Gareth Neame is a BAFTA, Emmy, and Golden Globe award-winning TV and film producer and executive. He has been CEO of Carnival Films since 2004 and responsible for many popular shows, most notably the global TV phenomenon Downton Abbey, winner of three Golden Globes and fifteen Primetime Emmys. With a total of 69 nominations, Downton is the most nominated non-US show in Emmy history and the UK’s most successful scripted export. Two subsequent Downton Abbey films (released in 2019 and 2022) also enjoyed huge box office success.

In a career spanning over 30 years, Neame has been behind numerous award-winning and highly-acclaimed shows such as Spooks, State of Play, Hustle, The Hollow Crown, Jamestown, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries, Belgravia, and most recently The Gilded Age for HBO. He also produced five seasons of the hugely popular The Last Kingdom for Netflix, with a spin-off movie Seven Kings Must Die released earlier this year. Neame is currently serving as executive producer on Belgravia: The Next Chapter for MGM and both Lockerbie and The Day Of The Jackal for Peacock & Sky, and is in post-production on the second series of The Gilded Age, which will be released on HBO later this year.

In 2014, Neame was announced by 10 Downing Street as an Ambassador of the GREAT Britain campaign, and was appointed OBE in the Queen’s 90th birthday honours list. He has also been listed in the Variety 500 index of most influential business leaders in the global entertainment industry.