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The Shelby family is hanging it up, to a degree. BAFTA-winning period gangster saga Peaky Blinders is due to conclude after the upcoming sixth season, which has begun filming, producers said today. The news that Season 6 will be the last for the Birmingham clan is likely to be met with dismay by the rabid global…

BBC One’s Little Mix The Search has become the latest entertainment show to grind to a halt in the UK after an outbreak of coronavirus. The show, fronted by girl group Little Mix and made by ModestTV, has postponed this weekend’s episode after a “small number” of crew members tested positive for Covid-19. It will…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC One is to continue its theme of getting sports stars to confront their personal demons in a new documentary fronted by former England football player Ian Wright. Deadline understands that the Match Of The Day pundit and former Arsenal soccer star has teamed up with David Harewood: Psychosis And Me…

Staged, the lockdown comedy series written and directed by Simon Evans which debuts on BBC One on Wednesday, has been boarded by the newly-launched Rainmaker Content for international distribution. David Tennant and Michael Sheen lead the cast of the six-episode show, which chronicles the cast of a play as they try to…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC One has set the premiere date for Dancing Ledge Productions’ anticipated three-part miniseries, The Salisbury Poisonings. A dramatization of the 2018 Novichok poisonings that rocked the eponymous city and made global headlines, it will air from June 14-16 at 9PM locally. Rafe Spall, Anne-Marie Duff and…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC One’s Danny Dyer-fronted game show The Wall is set to be filmed in the UK instead of Poland, as a growing number of British producers look to switch to domestic production to keep shows on track during the coronavirus crisis. Deadline understands that Endemol Shine Group producer Remarkable Television…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has acquired The Nest, BBC One’s relationship thriller from Studio Lambert. The drama, starring Line Of Duty‘s Martin Compston and Peaky Blinders‘ Sophie Rundle, will be made available to Acorn’s 1M subscribers in the U.S. and Canada on July 13. All3Media International has…

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is reteaming with his Taboo and A Christmas Carol collaborators on a new adaptation of Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations. Knight will write and executive produce the six-part BBC One/FX limited series that is also exec produced by Ridley Scott, Tom Hardy, Dean Baker, David…

Following suit with some other popular UK programming, the BBC has suspended filming on long-running primetime soap EastEnders amid the escalating coronavirus crisis. Production on the series is still ongoing as far as what can be done remotely, like scriptwriting. Said a BBC spokesperson, "In light of the spread of…

The BBC is searching for the UK's top dog stylist in Pooch Perfect in its latest entertainment format – a version of which is on air in Australia fronted by Rebel Wilson. The British public broadcaster has tapped Cleaning Up and The Moorside star Sheridan Smith to front the series for BBC One. The eight-part primetime…

Game Of Thrones star Ian McElhinney and Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time star Steve Toussaint are to guest star in the two-part season finale of Doctor Who. The pair star in the two episodes, which see Jodie Whittaker's Doctor come face-to-face again with one of her most dangerous and relentless enemies: The…

The BBC and BritBox North America are bringing back Kay Mellor's lottery drama The Syndicate, which was briefly remade by ABC, five years after its last season. The British public broadcaster and the U.S. streamer have ordered a fourth season, set between Leeds and Las Vegas, of the drama, whose third season aired in…