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Bad Robot Productions
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Amazon extends revival trend to save JJ Abrams’ ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ after HBO Max cancellation
Amazon has saved another show, this time landing former J. J. Abrams’ Batman: Caped Crusader,…
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HBO Max greenlights JJ Abrams’ & LaToya Morgan’s FBI drama ‘Duster’
HBO Max has given the go-ahead to Duster, the drama series from JJ Abrams and…
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ITV Studios & Bad Robot’s Ben Stephenson to launch new drama prodco
Bad Robot Productions head of TV and former BBC scripted chief Ben Stephenson is launching…
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BBC & Bad Robot partner to adapt children’s classic ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse’
UK pubcaster the BBC has partnered with JJ Abram’s Bad Robot Productions for an animated…
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Apple TV+ orders ‘Presumed Innocent’ adaptation from David E Kelley & JJ Abrams
Apple TV+ has commissioned an adaptation of the Scott Turow novel Presumed Innocent, from David…
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Charlie Mackesy forms prodco, links with Bad Robot to adapt ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse’
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse author Charlie Mackesy has launched a new production…
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Hulu cancels Stephen King anthology series ‘Castle Rock’
Hulu has cancelled the psychological horror series Castle Rock. It has been reported that the…
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TBI In Conversation: Bad Robot’s Ben Stephenson on ‘game-changing’ WarnerMedia deal
This latest instalment of TBI’s In Conversation strand catches up with Ben Stephenson, head of…
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CBS rejigs entertainment as Geller exits
US broadcaster CBS has upped Kelly Kahl to president of entertainment and drafted in The…
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Westworld lights up HBO Canada
Buzzy HBO drama Westworld has become the best ever launch for HBO Canada and The…
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Westworld UK launch bigger than Game of Thrones
Westworld’s debut in the UK was bigger than both Game of Thrones and Fortitude. The…
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Bad Robot boards Michael Jackson drama
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions has become a coproducer on a Warner Bros. Television event…
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Fox Europe bags Abrams’ Hulu drama
Fox Networks Group Europe has acquired rights to J.J. Abrams thriller drama 11/22/63 from Warner…
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BBC names drama indie chief
UK pubcaster the BBC has promoted Luther producer Liz Kilgarriff to become its new indie…
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BBC drama boss exits for J.J. Abrams prodco
The BBC’s drama chief, Ben Stephenson, is leaving the UK public broadcaster and relocating to…
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Abrams’ Westworld remake gets HBO order
US premium cabler HBO has confirmed a 10-episode order for a remake of 1970s sci-fi…
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Showtime recruits Bad Robot’s Roadies
US cable channel Showtime has ordered a comedy pilot about music roadies from J.J. Abrams’…
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All3 America unveils scripted arm
All3 America, the new US arm of UK producer All3Media, has opened a scripted division…