Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender Revealed and Karen Carpenter: Goodbye to Love will both be produced by ITV Studios' indie Potato. 

Each film will be 120 minutes long and will feature archive footage, as well as one-to-one interviews, and scripted dramatisations based on firsthand accounts of the singers' lives.

Freddie Mercury rose to fame as the frontman and lyricist of rock band Queen, and counted Princess Diana as one of his close friends, he passed away in 1991 after battling with AIDS.

Karen Carpenter was one half of the brother-sister duo The Carpenters, who achieved high acclaim with such hits as 'Close To You' and 'Sing', she has long been lauded as the greatest vocalist of the 20th century. She died in 1983 after complications with anorexia.  

The films' executive producer and managing director of Potato, Michael Kelpie said: “There are few artists who have touched the lives of so many through their music to the extent of Freddie Mercury and Karen Carpenter. These films tell their stories in a compelling, truthful and respectful way and remind us all of how much we miss them both.”