Carnival Films is a British television

British television

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 production company, founded by Brian Eastman

Brian Eastman

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 in 1978 as Picture Partnership Productions Limited and run by Gareth Neame since 2005. The company swiftly built up a strong reputation as an independent production company of theatre, film and television drama. It has produced television series such as Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster

-External links:*—An episode guide to the series, including information about which episodes were adapted from which Wodehouse stories.*—Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series....

, Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

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, Traffik

Traffik

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, and As If

As If

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as well as Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough

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's critically acclaimed feature film Shadowlands

Shadowlands

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starring Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

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. More recently the company has produced popular long-running drama series such as Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon was a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One...

(BBC One

BBC One

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) and Rosemary & Thyme

Rosemary & Thyme

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(ITV

ITV

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) as well as programmes such as Midnight Man

Midnight Man (TV serial)

Midnight Man is a 2008 British television serial produced by Carnival Films for the ITV network. The three-part serial stars James Nesbitt as Max Raban, a former investigative journalist who discovers an international conspiracy involving government policy groups and death squads...

, Enid

Enid (film)

Enid is a British dramatic television film first broadcast on 16 November 2009 on BBC Four. Directed by James Hawes it is based on the life of children's writer Enid Blyton, portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. The film introduced the two main lovers of Blyton's life. Her first husband Hugh Pollock,...

(one of BBC Four

BBC Four

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’s highest rating dramas of all time) and Whitechapel

Whitechapel (TV series)

Whitechapel is a three-part British television drama series produced by Carnival Films, which first broadcast in the UK on 2 February 2009 and which dealt with the murders of Jack the Ripper....

(the highest rating new UK drama in 2009).

In August 2008, Neame sold Carnival to NBC Universal

NBC Universal

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 under the Studio’s new strategy of moving productions outside America and produced The Philanthropist

The Philanthropist (TV series)

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for NBC Studios

NBC Studios

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 shortly thereafter. The acquisition of Carnival marked NBC's first UK acquisition and includes Carnival's back catalogue.

In 2010 Carnival produced the first series of Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes

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’ drama Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

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for ITV, and has been commissioned to produce another. It has also made William Boyd

William Boyd (writer)

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's Any Human Heart

Any Human Heart (TV series)

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for Channel 4

Channel 4

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as well as a sequel to Whitechapel.