All the latest news from the global content industry on Thursday, 5 November

 

Easy Tiger lands Three Reasons for Revenge

Colin From Accounts outfit Easy Tiger Productions has landed rights to Dervla McTiernan’s novel Three Reasons for Revenge

The Aussie prodco has tapped Shaun Grant (Narrow Road to the Deep North) to write the screenplay for the psychological thriller, which was published this year.

The story follows three seemingly unconnected people who are brought together in a web of deceit and unhealed wounds.

Dan Conaway and Tom Ishizuka for Writers House struck the Easy Tiger deal.

 

Who the Hell is Hamish? gets global Paramount+ debut date

Paramount+ is to premiere its Australian drama Who the Hell is Hamish? globally on from 10 December.

All six episodes will drop in one go, with the Dominic Cooper and Claire van der Boom-led show inspired by the true story of an industrial fraudster and the victims who banded together to take him down.

The series has been written and created by Adam Zwar (Austin), directed by Jeffrey Walker (The Artful Dodger) and produced by Hoodlum Entertainment and CBS Studios.

The series is distributed outside of Paramount+ markets by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

 

Big Brother drives record viewing for ITVX

ITVX has broken its annual viewing record in just 10 months, hitting 3.6bn streams at the end of October.

The milestone builds on an already record-breaking 2025, with this year’s figures helped by what has become the best October on record for the platform with 358m streams (counted each time a viewer clicks play on a piece of content), a 33% increase year on year.

October also marked the platform’s biggest year-on-year streaming jump for 2026, outside of World Cup months.

This was driven by reality giant Big Brother, which heads into its final tonight (5 November) and has held the number one spot on the platform with over 30m streams for the month. Read more

 

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