Andreas Wiseman
NewsLionsgate set for UK TV push
Mad Men producer and distributor Lionsgate is to ramp up its push into television production in the UK and is looking to hire development and production executives.
NewsCreative industries worth £8m an hour to UK
The UK’s creative industries are worth £71.4 billion per year to the UK economy, according to new DCMS statistics.
NewsFilm 4’s Butler joins Raw TV to build ‘bold slate’
Raw TV, the indie behind feature doc The Imposter, has hired Film 4 deputy head of film Katherine Butler.
NewsThe Garden secures 20-part police doc from C4
Channel 4’s next fixed-rig doc from The Garden Productions will be set in Luton Police Station.
NewsStoryville orders Daisy Asquith doc
BBC4 doc strand Storyville and the Irish Film Board (IFB) have ordered a documentary from Crazy About One Direction-director Daisy Asquith.
NewsFilm London finds fresh drama spaces
Film and media agency Film London has identified 1.25 million sq ft of alternative stage space in the capital in a bid to satisfy growing demand.
NewsSkillset: help us help writers
Creative Skillset has urged the industry to make use of the Skills Investment Fund (SIF) to help foster the next generation of writers.
NewsDSP Mandela doc to air across Discovery network
Discovery Networks International will premiere a Darlow Smithson Productions documentary about the late South African leader Nelson Mandela in the UK tonight.
NewsSky Movies: Netflix not a competitor
Sky Movies boss Ian Lewis has told the Screen International Film Summit that Sky does not consider VoD services Netflix and LoveFilm as competitors.
NewsCompany Pictures options rights to plane crash thriller
Company Pictures has optioned TV rights to Sarah Lotz’s novel The Three, with the intention of turning the novel and its sequel into an international mini-series.
NewsWoolcock examines dog-fighting for C4
Channel 4 has green-lit a Cutting Edge documentary about illegal dog-fighting in the UK from One Mile Away director Penny Woolcock.
NewsRonan Bennett to write Wallander finale
Top Boy writer-producer Ronan Bennett is to write the final episodes of Left Bank Pictures’ crime series Wallander starring Ken Branagh.
NewsCBBC to adapt Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather
CBBC has commissioned two new dramas – including a series from Tracy Beaker author Dame Jacqueline Wilson.
NewsForum split over benefit of recruitment quotas
The topic of quotas for BAME staff was a volatile talking point at Diversify, generating mixed views from experts.
NewsKing pushes for action plan
Training issues, quotas, access and on-screen portrayal were among the hotly debated topics at Diversify, with race, class, gender, sexuality, geography and age all still having a disproportionate bearing on employment in the film and TV industries, both in front of and behind the camera.
NewsPulse cues up Sony music deal
Sony/ATV Music Publishing has agreed a deal to sell Pulse Films’ originally-commissioned film and TV music.
NewsTV and film fail on diversity
BBC commissioning editor for religion Aaqil Ahmed has said the UK TV and film industries should be “ashamed” of the decline in BAME representation across the creative media.
NewsKudos plots Spooks film
Long running BBC series Spooks is to be made into a film produced by Kudos’ Jane Featherstone and Stephen Garrett.
NewsUnited Talent: Twitter first screen for many
Agents are increasingly looking to harness social media as multi-screen viewing grows.
NewsKill List's Ben Wheatley to direct Doctor Who
The BBC has chosen acclaimed film director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers) to introduce Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who.