Carnival Films

Carnival Films is an award winning British television production company based in London, UK. It has produced television series for all the major UK networks including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky, as well as a number of international broadcasters including PBS, A&E, HBO and NBC. Its productions vary from single dramas and long-running television drama to feature film and stage productions.

History

Carnival Films was founded in 1978 by feature film producer Brian Eastman.

Over the last thirty four years 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.