Eccho takes ‘I Am Mother’ rights Eccho Rights has acquired worldwide rights to the Turkish drama I Am Mother, ahead of its debut on Show TV next week. Produced by O3 Medya, the series tells the story of Karsu, a resilient mother of three who relocates from Adana to Istanbul and starts anew in the […]
BBC One in the UK is prepping a 90-minute documentary take viewers behind the scenes of the first year of the reign of King Charles III. Charles III: The Coronation Year is from Oxford Films and will offer insights into the life of the king and Queen Camilla, with Helena Bonham Carter narrating. The doc […]
BBC motoring show Top Gear is to be rested “for the foreseeable future” following the crash involving presenter Freddie Flintoff last year. The future of the programme, which has been an international bestseller for BBC Studios as well as a regular for BBC One, was thrown into doubt in March after the UK broadcaster said […]
Banijay Rights has picked up distribution of Wolf Hall from BBC Studios (BBCS), with the adaptation of the final novel from the Hilary Mantel series now confirmed by the UK’s BBC and Masterpiece in the US. Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light will again be directed by Peter Kosminsky (The Undeclared War) and adapted […]
ITV Studios-owned factual producer Plimsoll Productions has promoted Mark Brownlow to the role of creative director, natural history. He will continue to report to Martha Holmes, Plimsoll’s CCO of natural history and science, and succeeds Tom Hugh-Jones in the role, who plans to depart at the end of the year, after being elevated into the […]
Australian broadcaster ABC has commissioned Return To Paradise, a spin-off from long-running British-French crime comedy series Death In Paradise. Set to launch on ABC in 2024, the series is being produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia with Red Planet Pictures, in association with UK pubcaster the BBC, which will screen the series on BBC One […]
Mitre Studios, the UK production company run by TV personalities Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, have appointed Great Scott Media co-founder and Talkback and BBC alum Ed Sleeman to the position of managing director. Sleeman will lead the team and drive content opportunities across multiple platforms and genres. Reporting directly to the board, he will […]
BBC factual entertainment commissioner Clare Mottershead and ITN exec Nat Lippiett have joined Orchard Studios, the UK prodco launched by former Amazon Studios UK & Northern Europe chief Dan Grabiner. Lippiett, who was behind Harry: The Interview last year and Prime Video’s docuseries The Confession, becomes head of programmes at Orchard, which was founded by […]
The UK’s BBC has greenlit a third run of hit format The Traitors, ahead of the launch of its second season. The psychological reality competition show sees 22 strangers play the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning up to £120,000 ($146,000). The BBC claimed that the first season of […]
Irish crime drama Kin has been picked up by the UK’s BBC. The eight-part series was produced for Ireland’s RTÉ by BRON Studios, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, alongside Headline Pictures (The Man In The High Castle), with Fifth Season distributing. The series is written and created by Peter McKenna (The Last Kingdom). […]
