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Irvine Welsh novel set for TV remake

An Irvine Welsh novel is set to get a television adaptation, marking the such development in the acclaimed author’s career. Buccaneer Media has acquired rights to Welsh’s novel Crime, and is in Cannes searching for partners for the show, which will have the same name. Actor Dougray Scott (My Week with Marilyn) is attached to […]

Marcella co-creator joins Tony Wood indie

Marcella co-creator Nicola Larder has joined the ITV show’s production company, Buccaneer Media, as executive producer of development. Larder (pictured) has also worked with Buccaneer on Sky Living unscripted series Desi Rascals, as well as for indies such as World Productions and Leopard Drama. She joins following the ratings success of Marcella, which she co-created […]

Nick, YTV order Anglo-Canadian copro

Nickelodeon and Canada’s YTV have co-ordered a live-action series from British and Canadian production companies. The 20x30mins Ride will be a coproduction of the UK’s Buccaneer Media and Canada’s Breakthrough Entertainment. The show follows a North American girl, who moves to England with her dad when he begins a job at an elite equestrian school. […]

Buccaneer nabs Big Bro exec from Endemol Shine

London-based Buccaneer Media has poached an Endemol Shine UK executive to become its head of unscripted. Denis O’Connor (pictured) joins the firm from Endemol Shine Group’s Initial, where he was creative director of Big Brother, Big Brother’s Bit of the Side and Celebrity Big Brother. He will work alongside Buccaneer founder Tony Wood, who is […]

Cineflix snags buzzy British noir series

The distribution arm of Cineflix has won the rights to Marcella, the upcoming ‘British noir’ series from Buccaneer Media and written by Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge, pictured). Cineflix Rights will launch the series at MIPCOM next week. The series is set in London and is Rosenfeldt’s first drama for an English-speaking audience. Buccaneer was set […]

ITV sets dramas with Nye, Bridge writer

UK broadcaster ITV has commissioned a crime series from the screenwriter behind The Bridge, a drama from Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye, a prequel to Prime Suspect. Hans Rosenfeldt script for Marcella has given the greenlight, with Cineflix Media-backed Buccaneer Media attached. It is being billed as “Scandinavian noir on the streets of Britain”. […]

Sky orders British-Asian unscripted reality show

Sky Living has ordered Desi Rascals (WT), a twelve-part structured reality show about British Asians living in west London. The 12x60mins series will go out on Sky’s female-skewed entertainment channel Sky Living next year. It was created by Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham). Buccaneer Media, the UK-based prodco backed by production and distribution group […]

Buccaneer Media hires unscripted boss

Buccaneer Media has recruited Ross McCarthy as its head of unscripted. The role is a new one at UK-based producer Bucaneer, which is backed by production and distribution group Cineflix and run by former Lime Pictures boss Tony Wood. McCarthy was head of development at UK indie Outline Productions until the end of last year, […]

Cineflix clarifies position following strategic review

Cineflix has clarified that its Buccaneer Media joint venture is not part of the review that has seen it scale back its scripted division. The company added the producer has several projects in development for broadcasters in the US and the UK with news about these likely ahead of MIPCOM. Buccaneer was not part of […]

Cineflix, Tony Wood launch Buccaneer Media

Cineflix Studios has hooked up with former Lime Pictures creative Tony Wood to create a new production company that already has an Eddie Izzard project in the works. Buccaneer Media will be based in the UK and work with the scripted arm of Canada’s Cineflix Media on developing and producing a range of programmes for […]