bands, musicians or individuals based within the music industry. He then joined the Jamie Oliver Group of companies, specifically working within the group for Fresh One Productions, working on all Jamie Oliver’s TV productions and then later on other documentaries and lifestyle productions. Sean joined Left Bank in August 2011 to focus on drama and film productions.

Management Accountant
Dave graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2003 with a BA Honours in Accounting. He began his career working in the legal sector, before moving into television in 2007, working as a finance manager at Shine.
Following a short spell working in the telecommunications industry, Dave returned to television in 2010, joining the Left Bank team as a management accountant.

Assistant to Andy Harries and Marigo Kehoe
Georgina graduated from the University of Bristol with a First Class honours degree in Theatre, Film and Television in 2011.
She then worked as an assistant film co-ordinator at the British Independent Film Awards and a Production and Rushes runner on Cuba Pictures’ second feature film Broken.
Georgina also worked as an assistant to two literary agents at Curtis Brown before joining Left Bank in May 2012 as Andy and Marigo’s PA.

Creative Assistant
Jez studied Philosophy at Durham University and later gained an MA in Screenwriting and Producing. He began his career as a runner at Teddington Studios and went on to intern in and around the film industry at companies such as Working Title and Scott Free, eventually taking over as the assistant to the Head of BBC Films.
In December 2011 he moved to Left Bank Pictures to assist Andy and Suzanne on the film slate.

Production Assistant
Aimee graduated from The University of Birmingham in 2010, where she studied Drama and Theatre Arts. Whilst at University she completed various work placements with the BBC, Zenith Entertainment, RDF & Tiger Aspect.
Soon after graduating Aimee started as Production Secretary for BBC’s daytime drama Doctors, before joining the script & development team as Serial Researcher.
Aimee left Doctors at the end of 2011 and joined Left Bank as Production Assistant in May 2012.
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