Animation studio Aardman, home to the likes of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, has greenlit a new series for 7- to 11-year-olds called Lloyd of the Flies. CITV has ordered 52 x 11-minute episodes, which will be created using a mix of CGI and 2D animation. The production will be the first CGI […]
Netflix has confirmed it is establishing a new base in Canada. In a blog post, Ted Sandaros, Co-CEO and Chief Content Officer at Netflix, said: “We want to […] make a new home for Netflix in Canada – opening an office and hiring a dedicated content executive to work directly with the Canadian creative community.” […]
HBO Max has announced series orders for three new adult animated series including: a ten-episode series order for Warner Bros Animation’s Velma, a new comedic origin story starring the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc gang, Velma Dinkley, voiced by executive producer Mindy Kaling; Clone High, a modern refresh of the hit series […]
The BBC has acquired season one of The Terror from AMC Studios International. The series is inspired by true events and is a fictionalised account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to the Arctic. It follows the Royal Navy’s perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced […]
Amazon Studios has ordered a TV adaptation of Jenny Han’s series of young adult novers The Summer I Turned Pretty. The eight-episode season will launch exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on a date TBC, and is a co-production of Amazon Studios and wiip. The Summer I Turned Pretty […]
Amazon and Michael B. Jordan’s production banner, Outlier Society, have enhanced their partnership, signing the Hollywood actor and his company into a first-look film deal and an overall television deal. Amazon said the deal will see Outlier “produce and acquire elevated films showcasing diverse, bold filmmakers and talent for the studio’s ever-growing original movies slate.” […]
Higher Ground Productions, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, in partnership with Netflix, have announced a new slate of upcoming projects. The content encompasses a range of fiction, non-fiction and kids & family across both series and feature films. This announcement builds on their existing slate of projects which includes Academy Award winning […]
London and LA based production company Lightbox is to exit Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund (IGF). Lightbox was one of the first companies to join Channel 4’s IGF when it launched in 2014, and has now jointly agreed with Channel 4 to buy back its shares for an undisclosed amount. Channel 4 says the decision […]
Building on the Christmas 2020 success of Zog and the Flying Doctors, Magic Light Pictures, the multi-Oscar nominated production company, is bringing Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s celebrated story Superworm to BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The voice cast for the adaptation will be headlined by Olivia Colman as narrator and alongside Matt Smith playing […]
Official figures published by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit reveal strong signs of economic recovery in UK film and high-end TV (HETV) production following months of suspended filming in the wake of the pandemic. The final three months have recorded a £1.19 billion spend in the final quarter of 2020, the second highest spend […]