Amazon is set to develop a series from a fledgling British writer after setting the five finalists of its WriterSlam contest. The SVOD service has selected five new writers as part of the scheme, run in association with the TriForce Creative Network. Georgia Brown, is Director of European Originals, Amazon Studios…

House and The Night Manager star Hugh Laurie is to play a British politician in a four-part drama for the BBC. The actor will star in Roadkill, written by Collaterel's David Hare and produced by National Treasure and Kiri producer The Forge. The thriller is about self-made, forceful and charismatic politician Peter…

EXCLUSIVE: John Battsek’s Oscar-winning Passion Pictures (One Day In September), James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Love Actually writer-director Richard Curtis are teaming up to make a defining documentary about the Paralympic Games. Provisionally titled Harder Than You Think, the film will chart the history…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has handed comedy drama Brassic a second season ahead of its debut. The series, which launches today, August 22, has already been renewed by the Comcast-backed broadcaster. This Is England star Joe Gilgun, Ripper Street's Damien Molony and Our Girl's Michelle Keegan star in the series from by Calamity…

Greenland, a country few thought about before President Trump said he’d like to buy it, is dominating the news. That’s particularly true since the current owners – the country of Denmark – took great umbrage at the President’s ad-hoc offer, deeming it “absurd” in their official comment. That, of course, did not sit…

EXCLUSIVE: Seems Hollywood's top legal mandarin has hit a raw nerve with the re-election seeking head of the WGA West and the latter wants the former to stay in his lane. "Ken Ziffren is an experienced lawyer, which means there are some things he should know and some things he fully understands that he can’t know,"…

Nicholas Sparks is turning the page on his long-running legal fight with the former headmaster of the private Christian school he founded in North Carolina. A jury decided in The Notebook author’s favor Wednesday, saying he doesn’t owe the man a thing after a five-year court battle. Saul Hillel Benjamin had sued…

The revived XFL today unveiled the names and logos for its eight teams, with the Los Angeles Wildcats representing the City of Angels and the New York Guardians holding down the other coast. Other league teams include the Dallas Renegades, Houston Roughnecks, St. Louis BattleHawks, Seattle Dragons, Tampa Bay Vipers…

Bethenny Frankel, a longtime cast member on Bravo’s reality series Real Housewives of New York City, is not returning to the series next season, which will mark its 12th. "I have decided to leave the 'Housewives' franchise to explore my next chapter," Frankel told Deadline’s sister pub Variety, which was first to…

The questioners are set for next month’s Round 3 of the Democratic presidential debates on ABC and Univision. Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos, World News Tonight David Muir anchor and ABC News correspondent Linsey Davis will be posing the questions along with Univision’s Jorge Ramos. The next…