Exclusive: ITV is developing a miniseries on Ian Paterson, the infamous British surgeon who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after performing unnecessary and body-altering operations on more than 1,000 patients over a period of 14 years.
Deadline can reveal that ITV is working on the three-part series with Hat Trick Mercurio Television, the production outfit co-owned by Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio and Hat Trick Productions, the Jimmy Mulville-run indie behind Matt LeBlanc’s Golden Globe-winning Episodes.
Hat Trick Mercurio is in the process of attaching a writer to the project, which will tell an Erin Brockovich-style story of Paterson’s atrocities through the eyes of Debbie Douglas, a woman who helped run victims’ support group Breast Friends after being left “mutilated” by the surgeon.
Douglas and her fellow Breast Friends members initially celebrated the charismatic Paterson, but ultimately turned into his most implacable opponents as they helped uncover his litany of botched operations.
Deadline can reveal that ITV is working on the three-part series with Hat Trick Mercurio Television, the production outfit co-owned by Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio and Hat Trick Productions, the Jimmy Mulville-run indie behind Matt LeBlanc’s Golden Globe-winning Episodes.
Hat Trick Mercurio is in the process of attaching a writer to the project, which will tell an Erin Brockovich-style story of Paterson’s atrocities through the eyes of Debbie Douglas, a woman who helped run victims’ support group Breast Friends after being left “mutilated” by the surgeon.
Douglas and her fellow Breast Friends members initially celebrated the charismatic Paterson, but ultimately turned into his most implacable opponents as they helped uncover his litany of botched operations.
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