UK’s Jack Thorne-Backed TV Access Project Finds New Lead The UK’s TV Access Project (TAP), which counts Jack Thorne amongst its founders and is fighting for improved access for disabled talent, has a new project lead. Heloise Beaton joins from her role as Disability Lead at thinkBIGGER!, where she worked with the likes of BAFTA […]
Noah Schnapp has taken to TikTok to address controversy around his thoughts on the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. While the Stranger Things star didn’t say exactly what he was responding to, he said his “thoughts and beliefs have been so far misconstrued from anything even close” to what he believes during a 107-second video posted yesterday. […]
“It was a good night,” Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content, said after the Emmy ceremony, and not only because HBO/Max topped the list of networks and platforms with 31 wins across 11 series. “Especially, I will say after the year this entire industry has gone through, it was nice to […]
The BBC today unveiled the 57 companies that have won cash funding through the 2024 round of its Small Indie Fund. Launched in 2020, the fund was established to support the growth of small independent production companies across the UK with turnovers below £10m across drama, entertainment, comedy, factual, daytime, and children’s. For the first […]
EXCLUSIVE: The UK-based VFX and animation company Jellyfish Pictures has made two senior hires in an expansion of its VFX division. Industrial Light & Magic and NVIZ alum Jamie Wood has been appointed Head of Compositing. Wood joins with over 22 years of compositing experience. He most recently worked on Netflix’s feature Heart of Stone […]
ITV’s decision to kick Love Island: All Stars into its main channel schedule failed to reap rewards, with just 1M tuning in to the opener last night on ITV 1 and a further 500,000 on ITV 2. A share of less than 12% of overall viewers watched the new spin-off, which is seeing the return […]
The FOX Network broadcast itself was simply great (more on that below) but I have a severe case of déjà vu after attending Monday night’s 75th annual Emmy Awards. It is as if in this vast TV universe of networks, streamers, cable, You Tube and more content that a human being could ever consume, the […]
EXCLUSIVE: DDA has set a series of promotions in an expansion of the senior leadership team in its UK Consumer Publicity Division and International Publicity Department. Teresa Arundel has been promoted from Vice President to Senior Vice President, leading the UK Consumer Publicity team, encompassing Film, TV, Awards, and Brands Publicity. Adele Ibbotson has been […]
French cinema saw its fortunes rise at the international box office in 2023 after three difficult Covid-19 and post pandemic years, according to the annual report of export agency Unifrance released on Tuesday. The new figures showed that worldwide admissions for all feature films involving a French partner generated 37.4M admissions in 2023, representing a […]
Box to Box Films, the production company behind Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive To Survive, has secured a multi-million dollar investment. Deadline understands that private equity investor Bruin Capital has invested in the company. It’s not clear what stake Bruin has taken, but it’s believed to be a minority investment. Box to Box, which is also behind series […]
Netflix’s massive eight total Emmy wins for limited series Beef should provide enough momentum for a second season greenlight despite no official decision yet for what was a close-ended Season 1. Still, creator Lee Sung Jin is totally open to one. “I feel like there are so many paths,” the writer-director-produicer said backstage at […]
Three shows and three networks dominated the 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, with HBO’s Succession, FX’s The Bear and Netflix’s Beef leaving all other programs in the dust. HBO scored a leading nine statuettes at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with Netflix and FX taking six each. See the list of wins by […]
