BAFTA-winning producer Patrick Spence is leaving ITV Studios after three years, Variety has confirmed.
Spence, who serves as inventive director, will depart on the finish of March, ITV Studios managing director Julian Bellamy advised workers by way of an inside memo on Thursday. Spence will proceed to accomplice with ITV Studios on upcoming initiatives together with “People vs. Post Office” (working title).
Spence joined ITV Studios in 2020 and secured a number of acclaimed commissions, together with the BBC’s drama-romance “Ralph & Katie,” a spin-off of “The A Word,” concerning the lives of a pair with Down syndrome; ITVX’s “Litvinenko,” concerning the investigation into the dying of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko; the BAFTA-nominated Cold War spy drama “A Spy Among Friends,” additionally for ITVX; and post-pandemic frontline medical drama “Maternal” for ITV.
The producer spent 15 years in commissioning and manufacturing on the BBC. He served as head of drama for Northern Ireland from 2003 to 2010. In 2010, Spence arrange and ran Fifty Fathoms Productions, a scripted manufacturing firm owned by Endemol Shine earlier than it was acquired by Banijay. He was managing director at Fifty Fathoms.
Spence received the BAFTA for greatest single drama in 2015 for the BBC’s “Marvellous,” produced by Fifty Fathoms and Tiger Aspect. Previously, he received a Prix Europa particular award for TV fiction for “Occupation” (2009).
Spence’s credit additionally embody “Domina,” “Adult Material,” “The A Word,” “The Eddy,” “Fortitude,” “Guerilla,” “Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen” and “Five Minutes of Heaven.” He will likely be confirming his subsequent enterprise imminently.
News of Spence’s departure from ITV Studios was first reported by Deadline.
