ITV COMMISSIONS A NEW CRIME THRILLER, “THE TOWER”

ITV studios is set to commission the adaptation for its first novel, "The Tower," led by Screenwriter and Executive producer, Patrick Harbinson. “I was persuaded not only by his outstanding track record but by his passionate engagement with the characters and the choices they face,” “I am thrilled and honored that Patrick and the high-caliber team at Mammoth and ITV have come together to bring my characters to life on the screen.”

The Tower has been commissioned for ITV by Head of Drama Polly Hill, who will oversee the three-part drama for the channel and is produced by Windhover Films and Mammoth Screen in association with ITV Studios. Paul Testar contributed as producer, while Sherie Myers served as co-producer, and Jim Loach as director. Harbinson will executive produce alongside Mammoth Screen’s founder and CEO Damien Timmer and Karen Thrussell. Filming will begin this spring, with casting details set to be announced at a later time.“ I am excited to bring Kate London’s compelling novel to the screen,” Hill said. "Patrick has done a brilliant adaptation which highlights the difficult moral questions that the novel asks about policing in contemporary London. This promises to be a powerful and original new police drama and I’m proud to have it on ITV.”

The book deal to sell Kate London’s novels for TV was brokered by Luke Speed on behalf of Alice Lutyens of Curtis Brown Group, and its adaptation is set to be distributed globally by ITV Studios. Kate London is a former Met Police Officer who finished her career working as part of a Major Investigation Team on the Homicide and Serious Crime Command. 

“In The Tower’s" tells the story of a cop and a teenage girl who fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, based on Post Mortem, the first in Kate London’s Metropolitan series of novels Within hours, Lizzie has disappeared, and Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is charged with leading the investigation. “In 2006 I ran away from the circus to join the police,” London said. “Within a matter of weeks I was writing , not for publication, but because I just had to get down on paper the world I encountered: its complexity, laughter, loyalty, the moral conflicts, and the dangers that were not only physical. Policing showed me London in a way no other job could.”