Monday round-up: Latest news, deals & hires

Bad Boy gets second season   

Hebrew-language drama Bad Boy, which became a global hit on Netflix earlier this year, has been extended into a second season by Hot in Israel.

The drama, created by screenwriter Ron Leshem (Euphoria) and filmmaker Hagar Ben Asher, is inspired by true events around the life story of Daniel Chen and tracks his life from juvenile detention centre to comedian.

The show’s first season was picked up by Netflix and went on to become a top-10 in 45 markets globally. The streamer has not yet confirmed if it has also bagged S2 rights.

Bad Boy is produced and co-financed by Sipur and Peter Chernin’s North Road Company, with Hot and Tedy Productions producing.

MTV axes Ridiculousness

Paramount-owned MTV has cancelled long-running clip show Ridiculousness after a 14-year run.

The show, which will have run for 50 seasons once the final episodes air on MTV next year, features creator and host Rob Dyrdek reacting to online videos, with his prodco Super Jacket producing.

Its cancellation comes as Paramount looks to reboot MTV following a wave of job cuts that came as part of last week’s restructuring in the US.

UK’s 5 takes in Taggart

Paramount-owned 5 in the UK has acquired all 110 episodes of hit Scottish drama Taggart in a deal with STV Studios.

The long-running detective series will be made available on 5’s streaming service, in STV Studios’ latest deal for the series, which has sold to over 140 territories worldwide.

Spanning 27 series, Glenn Chandler-created Taggart ran from 1983 to 2010 and is one of the world’s most enduring crime dramas. Set in Glasgow, it follows a team of detectives from the fictional Maryhill CID as they investigate complex murder cases.

The drama will join 5’s original dramas such as Ellis, Murder Before Evensong and Cooper and Fry, and Paramount+ UK offerings like The Serial Killer’s Wife on 5’s streamer.

Grierson Trust names Trustee Award winner

The Grierson Trust has named this year’s recipient of its Trustee Award for outstanding contribution to the art and craft of documentary as editor Rupert Houseman.

Houseman has a long history of editing acclaimed and “culturally impactful” documentaries over the past two decades, according to the Grierson Trust, with a body of work that includes BBC2’s Rockie Awards Grand Jury Prize-winning Hell Jumper, Bafta-winning Otto Baxter: Not a F**king Horror Story and Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – both for Sky, Channel 4’s Grayson’s Art Club, and BBC duo Gun No.6 and 7/7: One Day in London.

Alongside his credits, he has also played a key role in developing opportunities for emerging talent, having co-founded a groundbreaking editor training scheme in collaboration with Jonathan Smith, The Garden and Channel 4 in 2012. Read more

Netflix, C4 back UK creative career scheme

Netflix and Channel 4 are among the organisations supporting a government campaign to encourage more young people from working class and underrepresented backgrounds outside of London to consider a career in the creative sector.

The Discover! Creative Careers campaign has been co-created and delivered with CreativeUK and ScreenSkills. Other bodies supporting it are Ubisoft, National Youth Theatre, Co-op Live, UKMusic, WPP and UCAS.

The campaign runs across November and provides young people aged 11 to 18 with employer-led experiences and opportunities to expose them to roles available in the creative industries. Read more