Brian Eastman

Brian Eastman was born in Brighton, United Kingdom, on September 3, 1949. Brian Eastman is a feature film, television drama, and stage production, producer. Eastman attended the City of Norwich School and Cambridge's Jesus College. Between 1972 and 1975, he served as a Concert Manager for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and between 1976 and 1979, he was the British Council's Music Tours Officer. Music documentaries were his first foray into filmmaking. Eastman is wedded to Christabel Albery, a passionate gardener for whom he wrote the Rosemary & Thyme detective series. They live in Santa Monica, California, and London, respectively.

He's worked on feature films like Shadowlands and Under Suspicion, as well as television dramas like Agatha Christie's Poirot and Jeeves and Wooster and stage performances like Shadowlands, Misery, and Up on the Roof. He has garnered two BAFTA awards and two international Emmy awards, as well as several other honors and nominations for his work. He is a Royal Television Society Fellow. He splits his time between the United Kingdom and the United States. Eastman formed Carnival Films, an independent production company that produced approximately 300 hours of television drama, eight feature films, and ten stage shows between 1980 and 2006. Carnival Films was sold to Southern Star, an Australian corporation, in 2007. Eastman's new production firm, Batway Ltd, continues to manufacture.

Betty Willingale, who had retired from the BBC, joined him at Carnival from 1988 to 1994. Eastman filmed around 70 hours of Agatha Christie's Poirot featuring David Suchet David Suchet is England’s most delicate stage, scr >> Read More... ; Rosemary and Thyme with Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris; and Anna Lee starring Imogen Stubbs in the detective genre. He created 40 hours of Bugs in action/adventure, and Tom Hanks I quote his famous line “Mama always said life was >> Read More... adaptations in comedic drama. Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue are two books by Sharpe. He produced Simon Moore's miniseries Traffik, which was later converted into a feature picture directed by Steven Soderbergh. The Big Battalions and The Fragile Heart were two more Channel Four mini-series. He developed The Grid for TNT in the United States and the BBC, as well as The Tenth Kingdom for NBC in the United States and SKY.