{"id":104920,"date":"2022-06-08T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/line-of-duty-producer-world-forging-itv-show-starring-niamh-algar\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:12:10","slug":"line-of-duty-producer-world-forging-itv-show-starring-niamh-algar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/line-of-duty-producer-world-forging-itv-show-starring-niamh-algar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Line Of Duty\u2019 Producer World Forging ITV Show Starring Niamh Algar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Line of Duty\u00a0<\/em>producer World Productions is forging an ITV medical thriller starring\u00a0<em>Deceit\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Niamh Algar, directed by <em>Boiling\u00a0<\/em>Point\u2019s Phillip Barantini and written by former doctor Grace Ofori-Attah.<\/p>\n<p><em>Malpractice<\/em>\u00a0follows <span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"PT\">Dr Lucinda Edwards <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">(Algar), a smart, battle-hardened doctor whose<\/span>\u00a0nightmare <span lang=\"EN-US\">shift ends in the death of an opioid <\/span><span lang=\"ES-TRAD\">overdose <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">victim, Edith Owusu. Despite the support of her medical supervisor, Dr Leo Harris, played by James Purefoy (<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">A Discovery of Witches<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\">), Edith\u2019s grieving father Sir Anthony Owusu, played by Brian Bovell (<i>Strike), <\/i>demands an enquiry into Lucinda\u2019s actions on the fateful night.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Filming has started in Leeds and cast also includes <em>Boiling Point\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Hannah Walters, Helen Behan <em>(The Virtues), <\/em>Jordan Kouam\u00e9<em> (<i>Megalomania), <\/i><\/em>Beth Relph, Lorne MacFadyen, Priyanka Patel (<i>Britney, Another Me<\/i>), Scott Chambers (<i>Chicken, Innocent S2<\/i>),\u00a0 Tristan Sturrock (<i>Poldark, Doc Martin<\/i>) and Georgina Rich (<i>Heartstopper, War of the Worlds).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Barantini will direct, fresh off the back of the critical and awards success of Stephen Graham-starring indie pic Boiling<em> Point.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ofori-Attah, a former doctor turned scribe, is penning for the first time and the prolific ITV Studios-backed <em>Line of Duty\u00a0<\/em>producer World Productions is producing. Simon Heath is exec producer and Sophie Reynolds is producer.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Grace\u2019s scripts are a brilliant mix of compelling medical thriller and an authentic medical world that comes from her time as a doctor,\u201d said ITV head of Drama Polly Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThey are also so accomplished that\u2019s it\u2019s hard to believe this is her first commissioned show. It\u2019s wonderful to see how many new voices are making their first drama on ITV.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Line of Duty\u00a0producer World Productions is forging an ITV medical thriller starring\u00a0Deceit\u2019s\u00a0Niamh Algar, directed by Boiling\u00a0Point\u2019s Phillip Barantini and written by former doctor Grace Ofori-Attah. Malpractice\u00a0follows Dr Lucinda Edwards (Algar), a smart, battle-hardened doctor whose\u00a0nightmare shift ends in the death of an opioid overdose victim, Edith Owusu. Despite the support of her medical supervisor, Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":104921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/\u2018Line-Of-Duty-Producer-World-Forging-ITV-Show-Starring-Niamh.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}