Film Music Reporter

British electronic music artist and house producer Leon Vynehall has made his television scoring debut on the new ITV drama Breathtaking. The show is written by Rachel Clarke, Jed Mercurio (Bodyguard, Line of Duty) and Prasanna Puwanarajah based on Clarke’s personal memoir and stars Joanne Froggatt, Bhav Joshi, Donna Banya, Stephanie Street, Joseph Charles, Thom Petty and Naomi Denny. The 3-part series takes place during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, weeks before the UK’s first national lockdown, and follows an acute medicine consultant and her team as they struggle with the first wave of patients and are forced to make difficult healthcare decisions as her colleagues begin to be infected with the virus. Craig Viveiros (Angela Black, The War of the Worlds) has directed all episodes. Clarke, Mercurio & are also executive producing the HTM Television production. Vynehall has previously composed the music for the 2022 feature The Seven Faces of Jane. Breathtaking is premiering in the UK tonight on ITV and will also be available to stream on ITVX.