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Dominican Actress Yovanna Ventura Signs With Vision EXCLUSIVE: Vision Entertainment has signed Dominican social media personality and actress Yovanna Ventura, whose credits include Tales (BET) and mini-series The New Edition Story. Ventura, who has amassed 11 million followers across social platforms…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s Channel 5 is headed to South Africa in search of hippos and crocodiles. The UK terrestrial network has ordered a pair of series from Sky Studios-owned factual specialist True to Nature presented by British naturalist Steve Backshall. Croc Watch and Hippo Watch will both run to…

Gaumont UK Lands Latest Channel 5 Thriller Locked In producer Gaumont UK is making The Wives for Paramount UK network Channel 5, a six-part mystery drama about the unravelling of a family. The Wives follows four sisters-in-law and their families who escape to their Maltese holiday apartments, as…

Paramount Global’s UK network Channel 5 has been forced to pull a documentary from its schedule this evening hours before broadcast after allegations emerged one of its contributors is a “hardline Nazi.” Nikki Shaw, who was reportedly set to appear as a historian in 1928: The Year The Thames Flooded…

EXCLUSIVE: Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders producer Impossible Factual has secured greenlights from the BBC and Channel 5 for shows on the Cambridgeshire Crucifixion and Vesuvius respectively. The Cambridgeshire Crucifixion will also air on PBS, Arte and SBS, telling the story of the…

Paramount Combines Streamers Pluto & My5 In UK Paramount is to combine its AVoD platform Pluto TV with BVoD My5 in the UK. In a move that could be the precursor to the breaking down of barriers between AVoD and BVoD, the new streamer will launch in the market in the second half of next year, with…

EXCLUSIVE: Ross Kemp’s debut Channel 5 series in which he spends time in the world’s most dangerous prisons has been paused midway through filming. Deadline understands that conversations are taking place between the Paramount UK network and the producers of Ross Kemp: 72 Hours In … following an…

The British broadcasters are collaborating on a landmark free TV service that will deliver live television over broadband. Freely is being organized by Everyone TV, the organization that runs Freeview in the UK and is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Launching next year…

EXCLUSIVE: A Broadmoor hospital doc featuring “brand-new testimony from ex-patients and ex-staff” is in the works at Paramount UK network Channel 5. Inside Broadmoor [working title] will feature interviews, archive and stylized reconstructions revealing stories about one of the nation’s oldest and…

Major UK broadcasters and Prime Video have pledged extra donations to the UK’s Film & TV Charity following an astonishing 800% rise in grant applications from workers struggling with the economic downturn. The charity has also added an additional £500,000 ($636,000) to its budget as the BBC, Channel…

‘The Traitors’ Host Claudia Winkleman Wins Edinburgh Award The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman is to receive the Outstanding Achivement Award at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival. Winkleman has been a BBC stalwart for years and has been hosting smash hit Strictly Come Dancing since its inception two…

Pact Hires International Boss From UK Government UK producer trade body Pact has mined the government’s Department for Business and Trade for its next international boss. Ross Lewis replaces Dawn McCarthy-Simpson in the Head of International and Projects post after seven years as Senior Account…