Sex Education producer Rem Conway has joined Kudos Knight, the creative partnership between Deadwater Fell prodco Kudos and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, as development producer. Birmingham-based Conway will be tasked with leading plans to grow a world-renowned scripted production hub in the West Midlands in the UK. He will support the Kudos Knight management […]
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is developing a drama series around the life of William Shakespeare, based on a concept from Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire. The series is being produced by Banijay UK label Kudos, alongside Lancashire and Peter Salmon’s firm Via Pictures, at Knight’s Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham. The series will tell […]
SAS Rogue Heroes producer Kudos has hired former Left Bank Pictures exec Jemima Jennings to a newly created development executive role. Jennings is tasked with developing scripted ideas for the Banijay-owned producer, whose output includes Steven Knight’s SAS Rogue Heroes and This Town for the BBC, as well as long-running ITV drama Grantchester and the […]
Banijay-owned UK prodco Kudos has signed a first-look deal with Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders and the firm’s upcoming wartime series SAS: Rogue Heroes. Under the agreement, Deadwater Fell and Grantchester producer Kudos gets the first look on future UK based projects originated by Knight. Local pubcaster the BBC has already ordered six-part […]
France’s Canal+ has acquired six-part wartime drama Rogue Heroes, from distributor Banijay Rights. The series will be broadcast on Canal+ in France and for all Canal+ territories around the world in late 2022. The agreement, which was struck at MIPTV this week, follows MGM-owned network Epix’s acquisition of the drama for the US in November […]
Banijay’s UK producer Kudos has taken a 25% stake in podcast company, What’s the Story?. The investment follows Kudos’s first-look deal with the company signed a year ago, which has led to new scripted ideas, for both TV and audio, going into development. What’s the Story? is led by ex-TV producers Darrell Brown and Sophie […]
Kudos hires StudioCanal alum for finance Kudos has appointed James Forde, the former COO and CFO of StudioCanal, as its new finance director with immediate effect, Reporting to Kudos joint-MD Martin Haines, Forde will lead the Kudos finance team, creating an operational infrastructure to service Kudos and Wild Mercury productions. Taking responsibility for financial management, reporting, governance and the […]
MGM-owned US network Epix has acquired six-part wartime drama SAS: Rogue Heroes, in the first international deal for the show from distributor Banijay Rights. Produced by Banijay UK label Kudos and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s indie Nebulastar for UK pubcaster the BBC, the series is a dramatised account of how British special forces unit, […]
Global streamer BritBox has appointed former Kudos CEO Diederick Santer to the newly created role of chief creative officer. Santer will join the BBC Studios (BBCS) and ITV joint-venture streamer in September and will oversee all aspects of programming on the SVOD service globally, including commissioning and acquisition across all genres and for all markets […]
Amazon has cancelled conspiracy thriller Utopia after just one season. The show, which was a straight-to-series adaptation of the British drama of the same name, was written and showrun by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn, and premiered on Amazon Prime Video in September. The story follows a group of comic book-obsessed young adults […]
