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EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Fire star Jeff Hephner has boarded Abi Morgan's Benedict Cumberbatch-starring Netflix UK series Eric. Hephner will play Richard Castillo, a charismatic, affluent politician who works for the Mayor's Advisory Council on Motion Pictures and Television. He joins a cast featuring…

Benedict Cumberbatch is to lead and EP Netflix’s Eric, playing a puppeteer whose son goes missing in 1980s Manhattan. Netflix has set cast on the Abi Morgan-penned show from Chernobyl producer Sister and the likes of Gaby Hoffman, McKinley Belcher III, Dan Fogler and Phoebe Nicholls will star…

On the day season three of Abi Morgan’s drama series The Split launches in the U.S. on BBC America, producer Sister has snapped up rights to the screenwriter’s autobiographical book This is Not a Pity Memoir. Morgan will not only adapt her memoir for TV, but will also direct and executive produce the project, along…

Netflix has announced five new scripted series that it has commissioned out of the UK, all of which will shoot in the country in 2022. On the list is Supacell, a superhero drama following a group of seemingly ordinary people from South London who unexpectedly develop super powers, with no connection between them aside…

Abi Morgan, the creator and writer behind BBC series The Split, is making her debut in the directing chair on Season 3 of the show. Below is a first look at the third season, on which Morgan is helming one of the five episodes; Dee Koppang O'Leary (Bridgerton) is lead director. Cast including Nicola Walker, Stephen…

Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, has acquired North American rights to This Is Not a Pity Memoir, the first book by award-winning screenwriter and playwright Abi Morgan. The book, part of collaboration with the publishing arm of Michael Sugar's Sugar23, is set to be published June 2022. "We've…

The BBC and AMC’s SundanceTV have renewed Sister relationship series The Split for a third and final season. Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay and Chukwudi Iwuji are all set to reprise their roles in the drama, which is set in the fast-paced, complex world of London's…

In a week where interest in Korean filmmaking has spiked following Parasite‘s rousing Oscars success, it has been announced that Abi Morgan’s BBC and Sundance TV drama The Split is being remade in the East Asian country. BBC Studios has brokered a deal with Korean subscription network JTBC to reimagine the divorce…

Abi Morgan, the Welsh writer whose credits include The Iron Lady, Shame and the Emmy-winning series The Hour, has revealed that she is fighting cancer. Morgan made the news public during an onstage Q&A following a London screening of the second season of BBC and SundanceTV series The Split. "I got cancer during this…

Creator Abi Morgan's The Split has been renewed for a second season on BBC One. Produced by Sister Pictures, the first six-episode season completed its UK run on Tuesday and began airing in the U.S. on SundanceTV last week. The female-led legal drama is set in the fast-paced world of London's divorce law circuit and…

Suffragette writer Abi Morgan says that a teenage hockey match was the inspiration behind BBC One and SundanceTV's drama The Split, which brings together high-profile divorces, an obsession with other peoples' relationships and a predominantly female cast and crew. Morgan, who previously created period drama The Hour…

Abi Morgan, the playwright and screenwriter whose big-screen credits include The Iron Lady, Shame and most recently Suffragette, has been set to adapt Tangerine, the upcoming Christine Mangan psychological thriller novel that Imperative Entertainment scored rights to in November 2016. Mangan’s debut novel, from…