Jake joined Deadline in 2019 from Business Insider, where he was the UK Executive Editor, overseeing a 60-strong London bureau and serving tens of millions of readers every month. He also wrote about media and tech, breaking scoops on companies including Facebook, Amazon and the BBC. Prior to his time at Business Insider, he spent six years at Broadcast, where he rose from reporter to news editor and launched the popular Talking TV podcast. Jake is also chair of the Broadcasting Press Guild, a 45-year-old association of the UK's top media journalists.
CBS has set the scene for its blockbuster Meghan Markle and Prince Harry interview by releasing the latest tease of the sit-down, in which the Duchess of Sussex says it feels “liberating” to be able to speak her truth since breaking with the royal family.
CBS This Morning carried an exclusive extended clip from the…
Channel 4 Visits ‘Murder Island’
Channel 4 has commissioned STV Studios, the producer behind BBC crime drama The Victim, to make genre-bending immersive competition format Murder Island. The six-part series blends factual entertainment and crime drama by asking members of the public to play detective in a murder…
Happy Friday all, and welcome to International Insider, your weekly guide to everything that’s worth knowing in film and TV outside of America. Jake Kanter with you this week. Got feedback or a story? I’m on jkanter@deadline.com or my DMs are open on Twitter. And sign up here to get this delivered to your inbox every…
David Beckham is in talks to front a show for Disney+ in which he will mentor a team of young soccer players in London.
Deadline understands that the show is yet to be greenlit, but conversations are taking place after The Sun reported that producers have been casting at Hackney Marshes, a mecca for grassroots soccer…
Mr Turner and Summer Of Rockets actor Timothy Spall has joined Lesley Manville to headline PBS/BritBox crime series Magpie Murders, which goes into production next week in Suffolk and Ireland.
The five-time BAFTA nominee will star as the clever and complex detective Atticus Pünd in the six-part series about editor…
Disney+ suffered more technical difficulties as subscribers rushed to watch the season finale of Marvel series WandaVision.
Downdetector, a website that monitors web outages, showed that there had been a big spike in people reporting problems with their Disney+ service — just as the latest episode of WandaVision…
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 5 is revisiting classic UK lifestyle showYou Are What You Eat and giving it a contemporary twist by installing presenter Trisha Goddard as host.
The original show broadcast on Channel 4 between 2004 and 2007, with presenter Gillian McKeith helping people improve their diets by, among other things…
EXCLUSIVE: ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group has sealed a raft of international deals for CBS’ headline-hogging interview between Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
The interview special, titled Oprah With Meghan And Harry, has been licensed in more than 70 territories, including Australia (Network…
BBC and Netflix series Attenborough’s Life In Colour sets out to explore the wonder of nature and its kaleidoscope of colors, but for producers at Humble Bee Films, filming the natural history show was far from black and white.
Executive producer Stephen Dunleavy tells Deadline that soon after production got underway…
ITV has announced a glut of new content as part of a spring showcase, including revealing that it has greenlit a true-crime drama series on John Darwin, the former prison officer who was jailed for faking his own death.
All3Media-backed Story Films is making four-part series The Thief, His Wife and theCanoe, which is…
ITV has confirmed that hit entertainment showLove Island will be restored to its summer schedule after last year’s sun-soaked dating format was derailed by the coronavirus pandemic.
ITV’s content chief Kevin Lygo said Love Island will be back after it has been off-air for around a year. The last season was a winter…
