Black Panther star Letitia Wright and Star Wars‘ John Boyega will lead cast in Steve McQueen’s upcoming BBC TV drama Small Axe, about London’s West Indian community between the 1960s-80s. As we reported yesterday, Amazon has picked up U.S. rights. Production is now underway on location in London. Also starring are Mala…

Amazon has boarded the forthcoming BBC drama from 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen. The revelation emerged as Georgia Brown, Director of European Originals at the SVOD service, was speaking at the House of Lords' Communications Committee debate on the future of public service broadcasting in the UK. She also…

The BBC expects to co-produce "much less" with global SVOD services such as Netflix and Amazon in the future and is increasingly looking to partner with international free-to-air broadcasters. BBC Director General Tony Hall, speaking in the House of Lords Communications Committee, added that multi-million-dollar deals…

The BBC has unveiled the first look at British spy drama The Capture starring Strike's Holliday Grainger and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald's Callum Turner. The six-part series, which is produced by Heyday Television and NBCUniversal International Studios, will air later this year. It begins when soldier…

BBC America showcased its forthcoming wildlife tentpole series Seven Worlds, One Planet for the first-time at a Deadline-moderated session at Banff with the creative team and AMC Networks Entertainment President Sarah Barnett. Series Producer Scott Alexander and Producer Kiri Cashell lifted the lid on how they made…

The BBC has picked up a slew of feature docs including Oscar-nominated Minding The Gap and Sundance titles One Child Nation and Maiden. This comes as the British public broadcaster has revamped its feature doc strand Storyville with films launching on youth-skewing network BBC Three for the first time as it looks to…

China's CCTV has come on board David Attenborough's BBC natural history series Seven Worlds, One Planet. The Chinese public broadcaster is to co-produce the seven-part series, which airs later this year. It joins Chinese digital platform Tencent, which has previously been on board via its Tencent Penguin Pictures…

Ricky Gervais rejects the amphitheater of Netflix's London screening room—complete with cushions and throws branded with the name of its myriad shows—as the venue for our interview. Too cold. Too grand a room for two people talking. Instead, we set up in what can best be described as a gussied-up broom closet. There…

British broadcasters BBC and Channel 4 have revealed that the rise of SVOD services including Netflix and Amazon has lead to rising production and talent costs in the UK television sector. The rising cost of drama production has been laid out by both broadcasters in their submission to the House of Lords…

Facebook is planning on rolling out its own cryptocurrency by the first quarter of 2020, a digital payments system that will be active in roughly a dozen countries, the BBC…

HBO and BBC period drama Gentleman Jack has been handed a second season. Sally Wainwright's Suranne Jones-fronted series will return for another eight-part run. It comes as the Lookout Point-produce drama is still on the air. The series debuted on HBO on April 22 in its new Monday night slot and on the BBC on May 19…

Arya Stark of Winterfell is entering the RuPaul's Drag Race arena after Maisie Williams was unveiled as a celebrity guest judge of the UK adaptation of the reality series. The actor, who has starred in HBO's Game of Thrones since she was 13, will feature on the BBC Three adaptation of the U.S. competition format…