EXCLUSIVE: Your Honor creator Peter Moffat is teaming with Nisha Parti (The Boy with the Topknot) and Imran Mahmood (You Don’t Know Me) on an ITV drama that it says will “reimagine the crime and courtroom style.”
Saviour will comply with medical scholar Ben, who goes to a fancy-dress celebration in his dad’s police uniform. Ben solely has eyes for Xenia, and when he sees her being attacked by a person on his means house, he has no selection however to intervene, urged on by a bystander innocently assuming he’s an actual police officer. When issues go awry, he makes a determined name to his dad, who tells Ben precisely what to do subsequent. Working parallel with Ben’s story, the viewers is launched to Indy, a prison barrister. Casting might be revealed at a date nearer to filming subsequent yr.
ITV branded Saviour a “refreshing reimagining of the crime and courtroom style.” Double-BAFTA winner Moffat, whose previous credit embrace Showtime’s Your Honor and the BBC’s Prison Document, and who’s at the moment penning an ITV drama concerning the contaminated blood scandal, is EPing alongside Parti, who was behind the BBC’s BAFTA-nominated characteristic The Boy with the Topknot. The pair have enlisted first-time TV author Mahmood to jot down Saviour. Mahmood is a former prison barrister whose first novel, You Don’t Know Me, grew to become a BBC drama starring Sophie Wilde. Parti Productions and Physician Foster maker Drama Republic are producing Saviour.
Mahmood stated: “I’ve all the time needed to make use of my expertise as a prison barrister to discover the true prison justice system at work – each its strengths and its failings, and there’s no higher medium than the display screen to discover it.”
The collection was greenlit by ITV drama boss Polly Hill and Helen Ziegler, with the latter overseeing manufacturing. Parti stated she is “so grateful to Polly Hill and ITV for seeing the potential in our script and giving us an opportunity to make this splendidly gripping story.”
Based on Broadcast Journal, Parti was one among a lot of producers from under-represented backgrounds who lately met with senior broadcasting execs together with at ITV to debate assist for diverse-led manufacturing outfits.
“Reimagining” conventional precincts seems to be a precedence for ITV at current. The community can be “reimagining” the courtroom of Henry VIII by way of a interval drama a few younger Elizabeth I from a trio of ex-Gray’s Anatomy showrunners, we revealed final week.
