Peter Moffat & Nisha Parti Teaming On ITV Courtroom Drama

deadline.com:

EXCLUSIVE: Your Honor creator Peter Moffat is teaming with Nisha Parti (The Boy with the Topknot) and Imran Mahmood (You Don’t Know Me) on an ITV drama that it says will “reimagine the crime and courtroom genre.” Saviour will follow medical student Ben, who goes to a fancy-dress party in his dad’s police uniform.

Ben only has eyes for Xenia, and when he sees her being attacked by a man on his way home, he has no choice but to intervene, urged on by a bystander innocently assuming he is a real police officer.

When things go awry, he makes a desperate call to his dad, who tells Ben exactly what to do next. Running parallel with Ben’s story, the audience is introduced to Indy, a criminal barrister.

Casting will be revealed at a date closer to filming next year. ITV branded Saviour a “refreshing reimagining of the crime and courtroom genre.” Double-BAFTA winner Moffat, whose past credits include Showtime’s Your Honor and the BBC’s Criminal Record, and who is currently penning an ITV drama about the infected blood scandal, is EPing alongside Parti, who was behind the BBC’s BAFTA-nominated feature The Boy with the Topknot.