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Disney+ unveils initial UK scripted slate in European originals push

Disney+ has unveiled its first slate of scripted UK originals, including a swashbuckling adventure, a post-heist thriller and a super-powered comedy. Two of the productions will be Star-branded originals while the other will be a Disney-branded original, with the commissions forming part of the company’s commitment to source, develop and produce 50 original productions in […]

‘Night Manager’ prodco Character 7 to adapt Casey Benedict thrillers

Stephen Garrett’s London-based production outfit Character 7 has won the rights to adapt novelist Holly Watt’s thrillers To The Lions and The Dead Line for the screen. Watt’s books follow the adventures of globetrotting reporter Casey Benedict, with To The Lions charting her investigation into a series of mysterious incidents in a Moroccan refugee camps, […]

AMC, BBC coproduce second Le Carré adaptation

US cable channel AMC and UK pubcaster the BBC are adapting novelist John le Carré’s book The Spy Who Came in From the Cold into a limited series. Academy Award-winner Simon Beaufoy will write the series, which is based on the story of a British intelligence officer based in East Berlin at the height of the […]

Night Manager wins Emmy, prodco hires Wolkoff

The Night Manager scooped a second Emmy last night (Sunday), with Susanne Bier getting the best directing for a miniseries gong, as one of its coproducers brings in a new development chief. Victor Reyes had already scooped the best miniseries score award in the craft Emmys, which took place last week. The Ink Factory- and […]

Night Manager firm preps new le Carré series

The prodco behind hit John Le Carré adaptation The Night Manager is now turning one of the author’s best known books – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – into a TV series. Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy will pen the cold war spy drama. The Ink Factory, which is run by Le […]