Last night, Somewhere Boy writer Pete Jackson won the Emerging Talent: Fiction award at the BAFTA Craft ceremony in London.
Somewhere Boy, Pete’s TV writing debut, has been recognised with a host of award nominations, including a BAFTA Craft nomination for Best Writer and a BAFTA TV nomination for Best Drama, with the winner of the latter to be announced on Sunday May 14th.
Nominations are out for this year’s BAFTA TV Awards, with Somewhere Boy picking up nominations across four categories.
Clerkenwell Films is thrilled to see the show nominated for Best Drama Series, alongside Sherwood, The Responder and Bad Sisters.
Writer Pete Jackson has received two separate nominations for his wonderful work on the show, for both Best Drama Writer and Emerging Talent: Fiction.
Meanwhile Samuel Bottomley’s moving performance as Aaron has been recognised with a nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
See the full list of nominees here: https://deadline.com/2023/03/bafta-tv-awards-nominations-in-full-2023-1235306218/
The RTS Programme Awards shortlist is out, with Clerkenwell Films’ BBC show Cheaters nominated for Best Comedy Drama.
With just three nominations per category, Cheaters sits alongside the BBC’s Am I Being Unreasonable and Sky Max’s Brassic on the shortlist.
Winners will be announced at the RTS Programme Awards ceremony in late March.
Click here for the full list of nominees: https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-programme-awards-2023
The Broadcast Awards shortlist was announced today, with Cheaters scooping up a nomination for Best Comedy this year.
Written Oliver Lyttelton, directed by Elliot Hegarty and produced by Alex Walsh-Taylor, Cheaters aired on BBC One and iPlayer in February this year.
‘Totally hilarious’ and ‘a burst of white hot wit’, this is a sexy, messy comedy series about love, morality, monogamy and how the heart, brain and loins are dickheads who are never on the same page.
Check out the full Broadcast Awards shortlist here:
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The Guardian has listed both Somewhere Boy and Cheaters on their roundup of the top 50 shows of the year.
With Somewhere Boy coming in at #18 and Cheaters at #38, we’re thrilled to have two shows among such great company, nudging shoulders with The White Lotus, Bad Sisters, House of the Dragon and Stranger Things, to name a few!
Looking for your next boxset binge over the festive season? Catch the full list of recommendations here!
At this year’s RTS Craft & Design Awards, editor Paul Dingwall took home the prize for Best Editing for his work on Cheaters, beating entries from Sex Education and Top Gear.
“Cheaters succeeded in making the jury laugh through pacy, whip-smart editing and a willingness to mesh funny and shocking moments together.,” said the RTS judges. “It used economical story telling to draw in the viewer and felt like not a frame was wasted.”
Well done Paul for all his wonderful work on the show!
To see the full list of nominees and winners, click here.
Yesterday the Brit List 2022 was revealed to include DEBRIS by Matt Hartley, a thriller on Clerkenwell’s development slate.
In DEBRIS, a small Devonshire fishing community’s world is turned upside down when a mysterious boat is found floating out at sea. This is a character-led thriller, shining a light on the world tourists never see in coastal villages, and the lengths those who live there will go to in order to survive.
Matt Hartley is an exciting new writing talent working with Clerkenwell to develop a number of different thrillers, all rooted in idiosyncratic locales across the UK.
Read more about this year’s Brit List here.
Somewhere Boy will premiere on Sunday 16th October on Channel 4, with all episodes available to stream in the Uk on All4 on the same night. The show has been hailed by The Guardian as ‘a beautiful piece of television’ and ‘the best British drama of the autumn, if not the year.’
Channel 4 has commissioned Truelove, a new six-episode drama series from Clerkenwell Films.
Truelove is written by Iain Weatherby (Humans) and co-created by him and Charlie Covell (The End of the F***ing World).
With a core cast in their late 60s and 70s, Truelove breaks the rules for older characters on screen and flips ageist tropes on their head in a series which promises thrilling twists and turns, irreverent humour and passionate romance.
Click here for more information.
The BBC has acquired the brand new, short form series, Cheaters.
The series was created and written by Oliver Lyttelton, directed by Elliot Hegarty and produced by Alex Walsh – Taylor.
The show will air on Tuesday 8th February at 9:50pm on BBC One. All episodes will be available on iPlayer.
Click here for more information
