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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has yanked a raft of international originals from its service along with several big-ticket acquired series. Numerous English-language originals disappeared overnight last week. The U.S. conglom’s strategy shift to favoring its Hollywood-style content, and wider cost-savings…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing a drama series about Bible John, one of Britain’s most notorious unidentified serial killers. The as-yet-untitled show is understood to be in early-stage development with the BBC drama division. Buccaneer Media, which produces the likes of Irvine Welsh adaptation Crim…

EXCLUSIVE: Crime star Dougray Scott and Buccaneer Media, the Scottish police drama’s producer, have hired a Creative Director for Buccaneer Scotland, as it seeks to supercharge the scale of its productions in the Celtic country. The Lighthouse development chief Neil Duncan hired to run Buccaneer…

EXCLUSIVE: British author C.J. Tudor’s buzzy upcoming book The Drift is set for a TV adaptation. Irvine Welsh’s Crime and Marcella producer Buccaneer Media and Chicken Soup for the Soul-owned Halcyon Studios, which is behind Prime Video’s Hunters, have won the rights to adapt the book following a…

EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) is to lead Paramount+’s The Burning Girls alongside Bridgerton star Ruby Stokes, Deadline can reveal. The series from Marcella producer Buccaneer Media, which is adapted from a C.J. Tudor novel, has entered production and follows a village haunted by a dark and turbulent…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ is entering The Doll Factory. The UK wing of the streamer has ordered an adaptation of the Sunday Times bestselling novel, a dark thriller story of obsession centred around a doll painter and her twin sister. Marcella, Crime and Whistable Pearl indie Buccaneer Media is attached to produce the…

EXCLUSIVE: Acclaimed Scottish writer Jenni Fagan has struck a two-project development deal with UK drama indie Buccaneer Scotland, which is also producing Fagan’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s The Blade Artist starring Robert Carlyle. Buccaneer Scotland, a division of ITV’s Marcella producer Buccaneer Media, has taken…

Paramount+'s latest UK slate is headlined by a dark drama from The Bridge and Marcella creator Hans Rosenfeldt, with new unscripted shows including a reality series about LA hairdressers and true crime doc about a notorious hoax caller.  Leading a six-strong order is Rosenfeldt’s drama The Burning Girls, a six-part…

EXCLUSIVE: Leonard Cohen's relationship with muse Marianne Ihlen is going under the microscope in a 1960s-set drama co-production for Norwegian broadcaster NRK. The UK's Buccaneer Media (Marcella, Crime) and Dag and Lilyhammer writer Øystein Karlsen's Oslo-based Redpoint Productions are co-producing So Long, Marianne…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Carlyle is to reprise his role as the notorious Francis Begbie in a TV version of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting sequel The Blade Artist. More than 25 years on from his star turn in the Danny Boyle film, Carlyle will exec produce and feature as a reformed Begbie in the six-parter, which is being…

EXCLUSIVE: Tom MacRae, the creator of the Everybody's Talking About Jamie musical and upcoming feature, and Marcella producer Buccaneer Media have joined Nevision’s adaptation of MG Leonard's Beetle Boy children's books. MacRae is scripting the live-action/CGI returnable series, with Buccaneer co-producing…

EXCLUSIVE: You wait years for one bus, and then two come along at the same time. That’s the phrase Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh used when reflecting on how two of his first-ever TV projects got unveiled within the same week. That the announcements collided was sheer coincidence, he says, but a happy one for the…