Gareth Neame is Managing Director UK, NBCUniversal International TV Production, expanding on his previous role as Managing Director of Carnival Films, the independent production company Neame sold to NBCUniversal in 2008. Neame’s remit now includes oversight on all UK television production initiatives in Drama, Comedy and Entertainment. He is tasked with increasing NBCUniversal’s presence in the UK, building on the significant success of Carnival.
Carnival Films is one of the UK’s leading producers and was responsible for the TV event of 2010 Downton Abbey, the second series of which is currently in production, and the BAFTA award-winning Best Drama Serial Any Human Heart for C4, as well as ITV’s Whitechapel; the third series of which is also in production.
Over the years, Carnival has produced many popular shows such as Hotel Babylon, Poirot, Enid, Sea of Souls, Jeeves and Wooster, As If, Rosemary and Thyme, and Traffik, as well as US content such as The Philanthropist for NBC and The Grid for TNT. Other productions Neame has been responsible for at Carnival include Whistleblowers, Midnight Man and The Old Curiosity Shop.
Prior to joining the company, Neame had a successful career as Head of Drama Commissioning at the BBC and was instrumental in the significant growth in independent production, responsible for the development and production of a range of innovative, award-winning and popular shows such as Spooks, Bodies, Outlaws, Hustle, New Tricks, Tipping the Velvet and Clocking Off.
After graduating in 1988, Neame worked extensively in both production and development at the BBC and as an independent producer in theatrical and TV movies, including John Duigan’s Paranoid for Sky. Other credits as a Producer or Executive Producer include: the multi award-winning State of Play, Truth or Dare (BAFTA winner, RTS nominated), All the King’s Men, The Woman in White (BAFTA nominated), The Missing Postman (British Comedy Award winner) Station Jim, Getting Hurt, The Wyvern Mystery, Lorna Doone, Peter Kosminsky’s multi award-winning Warriors, Happy Birthday Shakespeare, Cambridge Spies, Take a Girl Like You and Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (nominated for South Bank Show award). Neame served on The Council of The British Academy of Film and Television Arts from 2004-06.
