Scripted


Warner Bros. TV names development chief, backtracks on closure of diversity program

Warner Bros. Television, fresh from swinging cuts earlier this week, has named Parul Agrawal as its SVP & head of drama development and backtracked on plans to close its Workshop program. Agrawal replaces Leigh London Redman, who joined Berlanti Productions as its president in July, and will report to WBTV’s EVP & head of development Clancy Collins […]

Exclusive: France TV, Rai & ZDF pick up Bellingcat drama ‘The Kollective’

France Televisions, Italian pubcaster Rai and Germany’s ZDF have picked up Bellingcat drama The Kollective, which is being written by Gomorrah scribes Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravioli. The show, which has been in the works since 2019, is being produced by Amsterdam-based Submarine and has been inspired by the company’s hit documentary Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth […]

All3Media rolls Filmpool Fiction into new German scripted arm to be led by ex-Red Arrow Int’l MD

All3Media is rolling Tatort producer Filmpool Fiction into a new German scripted division to be led by former Red Arrow International MD, Irina Ignatiew-Lemke. All3Media Deutschland Fiction will be based in Berlin, with offices in Cologne and Munich, and will see Filmpool Fiction – producer of Polizeiruf 110 and Kommissar Dupin – become part of the new German drama business. Ignatiew-Lemke […]

Wiip gets ‘The Memo’, options upcoming novel for screen

Mare Of Easttown producer Wiip has optioned upcoming novel The Memo following what the company describes as “a heated bidding war.” The novel, co-written by former Wall Street Journal reporters Rachel Dodes and Lauren Mechling, will be developed for television by Wiip in collaboration with Lean Machine, the production company headed by screenwriter and director […]

Warner Bros. TV cuts 125 jobs as restructuring expanded

A new wave of redundancies has hit Warner Bros. Discovery, with around 125 positions cut at Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) as part of the ongoing restructuring. The Channing Dungey-led division has laid off 82 people this week and will no longer seek to fill a further 43 vacant positions, across scripted, unscripted and animation. […]

Netflix hires HBO Max alum to lead adult animated series following Mike Moon exit

Netflix has named former HBO Max exec Billy Wee to leads it adult animation push, replacing the outgoing Mike Moon. Wee becomes director of adult animation comedy series from LA and reports into John Derderian, Netflix’s VP of animated series. He replaces Moon, who left in July. He was most recently SVP of comedy & […]

Urban Myth & The Imaginarium team for ‘Wicker Man’ TV series adaptation

Urban Myth Films and The Imaginarium have teamed up and acquired the rights from StudioCanal to produce a TV series adaptation of cult horror film The Wicker Man. Howard Overman will pen the adaptation, which is described as a “total reimagining” of the 1973 British folk horror film that starred Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward. […]

Sky Studios inks first-look deal with podcast firm Tortoise Media

Sky Studios has inked an exclusive multi-year first look deal with UK-based podcast firm Tortoise Media to adapt its titles into scripted and unscripted series and features. The two companies will develop the properties together, to be turned into Sky Original productions, with Sky Studios getting exclusive access to titles such as weekly investigative podcast, […]

‘Normal People’ prodco Element Pictures hires Two Brothers exec as creative director

Normal People producer Element Pictures has hired Two Brothers Pictures exec Christopher Aird as creative director. In the newly created role, he will work alongside Element founder and co-CEO Ed Guiney to manage the development and production slate across TV and film for the UK, US, and international market. Based in London and commencing the role […]

Denmark’s producers ‘completely screwed’ as ‘greed, overestimation of demand’ blamed for streamer stand-off

Denmark’s stand-off between creatives and streamers such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and TV2 Play has left the country’s production industry “completely screwed”, leaving one of the country’s biggest execs urging Create Denmark to compromise to avoid the industry going under. Lars Hermann, the former DR exec who now works for Blackwater producer Apple Tree Productions, […]