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Banijay UK Lets Staff Go From Producer Of Celeb Chef Mary Berry’s Shows As Sidney Street Founder Karen Ross Moves To Showrunner Role
EXCLUSIVE: Staff at British unscripted producer Sidney Street have exited, as company founder Karen Ross moves to a freelance showrunner role within Banijay UK.
Ross, who has led Sidney Street since founding it in 2017, will step down from her Managing Director role following a restructure that sees…
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Naveen Andrews Joins Paramount+’s ‘Last King Of The Cross’ Season 2
EXCLUSIVE: Naveen Andrews has joined the cast of Paramount+’s Australian drama series Last King of the Cross.
He will play lead antagonist Ray Kinnock in the second season of the show, which tells the story of Sydney nightclub kingpin John Ibrahim (Lincoln Younes) and his brother Sam (Claude…
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Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue On Board Crave’s First Adult Animation ‘Super Team Canada’; Brothers Joel H. Cohen & Robert Cohen Writing
EXCLUSIVE: Will Arnett is helping to assemble Super Team Canada.
The Bojack Horseman and Arrested Development star’s production house, Electric Avenue is co-producing the animated show alongside Thunderbird Entertainment’s Atomic Cartoons in association with Bell Media’s streamer Crave.
Robert…
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International Insider: Probe Spooks UK Drama Biz; Laying Out The Layoffs; WBD’s Turkey Plan
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AGC Television To Adapt ‘Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles’ Trilogy As Series, With Thor Freudenthal Directing
AGC Television is adapting an R.V. Bowman young adult novel trilogy into a live-action family series.
Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles will be created from the book of the same name, with Thor Freudenthal (Words on A Bathroom Wall, Carnival Row) is attached to direct and Lucy Brown (Bri…
Why Buying Turkey’s BluTV Provides A Blueprint For Warner Bros Discovery’s International Streaming Ambitions
EXCLUSIVE: When BluTV CEO Deniz Şaşmaz Oflaz recently travelled to Miami for a conference, she was spoken to by border security. Not because the guard at passport control had any issues, but because his mother was watching a Turkish TV show and he was thrilled to be meeting one of the main players behind…
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Netflix Adapting Oscar-Nominated Spanish Film ‘My Dearest Señorita’; Streamer Provides First Look At Anti-Hero Drama Series ‘Superstar’
Netflix has ordered another Spanish film, My Dearest Señorita, and unveiled a first look at upcoming drama series Superstar at an event in Madrid.
My Dearest Señorita, produced by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, is an adaptation of the 1972 Oscar-nominated film of the same name directed by Jaime de…
K-Drama Comics Platform Manta Introduces Webnovels Vertical So Audience Can Read Original Source Material
EXCLUSIVE: K-drama’s popularity continues to soar, and digital platform Manta has found a spot in the genre’s ecosystem, offering webcomics for a price. Manta is now introducing Manta Novels, which will bring the source material for several of the platform’s most popular comics to English-language…
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Cineflix Rights Snaps Up Greg Johnson From ITV Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Cineflix Rights has snapped up ITV Studios’ distribution boss in the U.S.
Greg Johnson has moved to the Last King of the Cross distributor in the newly-created post of EVP Americas and Asia Pacific, as Cineflix looks to expand in the region.
Reporting to CEO Tim Mutimer and starting…
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British Equity & ITC Agree New Pay Deal To Help UK’s Struggling Theater Workers
British Equity has struck a three-year agreement with the Independent Theatre Council (ITC) that will give British theater workers better pay, as the UK’s cost of living crisis continues.
Terms of the new pact will see pay and other financial provisions on the minimum daily and weekly rates rise 5%…
Netflix Boards Feature Doc About British Social Media Stars The Sidemen
Netflix has acquired a doc about British YouTubers The Sidemen — the debut project from former YouTube EMEA content chief Luke Hyams’ production company.
A teaser posted yesterday on social media for uber-popular group confirmed the Netflix deal for The Sidemen Story, with a launch date of February…
ITV Spent $68M On Diverse Shows In 2023; STV Studios Majority Stake; Newen Partnership; ‘Spinners’ Sale; WBC Boxing Series – Global Briefs
ITV Spent $68M On Diverse Shows In 2023
ITV invested £54.2M ($68M) of its Diversity Commissioning Fund last year on shows made by or about people from under-represented backgrounds such as Lenny Henry’s Three Little Birds. The fund was launched in 2022 with £80M to be spent across three years to…
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