High Point to distribute BBC/WGBH's Murder Rooms

High Point, the TV division of High Point and the Film Company Group, will be to handling all international sales on four feature length new dramas titled Murder Rooms.

Production of the four films is scheduled for completion in the summer. The series, a BBC Films co-production with WGBH Boston in association with The Television Production Company, will be screened in the UK on BBC 1 later this year.

The UK based independent distribution outfit will showcase the series at MIP-TV next month.

The first film in Murder Rooms, The Patient's Eyes, is written by David Pirie and sees Ian Richardson in the role of the pioneering pathologist Dr Joseph Bell, with Charlie Edwards (Rebecca, Mansfield Park) starring as his former medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Murder Rooms is based on the real life relationship between student and mentor that led to Doyle's creation of the Sherlock Holmes character.

Set in the 1880s, the films follow the pair as they become embroiled in solving a series of gruesome murders.

Murder Rooms is based on the success of the BBC's film of the same name last year, also penned by Pirie and starring Richardson.

The other three films in the series are: The Spiritualist's Chair by Paul Billing, The Kingdom of Bones by Stephen Gallagher, and The Riddle of Three by Daniel Boyle.

The series stars Clare Holman, Roger Lloyd Pack, John Sessions, Crispin Bonham-Carter and newcomer Katie Blake. The films aredirected by Tim Fywell, Paul Marcus and Simon Langton and produced by Alison Jackson.

The series' executive producers are David Thompson (BBC Films), Rebecca Eaton (WGBH) and Jim Reeve (Television Production Company).