Granada Film, co-producers of 'Bloody Sunday', winner of the Golden Bear at the last Berlin Film Festival, and 1990's 'My Left Footl, is to be brought in-house as part of the comedy and drama department of Granada, and will longer operate as an independent.
This closure, coming so shortly after the closure of Film Four, means that BBC will be the only British broadcaster with an independent film-making operation.
"Film will be run by the controller of comedy and drama, Andy Harries," a Granada spokeswoman told BBC News Online. "He wants to focus on a smaller slate of films aimed at British audiences," she said. According to the BBC, 'the spokeswoman also confirmed that Granada would continue to make films for cinema release. Pippa Cross and Jeanette Day, who head Granada Film, are to set up an independent production and sales company to complete production of two films already in the pipeline, All-American Man and Vanity Fair.'