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EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Mulville, the BAFTA-winning British producer who was a ferocious opponent of the BBC’s decision to sideline BBC Three, has applauded the broadcaster for its volte-face over the youth network. The Hat Trick Productions boss teamed up with Avalon co-executive chairman Jon Thoday in 2015 to launch an…

The BBC will today confirm that it is considering reversing a decision to make its youth network BBC Three an online-only service following the runaway success of shows like Fleabag and Normal People. The British broadcaster will set out its thinking on bringing BBC Three back to television in its annual plan — a…

The television adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People will be hitting screens in the U.S. and UK after Hulu and the BBC set premiere dates for the youth-skewing drama. Watch the new trailer below. Interestingly, the British public broadcaster will go first with the series with all 12 episodes airing on BBC Three…

The BBC has given serious consideration to the idea of moving BBC Three back to television four years after the youth network became an online-only service through BBC streaming service iPlayer. Deadline understands that BBC top brass have held talks about the possibility of reversing the controversial decision to…

The U.S. remake of People Just Do Nothing is not going to series at Amazon. The streamer piloted a version of the successful BBC Three comedy, which was produced by The Office producer Ash Atalla. However, Vernon Sanders, Co-Head, TV at Amazon Studios, told Deadline at the Winter TCA press tour that the project was…

The BBC has acquired the UK rights to Hulu's Aidy Bryant-fronted comedy series Shrill. The British public broadcaster will air the series, from Warner Bros. Television, on its youth-skewing network BBC Three. It is the latest Hulu series making its way to the BBC after the latter picked up Looking For Alaska. The BBC…

Showtime is to co-produce a second season of Daisy Haggard's comedy Back to Life with the BBC. The CBS-owned premium network has boarded the dark comedy as a co-production partner after acquiring the first season. The first season of the show, which is created and written by Daisy Haggard and Laura Solon, launched on…

The BBC’s online youth channel BBC Three has commissioned a second season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK before the first has finished airing. The drag queen battle will sashay its way back to Britain next year after whipping up more than 6.5M views for its first season on BBC streaming service iPlayer. The first season has…

The BBC is facing the very real threat of extinction unless it can urgently win back young viewers following the explosion in streaming services like Netflix and YouTube. That’s the eye-catching conclusion of an annual health check on the BBC’s output and operations by its regulator Ofcom, which published a 57-page…

BBC Three has picked up the UK rights to Hulu's forthcoming YA series Looking For Alaska. The eight-part show will debut day-and-date with Hulu, dropping online in the UK from 10am on October 19 – the day after its U.S. launch. All episodes will be available. The series is based on John Green's eponymous novel and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Phoebe Waller-Bridge comedy Fleabag enjoyed a massive post-Emmys bump – more than doubling demand in a raft of English-speaking markets including the U.S., UK, New Zealand and Canada. The data, from research firm Parrot Analytics, shows that demand for the British comedy, produced by All3Media-backed…

BBC Three has commissioned horror drama Red Rose from eOne and Sex Education producer Eleven Film. The eight-part series is being written by Michael and Paul Clarkson. The series follows a disparate group of teenagers, adrift in the long hot summer following GCSEs, hanging out on the Bolton moors with little sense of…