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EXCLUSIVE: Jack Thorne has said the British TV and film industry could be a “world leader” on disability if “radical thinking” is implemented, while the Help writer has raised concerns over the death of social realist drama. Ahead of the unveiling of a landmark report into disability in TV compiled by his Underlying…

Bo Burnham’s Inside for Netflix and Jack Thorne’s Channel 4 drama Help took home the Comedy and Drama gongs at last night’s 60th Rose d’Or TV awards. UK shows performed well at the European Broadcasting Union event, which also saw long-running BBC1 entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing take home Studio…

UK ratings body BARB has revealed a “once in a generation” upgrade that can show how many people are watching the biggest shows on SVoD platforms. A preview unveiled this morning showed that the seventh episode of Netflix’s Squid Game was watched by 5.8M people last month, ranking the South Korean mega hit 10th in the…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) is seeking a Head of Development, with incumbent Gavin Boyland moving to series-produce an unannounced major landmark brand that he has developed for the division. A job advert was issued earlier this week for one of the most senior roles within the NHU, overseeing…

EXCLUSIVE: Pennywise: The Story of IT distributor Unannounced Films has taken on international sales of Annika producer Black Camel Pictures’ BBC young adult drama Float. Written by Scottish playwright Stef Smith, the BBC Scotland series dropped on BBC iPlayer in August, following Jade, a university dropout who finds…

Significant funding and job cuts, multiple crises and “persistent attacks from the press” have left BBC staff feeling “beleaguered,” according to BBC Chair Richard Sharp. Delivering a keynote at today’s Voice of the Listener & Viewer conference, Sharp also warned “there will be consequences” for program budgets if the…

UK culture secretary Nadine Dorries has signalled it could be some time until she has an answer on the privatization of Channel 4, as she says she is “only interested in how Channel 4 will survive in the future.” Dorries has just taken over from privatization-architects Oliver Dowden and John Whittingdale, both of whom…

David Attenborough will choose his favorite recordings from the natural world that have revolutionized our understanding of song as part of a packed BBC Christmas slate on which he features twice. The majority of shows on the slate, one of the BBC’s largest of the year, have already been announced, and The Wonder of So…

Here’s Fargo star Martin Freeman starring as a police officer in BBC1 upcoming The Responder, which was written by ex-police officer Tony Schumacher and produced by Salisbury Poisonings’ Dancing Ledge Productions. The five-parter follows Chris (Freeman), a crisis-stricken, morally compromised, unconventional urgent…

Royal Family Angered by BBC Princes Doc Members of the Royal Family are reported to be threatening to boycott the BBC over a documentary set to air tonight about Prince William and Prince Harry’s relationship with the press. According to the UK’s Daily Mail, the Royal Family has been angered by the BBC’s refusal to…

BUFF Awards Honor Menelik Shabazz Burning An Illusion filmmaker Menelik Shabazz will be posthumously handed the Honourary Award at this year’s 16th British Urban Film Festival (BUFF) Awards. Barbados-born Shabazz, who died in June, was a pioneer of Black British cinema, best known for 1981 feature Burning An Illusion…

EXCLUSIVE: Yomi Adegoke, the author and host of the Slay In Your Lane book and podcast series, has signed for CAA. The London-born commentator has become one of the leading voices on race, feminism and pop culture over the past few years and is pushing into TV, having created last year’s Channel 4 documentary Black Lov…