Production company | |
Industry | Television Production |
Founded | 1978 (as Picture Partnership Productions Ltd.) 1988 (as Carnival Film and Theatre Ltd.) 2006 (as Carnival Film & Television Ltd.) |
Founder |
Brian Eastman Leszek Burzynski |
Key people
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Gareth Neame (Managing Director) David O'Donoghue (Chief Operating Officer) Aliboo Bradbury (Head of Business Affairs) Nigel Marchant (Executive Producer) Richard Fell (Executive Producer) |
Products | Motion pictures, television programmes |
Owner |
NBCUniversal (Comcast) |
Parent | Universal Studios |
Website | http://www.carnivalfilms.co.uk |
Carnival Films is a British television production company based in London, UK, founded in 1978. It has produced television series for all the major UK networks including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky, as well as international broadcasters including PBS, A&E, HBO and NBC. Productions include single dramas, long-running television dramas, feature films, and stage productions.
Carnival Films was founded in 1978 by feature film producer Brian Eastman.
As of 2014 Carnival has produced over 500 hours of drama and comedy for television, cinema and stage. This included 70 hours of Agatha Christie’s Poirot starring David Suchet and 24 hours of Rosemary & Thyme, starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris. In the action/adventure genre it produced BUGS, Oktober and The Grid, in comedy drama it produced Jeeves and Wooster starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, teenage drama-comedy As If, as well as the adaptations of Tom Sharpe’s novels Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue.