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‘Succession’ EP Lucy Prebble awarded 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship

Succession exec producer Lucy Prebble has been awarded the prestigious 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship. The Wellcome Trust’s seventh annual fellowship – which is presented in partnership with the British Film Institute (BFI) and Film4 – awards a screenwriter with £30,000 ($38,000) to explore the intersection between screenwriting, health and science. Writers are granted access to […]

BBC Two delivers Victorian medicine comedy

UK terrestrial BBC Two ha ordered a comedy from Lucky Giant about four pioneering young medical professionals in Victorian England. Quacks will star Mathew Baynton (The Wrong Mans) as a psychiatrist, Rory Kinnear (Skyfall) as a showman surgeon, Tom Basden (Plebs) as a hedonistic anaesthetist, and Lydia Leonard (River) as a head strong social campaigner. […]

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