Brighton-based production company Studio Crook has acquired the rights to develop the first of Helen Black’s Lilly Valentine legal book series, Damaged Goods, into a returning television drama series Valentine (6×60’). Black, an ex-lawyer, became known for her popular crime novels based on her own experiences before turning to script writing including co-writing season 2 […]
PacketLight Networks, a provider of DWDM and OTN equipment, today announced that its 200G devices now support native 12G-SDI service for the transport of 4K video. Both the PL-2000M 200G Single Wavelength Muxponder and the PL-2000ADS 2x100G ADM/Muxponder for Short Haul networks transport a mix of data, storage, voice, and video services over data centre […]
Eutelsat Communications has announced that PSSI Global Services has signed a new agreement, renewing and expanding a partnership for capacity on its Eutelsat 113 West A satellite. PSSI Global Services is a specialist in broadcast transmission solutions for major live sports events. With over 40 years of experience, along with the Pittsburg Teleport Gateway and […]
Former Youngest Media founder David Flynn has announced the launch of new studio Plegazoid, dedicated to creating innovative content. Plegazoid has entered into an exclusive joint venture agreement with South Shore, producer of recent Channel 4 hit Don’t Look Down, to develop and produce non scripted formats together. Flynn, a serial creator and producer of […]
The UK film and screen industry is failing to tackle sexual harassment, with some victims punished or victimised if they do speak out, according to a report looking at the experiences of staff in a range of roles across the television and film industry. The research, led by an academic at the University of York, […]
The first-ever live stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ internationally acclaimed novel and Lionsgate’s worldwide box office phenomenon, The Hunger Games, will make its debut in London in autumn 2024. Heralded by the New York Times as the best playwright of his generation, the multi award-winning Conor McPherson has adapted the first book from Suzanne Collins’ […]
Green Light Films announces its launch as an all-rights distribution and co-production company for the Ukrainian market. Backed by the holding group that hosts the Multiplex chain of cinemas, Green Light Films is dedicated to building its slate directly with global and western multi-regional licensors of high-quality international titles and prestige festival films that have […]
Following the success of Eric Ravilious – Drawn To War, Foxtrot Films, led by BAFTA award winning Writer/Director/Producer Margy Kinmonth and Emmy Award winning Producer/Executive Producer Maureen Murray, is in production on a new Sky Original feature documentary: Women at War – The Invisible Army. The film will open theatrically internationally and then air on […]
The rights to hit novel 29 Seconds, written by ‘Master of the up-all-night thriller’ T.M. Logan, have been snapped up by Big Light Productions. The Leonardo producer, founded by award-winning writer and producer Frank Spotnitz (Devils, Medici, The Man in the High Castle, The X-Files), will develop the thriller into a limited drama series, as part of their first look deal with Tomorrow Studios, an […]
Paramount+ has released a series of teaser images, giving the first glimpse of Annabel Scholey, Jack Farthing and Luke Treadaway in their lead roles in new original UK drama series The Serial Killer’s Wife. Angela Griffin (Waterloo Road, Crime, The Suspect) is also seen for the first time as DI Aline Edgeworth, someone deeply driven to […]