Clerkenwell Films is an award-winning British

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 film and television production company

Production company

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, which has produced several drama and comedy programmes for the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

, the ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 network, Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 and E4 in the United Kingdom

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. It was co-founded by the actor John Hannah

John Hannah (actor)

John David Hannah is a Scottish actor of film and television. He has appeared in Stephen Sommers' Mummy Series, Richard Curtis' Four Weddings and a Funeral and Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow...

 and the producer Murray Ferguson. Notable programmes produced by the company have included the BAFTA award-winning Misfits

Misfits (TV series)

Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television series about a group of young offenders forced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The first series started broadcasting on 12 November 2009 on E4, and was...

, the initial adaptations of the Rebus

Rebus (TV series)

Rebus is the title of the detective drama based on the Inspector Rebus novels by the Scottish author Ian Rankin set in and around Edinburgh produced by STV Productions for the ITV Network....

novels (initially starring Hannah as well as Art Attack

Art Attack

Art Attack is a British children's television series revolving around art. The original series was one of ITV's longest running programmes, running from 1990 to 2007, and was presented throughout by Neil Buchanan. The brand new series launched on Disney Junior on June 6 2011 and is presented by...

, now produced by SMG Productions

SMG Productions

STV Productions is the television production arm of the STV Group plc, and incorporates Ginger Productions. Headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, and with an office in London, England, the company's output includes drama, factual, entertainment and children's programming for broadcast on television...

), the supernatural thriller Afterlife

Afterlife (TV series)

Afterlife is a British television drama series, produced by independent production company Clerkenwell Films for the ITV network...

starring Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln, the award-winning adaptation of Persuasion

Persuasion (2007 TV drama)

Persuasion is an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name published in 1818. The TV-film premiered on 1 April 2007 on the UK channel ITV at 9pm, as part of their Jane Austen Season...

starring Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones and The Diary of a Nobody, adapted by Andrew Davies.