Drama – Page 53
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NewsParamount+ to keep investing in international drama
Marco Nobili pledges that focus on US franchises won’t curb appetite for global hits
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NewsDeath in Paradise indie dives into murkier waters with tale of sex, drugs and power
Red Planet Pictures teams with playwright Ryan Calais Cameron for 1980s crime thriller Blood Rights
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News‘Socially responsible’ drama evokes audience recognition in undesirable characters
Fifteen-Love showrunner says it’s “not interesting to see a villain with a worldview we cannot possibly understand”
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NewsFrench civil unrest hits Series Mania
Demonstrators protesting government changes to retirement age disrupt market’s purple carpet
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NewsDistributors on FAST evolution: ‘we’re broadcasters now’
Series Mania: Banijay Rights, Fremantle, All3Media International discuss shifting focus and writers’ strike implications
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NewsMeghan Lyvers: Sky Studios has clout to self-fund high-end drama
UK and Ireland originals scripted chief says commissioning and production outfit not reliant on US partners
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NewsBBC1 dramas lead Bafta nominations
This is Going to Hurt and The Responder receive six nods each
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NewsSteven Knight pens Birmingham-based university drama
Peaky Blinders creator also updates on BBC ska drama This Town, Taboo and future Dickens projects
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NewsITV Studios America secures rights to trio of Roselle Lim novels
Books optioned through development deal with Castle’s Laurie Zaks and her company Rosewood Television
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NewsMadame Blanc indie adapting The Dales Detective novels
Saffron Cherry Productions secures rights to bestselling book series
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NewsIn brief: Gregg Wallace; Buccaneer
Presenter plans to spend more time caring for his autistic young son
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NewsAustralian TV trailblazer Brian Walsh dies
Long-standing Foxtel exec who helped build pay-TV landscape in country
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NewsAshley Walters and Coky Giedroyc to direct Steven Knight’s Disney+ series
A Thousand Blows is set in Victorian London and currently filming in the UK
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NewsFremantle drives record revenue for parent company RTL
Super-indie turnover increased 21% to £2bn, keeping it on course for £2.6bn goal in 2025
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NewsUK government to reform high-end TV tax relief
HETV projects qualifying threshold remains at £1m; documentaries to be added to tax relief measures
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NewsThe Story Collective invests in two UK scripted indies
Globel content studio backs Artis Pictures and Maia Pictures
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NewsDare Pictures moves into scripted
Cassandra Johnson-Bekoe joins Derren Lawford’s fledgling indie
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NewsHinterland team returns to BBC1 with ‘lyrical’ dark comedy drama
Cameras roll on Fiction Factory’s six-part bilingual S4C co-pro
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NewsHollywood heavyweights help History mark 250 years of the USA
Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd front docs heading up a slate that also includes Lifetime and A&E orders
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NewsHigh-end TV ‘snobbery’ towards writers’ rooms blamed for blocking drama pipeline
Entrenched attitudes are hampering ability to meet growing demand for premium scripted shows, study finds