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EXCLUSIVE: London and LA-based production and management firm 42 is on a roll. Latest movie Ironbark, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was yesterday snapped up by Lionsgate at Sundance in a mid-seven figure deal, while feel-good comedy pic Military Wives was one of the sparkier U.S. acquisitions at Toronto. Today, we…

MGM Television has struck a first-look deal with British management and production company 42, the business behind the latest adaptation of Watership Down and Channel 4 and Netflix drama Traitors. The two companies have inked the multi-year production deal to identify and co-develop scripted series for the U.S…

Production has kicked off on Julian Fellowes' Netflix drama The English Game. This comes after HBO picked up Downton Abbey creator's period drama The Gilded Age, taking over from NBC. The English Game, which is written and exec produced by Fellowes and produced by Traitors and Watership Down producer 42, is a six-part…

Sky has ordered a third season of its original UK drama-thriller series Tin Star, starring Tim Roth, Genevieve O'Reilly and Abigail Lawrie. Plot details are unknown at this stage but Sky says the “final chapter of the trilogy”, created by British writer Rowan Joffe, will pick up where season two recently left off with…

A Private War star Rosamund Pike, Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi, Crazy Rich Asians' Gemma Chan and Kingsman's Taron Egerton have joined the voice cast of the BBC and Netflix's adaptation of Watership Down. It comes as the first images of the show are revealed. The quartet join the likes of James McAvoy, Daniel Kaluuya…

Rob Lowe is to star in British crime drama Wild Bill for ITV produced by Traitors and Watership Down producer 42, Maniac producer Anonymous Content and Shiver. Lowe will play high-flying US cop, Bill Hixon, who is appointed Chief Constable of the East Lincolnshire Police Force in the six-part series. Wild Bill is…

EXCLUSIVE: Ambitious LA and London-based management and production outfit 42 is bolstering its production ranks with a trio of key hires. Former Cohen Media Group and Miramax exec Erica Steinberg is joining as Senior Vice President, Film, and former Red Wagon Entertainment exec Charlie Morrison is newly on board as…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has signed management/production company 42 to a multi-year, first-look development, financing and production deal for feature films. This comes after 42 collaborated with Netflix on Sand Castle, The Titan and In Darkness in some territories. Upcoming 42 films with Netflix include the Jim…

Busy Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes is joining with Netflix and London- and LA-based 42 on a new series about the invention of modern football (soccer). The news emerged at Netflix's See What's Next event in Rome on Wednesday morning and was among a host of new projects announced. Netflix VP of International…

EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, a man who knows a thing or two about writing about the wealthy, has set his sights on the richest family in history for his next project. I hear that Fellowes is developing a TV series about the Rothschild banking dynasty, who, in one generation, rose from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Rory Aitken, Ben Pugh, Josh Varney and Kate Buckley’s management and production company, 42, has brought Cathy King into the fray as Literary Manager and Partner. Formerly at London’s Independent Talent Group, the respected King will continue to work with a high-profile client list at 42 that includes such…

Channel 4 has ordered six-part period espionage epic Jerusalem, written and created by Bash Doran. This is the Masters Of Sex and Boardwalk Empire writer’s first original commission for British television. It’s set in the aftermath of WWII, when Britain was struggling to define itself in a new world order. The news…