“Line of Duty” and “Good Omens” director Douglas Mackinnon is prepping an Edinburgh-set paramedic drama that’s part of a growing slate at his recently launched production outfit Rugged Island Films. Mackinnon will be presenting the series in the Drama Co-Production Forum at Rome’s MIA Market, which runs Oct. 19 – 23.“BurnTime” is a 6 x 60’ limited series set over six consecutive night shifts during the Edinburgh Festival, a raucous, month-long celebration of the arts in the Scottish capital. The series centers on 35-year-old Kylie MacDonald, a newly trained paramedic working her first shift in the so-called blue light cavalry, racing to save lives in her ambulance — even as a mystery surrounding a tragic episode from her past threatens to upend the life she’s carefully built.Speaking to Variety ahead of the market, Mackinnon says the show takes its title from the chronic burnout that afflicts emergency workers on the job. “The amount of time that paramedics last in the U.K. on average is 18 months…because it’s so stressful and so chaotic and so messy for their lives,” he says.“BurnTime” combines a strain of dark comedy with the propulsive energy that was a hallmark of Mackinnon’s two-year stint at the…
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