Gareth Neame joined Carnival in January 2005, following five years as Head of Drama Commissioning at the BBC. On joining the company Gareth significantly grew the business with many new commissions and an enlarged creative team, producing four seasons of BBC ONE’s hit drama series Hotel Babylon and mini series Sea of Souls, Empathy and Life Line. For ITV he has Executive Produced Whistleblowers, Midnight Man and The Old Curiosity Shop. Under Gareth’s leadership the company has also produced the ITV hit crime show Whitechapel together with Harley Street and Christmas at the Riviera.
In 2008 Gareth sold the business to NBC Universal as the cornerstone of a new international TV division and Carnival has since produced the network series The Philanthropist for NBC as well as the highly acclaimed BBC film ‘Enid’ starring Helena Bonham-Carter and BBC ONE series Material Girl.
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, also working 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 (1995 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.
