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Gina McKee and Jeremy Northam tell Fiona's Story on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One
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Bafta-nominated Gina McKee (The Street, Tsunami) and acclaimed actor Jeremy Northam (The Tudors, Gosford Park) will star in Fiona's Story – a powerful one-off drama for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One exploring one woman's fight to hold her family together after her husband is accused of downloading indecent images of children from the internet.
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Written by newcomer Kate Gabriel – and based on extensive research – Fiona's Story is a 90-minute in-house Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿ÚÌýScotland production for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One, scheduled to transmit in 2008/09.
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Filming on the distinctive drama began filming in Glasgow this month for four weeks.
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The drama will be produced by David Boulter (He Kills Coppers, EastEnders), directed by Adrian Shergold (He Kills Coppers, Low Winter Sun) and executive produced by Matthew Read.
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Anne Mensah, Head of Drama for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Scotland, says: "Fiona's Story is an amazing piece of writing. It has an emotional intensity at its heart which captivates everyone who reads the script.
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"It is fantastic that we have the wonderful acting skills of Gina McKee and Jeremy Northam as well as the direction of Adrian Shergold, who will, without doubt, deliver performances as powerful as the writing and subject matter.
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Producer David Boulter adds: "Fiona's Story is the heartbreaking tale of a marriage breaking down. Its power lies in writer Kate Gabriel's original voice, which has attracted top level talent across the board."
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Fiona's Story continues in the footsteps of distinctive productions from Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Scotland including God On Trial (Hat Trick Productions, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Two), Purves & Pekkala (Pirate Productions, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One), Hope Springs (Shed Productions, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One), P.A.s (2AM TV, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three), Wallander (Left Bank Films, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One) and Phoo Action for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three.
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It is the latest in a recent wave of exciting Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú drama commissions for 2008/2009, including The Mary Whitehouse Story for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Two and The Anne Frank Diaries for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One.
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As part of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Fiction department, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Drama is committed to bold and challenging story-telling and, in the last 12 months alone, has produced the Bafta-nominated Stuart: A Life Backwards (Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Two) about a homeless man with muscular dystrophy, and Coming Down The Mountain (Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One), a drama about two brothers, one of whom has Down's Syndrome.
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Fiona's Story was commissioned by Jane Tranter, Controller, Fiction, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú.
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