Eastfield

Eastfield is an 2019 British drama first broadcast on BBC Two. It is a dramatization of the creation of Tyne Tees Television, from conception to its official loss as an on-screen identity in 2002. the 75-minute-long programme follows the true story of Richard Pease, a struggling television executive who creates a vision of a television station depicting their region of North East England.
==Cast==
*Alan Welsh as Richard Pease
*Clyde Bahzir as Claude Darling
*James Rzeznik as Anthony Jelly
*Valerie Parnell as Elizabeth Fairburn
*George Shawt as George Black
*Alfred Shawt as Alfred Black
*Melanie Koodla as Sydney Box
*Andre Sajara as Lord Layton
*Cody Taylor as Peter CadburyCody Taylor's confirmation tweet about his film role
*Riley Gamerson as Viscount Ridley
*Alice Egiato as Angus Colegia
*Sofia Drusian as Cindy Darling
*Darryl Bassett as Darryl Pease
*Riley Gamerson as Viscount Ridley
*Alice Egiato as Angus Colegia
*Sofia Drusian as Cindy Darling
*Darryl Bassett as Darryl Pease
*Graham Eagle as Ryan Eaglesham
*William Reeves as Bill Lyon-Shaw
*Dennis Ringa as Denis Ringrowe
*Peter Grosdanof as Peter Paine
*Michael Rausch as Ivone Kirkpatrick
*Harry Doctor as Hugh Percy
*Maurice Harlock as Maurice Harland
==Production==
===Background===
Eastfield was written by Daran Little, a long-time archivist on Granada's Coronation Street who became a scriptwriter. At the time, however, Little was a scriptwriter for Coronation Streets rival, EastEnders, broadcast on BBC One. He developed and produced Eastfield whilst also producing The Road to Coronation Street."Tyne Tees Television celebrates 60 years of broadcasting, with an biographical TV-film?", Rolling Stone, 29 April 2019, p.7
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