Jake Kanter

International TV Editor

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.

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‘Seven Worlds, One Planet’: BBC Wildlife Epics Must Be “Topical & Not Just Timeless” Amid Climate Crisis

For BBC wildlife producer and director Chadden Hunter, there is a scene in Seven Worlds, One Planet that sums up the show’s mission. The sequence centers on manatees gliding around hot springs in Florida’s crystal blue waters, but its dreamy quality ends with a wake-up call, as drone footage pulls out from the ocean…

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Jan 25, 2020 9:00 am
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Warner Bros Strikes First-Look Podcast Deal With New Mick Jagger Outfit Rainy Day Podcasts

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has set up podcast producer Rainy Day Podcasts — and in its first act, the company has signed a development deal with Warner Bros to make up to seven narrative podcasts. Rainy Day Podcasts is a collaboration between Jagger and his Jagged Films partner Victoria Pearman, producer…

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Jan 24, 2020 10:30 am
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‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker Quits Endemol Shine Company Amid Netflix Talks

EXCLUSIVE: Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker and his closest collaborator Annabel Jones have left their Endemol Shine Group production label House Of Tomorrow, as they continue talks with Netflix about an overall deal. Deadline can reveal that the pair resigned last year, and after serving out their notice period…

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Jan 24, 2020 10:16 am
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BBC & PBS Team To Build Waterhole In Tanzania & Rig It With Wildlife Cameras

The BBC and PBS are coming together to co-produce a wildlife show in which they build a waterhole in Tanzania’s Mwiba Wildlife Reserve and capture the creatures that drink from it in intimate detail. The drinking pool will be the first in the world to be specially rigged with television cameras, as presenters Chris…

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Jan 24, 2020 4:35 am
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‘The Night Manager’ Executive Producer Stephen Garrett Snaps Up Rights To BBC Reporter’s Russian Spy Book

The Night Manager executive producer Stephen Garrett is taking his latest run at the spy genre after his production house optioned a book on Russian espionage by the BBC’s long-time security correspondent. Character 7 has taken the rights to Gordon Corera's non-fiction book Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stori…

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Jan 23, 2020 9:45 am
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Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow Options Gill Hornby Novel ‘Miss Austen’ For TV Series

EXCLUSIVE: Baby Cow Productions is planning to make a TV drama based on Gill Hornby’s highly-anticipated new novel on the relationship between Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra. Steve Coogan’s production company has optioned Miss Austen, which was published by Penguin in the UK on Thursday and has been named as one…

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Jan 23, 2020 8:41 am
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge Launches Production House Wells Street Films

EXCLUSIVE: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the British creator of Fleabag and one of the hottest properties in Hollywood, is to realize a life-long ambition by setting up her own production company to house her Amazon projects and more. Deadline can reveal that Waller-Bridge, who has dominated awards season with marquee Emmy…

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Jan 23, 2020 7:49 am
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Sky Hits 24M Customers; Revenue Drops 3% To $19.2B

In its first full year under the ownership of Comcast, British pay-TV broadcaster Sky hit a landmark of 24M customers across Europe, but its revenue dropped 3%. According to Comcast’s fourth-quarter earnings published on Thursday, Sky added 77,000 new customers in the final three months of 2019, taking its total…

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Jan 23, 2020 5:11 am
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Renowned Films Hires Former ‘Love Island’ Commissioner Kate Maddigan

Renowned Films, the Critical Content-backed unscripted producer behind Bravo’s Backyard Envy, has hired former Love Island commissioner Kate Maddigan as its head of studios. Maddigan joins after a period executive producing Hungry Bear’s BBC One entertainment show Take Off With Bradley & Holly, which she helped…

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Jan 23, 2020 5:00 am
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Comcast To Launch NBC Sky World News Over The Summer

Comcast is planning to tap into the news resources at NBC and its British pay-TV broadcaster Sky to launch an international television news channel that will compete with CNN International and BBC World News. NBC Sky World News will go live over the summer and NBC News chairman Andy Lack told the Financial Times that…

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Jan 23, 2020 2:09 am
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Cineflix Rights Inks First-Look Deal With UK Producer Curious Films

Cineflix Rights, the UK-based distribution arm of Canada’s Cineflix Media, has signed a first-look development deal with British factual producer Curious Films. The first-look deal gives Cineflix exclusive distribution rights to Curious’ new shows in return for development funding. Its existing slate includes BBC…

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Jan 23, 2020 1:25 am
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‘Narcos’ Producer Gaumont To Turn Sandra Cisneros Novel ‘The House on Mango Street’ Into TV Series

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros’ coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street is to be adapted into a TV drama by Gaumont, the producer behind Netflix hit Narcos. The House on Mango Street is made up of series of vignettes about the characters that populate a blue-collar Chicago neighborhood, seen…

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Jan 22, 2020 8:30 am
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