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BBC Two has commissioned a second series of Big Talk Productions’ legal comedy Defending The Guilty. Will Sharpe (Giri/Haji, Flowers) will return as idealistic rookie barrister Will Packham, who is learning his trade from Humans star Katherine Parkinson’s Caroline, a cynical, worldly-wise pupilmaster. Mark Bonnar (Cata…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Rudin is developing a U.S. adaptation of British comedy Mum with UK producer Big Talk Productions. August: Osage County and Killer Joe writer Tracy Letts is writing the remake. Deadline understands that The Social Network and Moneyball producer won a bidding war for the rights to the Lesley…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue and Rev and Friday Night Dinner producer Big Talk Productions have teamed up to produce an immigration comedy for Sky. I understand that the two companies are working on Detained, written by Zak Shaikh, and the series in currently in the early stages of development at the…

Lionsgate has partnered with Big Talk Productions and Mischief Screen to bring a comedy stage play to BBC One. The British public broadcaster has commissioned The Goes Wrong Show, which is based on Mischief Theatre's eponymous play from the team behind Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which were…

EXCLUSIVE: Mamma Mia! and Preacher star Dominic Cooper is fronting a comedy for Sky from two of the team behind breakout British series People Just Do Nothing. Cooper is to star in and produce Peacock, a pilot for the pay-TV giant, from Big Talk Productions, the British company behind series including Friday Night Dinn…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Talk Productions has optioned television rights to Katerina Diamond's bestselling thriller novels that feature lead characters DS Imogen Grey and DS Adrian Miles. The plan is to craft a multi-part, returnable series. The books are set in Devon. In the first, The Teacher, Exeter suffers a rising count of…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Talk Productions and Mr. Mudd have teamed to option My Husband’s Wife, the bestseller by Blood Sisters author Jane Corry. The partners plan to adapt the domestic thriller as a TV series. Published by Penguin UK and Penguin USA, My Husband’s Wife is a female driven story about love, marriage and murder…

The Crown's Anna Chancellor and Black Mirror's Daniel Rigby have joined the second season of British comedy Timewasters after ITV2 recommissioned the series. Chancellor, who played Lady Rosse in the Netflix royal drama and also recently starred in Trust, and Rigby, who starred in Black Mirror episode The Waldo Moment…

Nira Park, producer of Baby Driver and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Cornetto trilogy, is to leave Big Talk Productions, the film and TV firm she founded. Park, who has had a long-standing producer relationship with Edgar Wright and also produced Sacha Baron Cohen's Grimsby, founded the company in 1995. She produced…

EXCLUSIVE: London-based Big Talk Productions has optioned the best-selling Lockwood & Co series with plans to adapt the books for television. The supernatural adventure stories are written by Jonathan Stroud, and the deal comes as the fifth and final installment, The Empty Grave, is to be published this week by…

EXCLUSIVE: Heather Graham, Stephen Mangan and Jo Hartley have been set to star in Bliss. The double-life comedy series for Sky Atlantic hails from Arrested Development alum David Cross who will write and direct. A co-production of Merman and Big Talk, in association with Cross' Liberal Jew-Run Media Productions, the…

EXCLUSIVE: UK-based Big Talk Productions is embarking on event drama series SAS: The Originals, based on Gordon Stevens' 2006 book, The Originals: The Secret History Of The Birth Of The SAS. James Wood, creator of the BAFTA-winning Rev, and Rupert Walters (Spooks) are teaming to pen the true story of the genesis of…