Irene Shubik plays Shubik had produced for "Play for Today" was John Mortimer’s “Rumpole of the Bailey” (broadcast 17 December 1975), starring Leo McKern as the eponymous barrister. McKern had greatly enjoyed playing the role and had indicated it was a part he would be interested in returning to. Shubik commissioned six new "Rumpole" scripts from John Mortimer with a view to making a series but a change of senior personnel in the BBC led to the project being put on hold. In late 1976, Shubik departed the BBC for Thames Television and brought the "Rumpole" scripts with her. Shubik produced the
Four in the Morning (TV series) Four in the Morning (TV series) Four in the Morning is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which premiered on CBC Television on August 26, 2016. Starring Lola Tash, Michelle Mylett, Daniel Maslany and Mazin Elsadig, the series focuses on four friends in their 20s who regularly get together at 4 a.m. The series was produced by Serendipity Point Films, on a low budget model of $300,000 per episode. The series was not renewed for a second season. Creator and show-runner Ira Parker wrote the pilot script, which was meant to feel like a play, when he was in grad school