‘Line of Responsibility’s Jed Mercurio Growing Pandemic Drama ‘Breathtaking’

Prasanna Puwanarajah, who stars as Martin Bashir on season 5 of “The Crown,” is working once more with “Line of Responsibility” creator Jed Mercurio, this time on an adaptation of Rachel Clarke’s pandemic-themed bestseller “Breathtaking.”

The e-book is being developed as a three-part as-yet-untitled drama for U.Ok. broadcaster ITV, Puwanarajah, who was previously a health care provider with the U.Ok.’s Nationwide Well being Service (NHS), as was Mercurio, advised Selection. Clarke is writing the drama with Puwanarajah and Mercurio.

Set through the time when the U.Ok. was being ravaged by COVID-19, Clarke’s e-book gives an insider’s take a look at the pandemic from a hospital physician’s standpoint.

“Rachel Clarke is a palliative care physician who I used to work with within the NHS, once I was a primary 12 months junior physician and she or he was a medical pupil – I taught her learn how to do IV drip strains. And he or she’s now an unimaginable statesperson for the NHS and advocate for NHS workers and sufferers,” Puwanarajah mentioned.

“It’s trying on the the lives of healthcare professionals within the first few months of the pandemic,” Puwanarajah mentioned. “I’m very eager to get what I believe is a extremely vital piece of public curiosity drama out into the world. As a result of, we’ve been residing by robust instances, and you will need to problem the shifting panorama of fact that we’re advised and to push again in opposition to that with info and details based mostly on witnessed occasions. It’s one thing that’s actually vital to me.”

Mercurio and Puwanarajah beforehand collaborated on graphic novel “Sleeper,” the place the worlds of science fiction, conspiracy thriller and Westerns collide. Puwanarajah additionally starred in Mercurio’s Sky medical drama “Vital” and is at the moment filming ITV crime drama “Payback,” which is govt produced by Mercurio.