Hera Pictures was established in January 2017 by award winning producer Liza Marshall, who was previously Head of Drama at Channel 4 (Boy A, Misfits, Red Riding Trilogy, Top Boy), before going on to establish and run Scott Free London for Ridley Scott (Taboo, Before I Go To Sleep, Life In A Day,Welcome to the Punch), and prior to this, she was a producer at the BBC (The Long Firm, The Sins, Eroica). Marshall produced season one of Riviera for Sky Atlantic which garnered over 20m downloads as well as BAFTA-nominated The State from Peter Kosminsky for Channel 4. Hera’s first series, Temple, an eight-part drama starring Mark Strong was Sky 1’s most successful drama of 2019 and chosen as one of the top tv shows of 2020 by The New York Times. The second season of Temple launched on Sky Max (UK) in October 2021. It has attracted rave reviews, including Tortoise Media who described the series as “must-see prestige television”. Hera has also produced Honour, a two-part true crime story for ITV about a so-called honour killing starring Keeley Hawes, which rated very highly at 6.7 million and garnered excellent reviews.