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Screen Yorkshire opens Film & TV office post-C4 move

Following Channel 4’s decision to locate its national headquarters in Leeds, Screen Yorkshire is to open a new Film and TV office in the region. The move aims to open up further opportunities to UK and international producers and looks to make Yorkshire & Humber a world-class hub for film and television. Screen Yorkshire supports […]

UK Writers’ Guild calls commissioners to “let women tell their stories”

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) is calling on commissioners to hire more female writers after it was revealed that only 28% of TV episodes in the country are written by women and females make up 16% of all film screenwriters. WGGB gathered data from over ten years aimed to uncover systematic gender inequality […]

Victoria reigns in Europe, Israel

ITV period drama Victoria has found new homes in Italy, Russia and Israel. The Mammoth Screen-produced series is going to satellite broadcaster Yes in Israel, free TV network Mediaset in Italy and Russian VOD service IVI. In Italy, the show recently launched on La Effe a pay channel owned by the Feltrinelli Group distributed on […]

Canuck net gets Cold Feet in ITVSGE bundle

Canadian specialty networks operator ZoomerMedia has acquired a package of ITV Studios Global Entertainment programming, including the rebooted comedy-drama Cold Feet. The package comprises Big Talk Productions-created Cold Feet, food series Gino’s Italian Escape: Hidden Italy, 50 episodes of Come Dine with Me and drama Brief Encounters. Cold Feet, which follows the relationships of a […]

ITV cutting jobs amid concern over Brexit

ITV is cutting about 120 staff in a cost-cutting drive, amid Brexit-driven uncertainty, with the job losses coming from all areas of the UK broadcaster’s business. The cuts will made across the board and shared proportionally across the business, meaning production and distribution arm ITV Studios will be affected. The UK-listed broadcaster gave notice of […]

Writer’s Room: Daisy Goodwin

British producer and novellist Daisy Goodwin’s first screenplay is for upcoming ITV and PBS period drama Victoria, which Mammoth Screen is making. Previously, she founded and ran UK factual indie Silver River Productions. At the beginning of 2015 I was writing a novel set in 1870. I was stuck, so to distract myself I picked […]

ITV Studios to crown Victoria in Cannes

Queen Victoria will appear in Cannes on ITV Studios Global Entertainment’s MIPTV slate. Victoria, a new period drama for ITV and PBS, will be offered to buyers and has been selected to premiere at the first MIPDrama Screenings on Sunday, April 3. In the US, PBS has revealed it will air the series in the […]

MIP unveils 12 shows for MIPDrama

The organisers of MIPTV have unveiled the dozen dramas that will be screened at its inaugural MIPDrama Screenings event. The new scripted TV day has been added to the MIPTV line-up for the first time this year, in recognition of the continued growth of, an interest in, international drama. Sections of each show will be […]

Acquisitions drive ITV Studios results

ITV Studios has reported a significant increase in revenues off the back of a prolonged acquisition spree. The content arm of UK broadcaster ITV reported sales of £782 million (US$1.2 billion) for the nine months to end-September, a 28% year-on-year increase, noting that uptick was driven by acquisitions and 9% organic growth. ITV CEO Adam […]