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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''. In 2004 the BBC’s former Head of Drama Commissioning Gareth Neame joined Carnival as Managing Director. In 2007 former Creative Director of BBC Drama Sally Woodward Gentle joined the company as Creative Director. The two had previously worked together on ''Spooks'' (MI:5), ''Tipping the Velvet'' and ''Cambridge Spies''. In 2008 Carnival was acquired by NBCUniversal as part of its plan to increase its presence in content creation outside the US. Following several more acquisitions Carnival is now part of NBCUniversal International Television Production alongside newer additions Monkey Kingdom, Working Title Television, Chocolate Media and Lucky Giant in the UK, Lark in Canada and Matchbox Pictures in Australia.〔http://www.mediaparents.co.uk/companies/2629/nbc-universal-international-tv-production〕〔http://www.televisual.com/blog-detail/Flexing-NBCUs-studio-muscle_bid-221.html〕 Under the direction of Gareth Neame, Carnival has produced series such as; ''The Philanthropist'' for NBC; hit BBC series ''Hotel Babylon''; the critically acclaimed television films ''Enid'' starring Helena Bonham Carter and Matthew Macfadyen; ''Page Eight'' starring Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon and Ralph Fiennes; landmark four-part drama ''Any Human Heart'' starring Jim Broadbent, Matthew MacFadyen, Hayley Atwell and Kim Cattrall; ''The Hollow Crown'', a BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays starring Tom Hiddleston, Ben Whishaw and Jeremy Irons; ''The Last Weekend'', a three-part adaptation of Blake Morrison's novel; and ''Whitechapel'' for ITV. Carnival’s biggest hit, both critically and commercially, is the Julian Fellowes penned ''Downton Abbey''.〔http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-09-13/downton-abbey-awarded-world-record-for-critical-reviews〕 A worldwide phenomenon that has aired in 212 countries, Downton Abbey has won 39 national and international awards, including Outstanding Mini-Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards〔http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2011/Outstanding%20Miniseries%20or%20Movie〕 and Best Mini-Series at the Golden Globe Awards.〔http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations〕 The Guinness Book of World Records named Downton the "most critically acclaimed English-language television show" of 2011. In September 2012, Downton Abbey became the most nominated international television programme in Primetime Emmy history with 27 nominations over the first two series.〔http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-09-13/downton-abbey-awarded-world-record-for-critical-reviews〕 In January 2013, the cast of Downton Abbey won Best Ensemble at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The third series was the highest-rated series to date with a consolidated audience of 11.45 million in the United Kingdom.〔http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/commissioning/downton-to-return-for-fourth-series/5049354.article?referrer=RSS〕 On 26 March 2015, Carnival Films and ITV announced that Series 6 would be the last.〔http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/carnival-films-and-itv-announce-season-6-be-final-downton-abbey〕 It is expected to air in late 2015 with a final episode, serving as the annual Christmas special, expected to air on 25 December 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carnival Films」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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