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EXCLUSIVE: A Black Lady Sketch Show head writer Lauren Ashley Smith is set to write and exec produce the U.S. remake of British comedy Timewasters, which is in the works at ABC. The single-camera comedy comes from CBS Studios. ABC is developing the remake of ITV2’s time-traveling jazz comedy as part of its…

Big Talk Productions CEO Kenton Allen is typically straight when reflecting on 2020. “A disaster,” he says, surveying the economic wreckage of Covid-19 over a Zoom call from his home in London last month. Like countless others, the pandemic has blown a huge hole in Big Talk’s earnings and created unthinkable headaches…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC One and Amazon’s Stephen Merchant series The Offenders has been renewed for a second season before the first has even been shot, executive producer Kenton Allen has revealed. In an interview with Deadline, the Big Talk Productions CEO said that the two seasons are being filmed back-to-back in Bristol…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development We The Jury, a half-hour single camera comedy, from 9JKL co-creator Dana Klein, writer Stephanie Darrow, UK producer Big Talk Productions and CBS Television Studios. Written by Klein and Darrow, in We The Jury, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a…

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…