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Penelope Wilton and Jonathan Pryce to Lead ITV’s Four-Part ‘Mavis Eccleston’

The project signals ITV’s drive into socially charged drama during a live assisted-dying debate in Parliament.

Overview

  • The series, which ITV unveiled Monday, casts Penelope Wilton as Mavis Eccleston with Jonathan Pryce as her husband Dennis.
  • It draws on the couple’s joint-suicide pact and Mavis’s 2019 acquittal on a murder charge, with Eccleston and her family backing the dramatization.
  • Unforgotten creator Chris Lang writes the four-part series and Bruce Goodison directs, with Corestar Media and Indefinite Films producing.
  • Calculus Media is providing production financing and High Road Entertainment will handle international sales and distribution.
  • Filming is scheduled to start in Bristol later this year as ITV positions the drama alongside recent campaigning titles tied to the assisted-dying discussion.