The Widow


Amazon teams with ITV for Kate Beckinsale drama

Amazon Prime Video and UK broadcaster ITV are coproducing a limited drama series starring Kate Beckinsale. The Widow will see the Underworld franchise actor playing a grieving widow who receives a phone call that turns her life upside down and takes her to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Commissioning broadcaster ITV, which […]

All3Media buys into drama indie

All3Media has bought into Story Films, the UK drama indie run by David Nath and Peter Beard. Nath (pictured above, right) made the award winning drama-influenced doc series The Murder Detectives (below) and moved into drama with The Watchman, both for Channel 4. Beard (above, left) has also made docs and drama, and is best-known for My […]

Wolf Hall prodco taking The Widow to TV

Playground picked up rights to several book properties that it will seek to adapt for TV, including Fiona Barton’s psychological thriller The Widow. The prodco, which made hit BBC period drama Wolf Hall, has also snapped up rights to non-fiction book Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories, a real-life account of a barrister’s life. Louise Pedersen, managing […]