According to Deadline<\/a>, the broadcaster is working on bringing the contaminated blood scandal of the \u201970s and \u201980s to the screen.<\/p>\n Peter Moffat, who penned upcoming Prince Andrew drama Scoop<\/a>, is set to write the as-yet-untitled series, which will tackle how a large number of people with blood disorders \u2013 largely haemophilia \u2013 were infected with hepatitis C and HIV after receiving contaminated clotting factor products<\/a>.<\/p>\n A statistics report was recently carried out on the incident, with results of the Infected Blood Inquiry published in 2022 estimating that around 1,250 people with bleeding disorders were infected with HIV in the UK, with a further 2,400 infected with Hepatitis C.<\/p>\n ITV has described it as the \u201cbiggest health scandal in our history\u201d, with Deadline reporting Moffat\u2019s scripts will \u201cexamine what doctors, politicians and giant pharmaceutical companies knew then about the risk, and the wrongs that have stretched over half a century\u201d.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Per Deadline, the series has been green-lit with a writer, but is currently seeking a production company to take it on.<\/p>\n Moffat told the publication: \u201cIt\u2019s been a great privilege to meet those infected and affected and to learn about what they have been through. I\u2019m ashamed to say that when I started researching this story I knew next to nothing about it.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m even more ashamed that this ignorance is shared by nearly everyone I mention it to. The victims of this scandal have been let down again and again by the state \u2013 I hope in some small way this drama can help their voices be heard.\u201d<\/p> Visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0or take a look at the rest of our\u00a0Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>subscribe now<\/strong><\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n The broadcaster has commissioned a new series set to tackle \u201cthe biggest health scandal in our history”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":46444,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/itv-greenlights-contaminated-blood-scandal-drama-after-mr-bates-success-scaled.jpg",2560,1703,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/itv-greenlights-contaminated-blood-scandal-drama-after-mr-bates-success-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/itv-greenlights-contaminated-blood-scandal-drama-after-mr-bates-success-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/itv-greenlights-contaminated-blood-scandal-drama-after-mr-bates-success-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/itv-greenlights-contaminated-blood-scandal-drama-after-mr-bates-success-1024x681.jpg",800,532,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/itv-greenlights-contaminated-blood-scandal-drama-after-mr-bates-success-1536x1022.jpg",1536,1022,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/itv-greenlights-contaminated-blood-scandal-drama-after-mr-bates-success-2048x1363.jpg",2048,1363,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The broadcaster has commissioned a new series set to tackle \u201cthe biggest health scandal in our history\".","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/46443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Toby](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/Mr-Bates-vs-the-Post-Office-ca400a0-e1701877325858.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"Toby")
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