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EXCLUSIVE: Vertigo Films is partnering with its 'Britannia' team Tom Butterworth and David Morrissey for The Dirty Squad, a new original drama series on based on the first exposé of corruption within the London Metropolitan Police. The news comes fresh after Deadline revealed that Sky had canceled epic fan…

EXCLUSIVE: Britannia will leave its army of fans on a cliffhanger finale after Sky decided not to renew the epic fantasy historical drama for Season 4. Produced by UK companies Neal Street Productions and Vertigo Films, Britannia has been canceled despite building a loyal and engaged fan…

Federation Entertainment has hit the M&A trail once again by taking a majority stake in Britannia, Bronson and Bulletproof producer Vertigo Films, its first British acquisition. The French Bureau and Around the World in 80 Days powerhouse has had a highly acquisitive year and the move comes almost exactly 12 months…

EXCLUSIVE: Bulletproof co-creator and The Football Factory director Nick Love has set his sights on his latest crime caper — a gangster series for Sky that has echoes of his 2005 Danny Dyer film The Business. Deadline hears that Love is returning to the world of the 1980s crime wave in Spain’s Costa del Sol for the…

EXCLUSIVE: You've Been Trumped, the 2011 documentary chronicling Donald Trump's disruptive efforts to build a golf course in the middle of a treasured Scottish nature reserve, has been optioned for a TV series dramatization by Bulletproof and Britannia outfit Vertigo Films. The show will retell how the Trump…

Comcast-backed Sky Studios has revealed that it is collaborating with producers to rework major drama series in the event that the UK heads back into another Covid-induced lockdown. Deadline reported last week that series including Sky/Epix co-production Britannia and A Discovery Of Witches, which is made in…

EXCLUSIVE: Comcast’s European pay-TV broadcaster Sky is aiming to get back into scripted production in a big way from August, with a number of its high-profile British shows under starters’ orders to get shooting again. After War Of The Worlds became the first UK drama series to go into production during the pandemic…

Epix is signed up to British fantasy drama Britannia. The MGM-owned cable network is coming on board as a co-production partner for season three of the Sky series. This comes after Deadline revealed earlier this year that British pay-TV broadcaster Sky had renewed the show for a third season but Amazon, which was…

Comcast’s European pay-TV broadcaster Sky has decided to pause all UK drama productions that involve international filming until spring 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking during live Q&A on YouTube, organized by the Edinburgh TV Festival, Sky’s director of drama Cameron Roach said productions are being…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has shut down filming on Season 3 of Britannia — making it the Comcast-owned pay-TV outfit’s first major production casualty of the coronavirus chaos. The historical drama produced by Neal Street Productions and Vertigo Films will take a break for an unspecified period of time as Sky prioritizes the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has renewed epic fantasy drama Britannia for a third season. The third season of the big-budget historical drama, which was written by playwright Jez Butterworth, is set to shoot later this year. It stars David Morrissey, Mackenzie Crook, Annabel Scholey and Eleanor Worthington-Cox and was created by…

High-end TV productions are spending a record amount in the UK, according to new figures released by the BFI. In the first half of 2018, a hefty 48 high-end programs — these are tax incentive-qualifying shows with budgets of £1M+ per episode — started principal photography with a local spend of £486M ($640M), the…