Gareth Neame joined Carnival as Managing Director in January 2005, following four years as Head of Drama Commissioning at the BBC. While at the BBC, Gareth developed and supervised a range of innovative and award-winning drama productions including Spooks, State of Play, Bodies, Outlaws, Hustle, Conviction, The Rotters Club, Tipping the Velvet, New Tricks, Clocking Off, Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, Cambridge Spies, Trust, Redcap, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Family Business, Rescue Me, Burn It, Hearts and Bones, Linda Green, In Denial of Murder, Sparkhouse, Servants, Murder, Fingersmith and The Legend of the Tamworth Two. He was also responsible for two U.S. co-productions, The Grid with TNT and Fox and Rome with HBO.
After graduating in 1988 Gareth joined BBC Drama and he has worked extensively in both production and development and he has previously worked as an independent producer in theatrical and TV movies including John Duigan’s Paranoid for Sky Pictures. His first producing credit was Truth or Dare directed by John Madden (BAFTA winner and RTS nominated). Other credits include All the King’s Men, selected for the opening ceremony of the 2000 Monte Carlo Festival, The Woman in White (BAFTA nominated serial 1997), The Missing Postman (winner of 1996 British Comedy Award), Station Jim, Getting Hurt, The Wyvern Mystery, Lorna Doone, Peter Kosminsky’s multi award-winning Warriors, Happy Birthday Shakespeare, Take a Girl Like You and Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (nominated for Broadcast and South Bank Show awards 2005). Gareth served on The Council of The British Academy of Film and Television Arts from 2004-06.
Since joining the company Gareth has significantly enlarged the business with many new commissions and an increased creative team. He has Executive Produced three seasons of Hotel Babylon, together with The Whistleblowers, The Old Curiosity Shop and mini-series Sea of Souls, Empathy, Life Line and Midnight Man.
