ITV Orders ‘Saviour’ Drama From Peter Moffat, Nisha Parti, Imran Mahmood

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 method dwelling, 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. Operating parallel with Ben’s story, the viewers is launched to Indy, a felony barrister. Casting will probably 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 embody Showtime’s Your Honor and the BBC’s Felony File, and who’s presently penning an ITV drama in regards to 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 felony barrister whose first novel, You Don’t Know Me, turned a BBC drama starring Sophie Wilde. Parti Productions and Physician Foster maker Drama Republic are producing Saviour.

Mahmood mentioned: “I’ve at all times wished to make use of my expertise as a felony barrister to discover the actual felony justice system at work – each its strengths and its failings, and there’s no higher medium than the display screen to discover it.”

The sequence was greenlit by ITV drama boss Polly Hill and Helen Ziegler, with the latter overseeing manufacturing. Parti mentioned 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 certainly one of quite a few 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 also be “reimagining” the court docket of Henry VIII by way of a interval drama a couple of younger Elizabeth I from a trio of ex-Gray’s Anatomy showrunners, we revealed final week.