London Screenings: ITV Studios’ Ruth Berry on Andrew Lincoln’s ‘Cold Water,’ David Tennant’s ‘The Hack’ and How Scale and Must Haves Matter Ever More

variety.com:

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent ITV Studios weighs into the 2025 London TV Screenings with its biggest slate in the last couple of years, certainly on the format side, and one of the weightiest lineups of any company presenting in London this week.

Its Feb. 26 showcase at the Odeon Leicester Square, open exclusively to buyers, will launch 12 brand new dramas, 26 returning seasons, 27 non-scripted titles and 10 new formats featuring must-check-out shows from many of the U.K.’s top production companies such as Sister Pictures (“Chernobyl,” “Eric”), Quay Street Productions (“Fool Me Once,” “Nolly”), Mammoth Screen (“Poldark,” “Murder is Easy”), Lifted Entertainment (“Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway”) and Plimsoll Productions (“A Year on Planet Earth,” “A Real Bug’s Life”). “Sister Pictures is not one of the ITV Studios family but the others are.

That’s a real testament to the journey we’ve been on in the last few years of really trying to work with the best talent,” said Ruth Berry, ITV Studios’ head of global distribution.

It will show at the London Screenings. One title leading the charge for ITV Studios is “Cold Water,” where “The Walking Dead’s” Andrew Lincoln makes his British TV comeback after 15 years in the latest series from multi-award winning Sister Pictures, penned by playwright David Ireland who has described it as a “dark, funny, twisted thriller.” Another scripted highlight: “The Hack,” written by Jack Thorne, a doyen of British screenwriters.