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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…

Michael Caine said Friday on a BBC podcast that his newest film, Best Sellers, may be his last part, citing the pandemic, a lingering back issue and the lack of projects for “a leading man that’s 88.” But that’s not quite true, he clarified in a statement today. “Regarding retirement,” said the Oscar-winner, “I've…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has overhauled its guidelines for dealing with bullying and sexual harassment on set in light of "recent revelations" in the TV and film industries. Deadline has seen an email sent by BBC chief content officer Charlotte Moore to dozens of UK indies, which tasked producers on all new shows with…

BBC Studios has appointed chief finance officer Tom Fussell as CEO, more than one year after Tim Davie moved to become DG. Fussell has held the interim post since September 2020, overseeing the producer-distributor’s global strategy. He will lead on the development of ambitious expansion plans as Davie tasks BBC Studio…

BBC drama director Piers Wenger has stressed the "public interest" in the network's controversial Jimmy Savile project as he showcased eight upcoming shows that "don't fit into the convention of genre.” Featuring Steve Coogan in the lead role, ITV Studios' four-parter The Reckoning (working title) will air as the…

During Mipcom, Entertainment One (eOne) is launching global sales rights (excluding the UK) on BBC Two feature documentary Joni Mitchell: 50 Years of Blue. The music biopic looks at the iconic singer’s life and career, spotlighting the importance of the landmark album Blue, which celebrated its golden anniversary this…

BBC1’s long-running business format Dragons’ Den is to shift production from Manchester to Scotland. Producer BBC Studios’ factual entertainment team in Glasgow, which is run by former MasterChef and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares exec Adeline Ramage Rooney, will hire a number of editorial and production management…

Succession writer Lucy Prebble and His Dark Materials’ Jack Thorne have slammed the UK government’s plan to force Public Service Broadcasters to produce ‘distinctive British content’, with Prebble calling it “an empty gesture to a fictional audience”. Speaking alongside Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight at today’s…

Sir David Attenborough’s latest BBC natural history landmark The Green Planet has sold to networks worldwide ahead of next week’s Mipcom. Producer-distributor BBC Studios revealed a raft of pre-sales today to more than a dozen territories, including Channel Nine in Australia, TVNZ in New Zealand, Radio-Canada and BBC…

The BBC and NBCUniversal (NBCU) have partnered on a double season adaptation of Dutch psychological adventure format The Traitors.  All3Media-backed Gogglebox producer Studio Lambert’s newly opened Scottish office is behind the two-series order, which will air in both the UK and US, including on NBCU streamer…

NBCUniversal and the BBC are searching for the next wave of unscripted after striking a transatlantic partnership. The U.S. media group, which operates broadcast network NBC, a slew of cable networks and streamer Peacock, and the British public broadcaster have teamed up to find unscripted shows that can work both in…

Tim Davie, the BBC's Director-General, has said the broadcaster needs "a really serious dialogue with government" in the context of Nadine Dorries replacing Oliver Dowden as the UK's new Culture Secretary. Dorries has been an outspoken critic of the BBC in the past. In 2018 she tweeted that the broadcaster was "a…