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Playground Entertainment
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‘The Pact’ prodco Little Door recruits BBC & Playground execs
Little Door Productions, the Welsh firm behind BBC drama The Pact, is expanding its team…
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Channel 5 & PBS Masterpiece extend ‘All Creatures’ for two seasons
ViacomCBS-owned Channel 5 in the UK and PBS Masterpiece in the US have handed a…
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Playground & Red Arrow Studios on the case of ‘Inspector Maigret’ series
New York and London-based Playground Entertainment has partnered with Red Arrow Studios International to co-develop…
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Anonymous hits UK with Playground exec leading new prodco
Sophie Gardiner is exiting Playground Television to lead a new production outfit that has True…
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The State creator Peter Kosminsky preps cyber drama for C4
The State (pictured), Wolf Hall and Britz creator Peter Kosminsky has teamed with Colin Callender’s Playground…
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Returning miniseries
Distributors will tell you that if they could have one drama production in their portfolio…
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Fifty Fathoms exec joins Playground in rejig
Fifty Fathoms’s head of development, Melissa Gallant, is joining Wolf Hall producer Playground Entertainment, which…
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Sovereign drama
Top drama producers tell Jesse Whittock about the small screen’s enduring fascination with royalty. The…
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CEE nets bag All3 factual
All3Media International has closed its first deals since announcing former chief Louise Pedersen was returning…
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Playground developing refugee crisis drama
Drama producer Playground Entertainment has secured rights to The New Odyssey – The Story of…
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Starz boards BBC Two Poliakoff drama
US premium cable channel Starz has signed on as coproducer of BBC Two drama Close…
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In the spotlight: Colin Callender
Wolf Hall producer Colin Callender reveals the influences that have shaped a five-decade career spanning…
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Colin Callender’s Playground adds another UK exec
Playground Entertainment, the fast-growing prodco run by former HBO programming chief Colin Callender, has hired…
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Macallister to replace Pedersen at All3 Int’l
Sales veteran Steve Macallister is taking on the CEO job at All3Media International. The former…
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BBC, Starz find The Missing for a second season
The BBC and Starz have jointly ordered a second season of hit drama The Missing….
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Starz developing New Orleans drama with Playground
US premium cable net Starz is developing Storyville, a period drama set in turn of…
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BBC in Israeli drama remake first
UK pubcaster BBC One is working on an adaptation of Israeli scripted format The A…
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Channel 4’s Gardiner enters Playground
Channel 4’s commissioning editor, drama Sophie Gardiner has joined Playground Television, the TV arm of…
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Endemol making Phantom of the Opera TV series
Endemol’s scripted division and Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Tony Krantz are adapting Phantom of the Opera…