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Paramount+'s latest UK slate is headlined by a dark drama from The Bridge and Marcella creator Hans Rosenfeldt, with new unscripted shows including a reality series about LA hairdressers and true crime doc about a notorious hoax caller.  Leading a six-strong order is Rosenfeldt’s drama The Burning Girls, a six-part…

EXCLUSIVE: Leonard Cohen's relationship with muse Marianne Ihlen is going under the microscope in a 1960s-set drama co-production for Norwegian broadcaster NRK. The UK's Buccaneer Media (Marcella, Crime) and Dag and Lilyhammer writer Øystein Karlsen's Oslo-based Redpoint Productions are co-producing So Long, Marianne…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Carlyle is to reprise his role as the notorious Francis Begbie in a TV version of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting sequel The Blade Artist. More than 25 years on from his star turn in the Danny Boyle film, Carlyle will exec produce and feature as a reformed Begbie in the six-parter, which is being…

EXCLUSIVE: Tom MacRae, the creator of the Everybody's Talking About Jamie musical and upcoming feature, and Marcella producer Buccaneer Media have joined Nevision’s adaptation of MG Leonard's Beetle Boy children's books. MacRae is scripting the live-action/CGI returnable series, with Buccaneer co-producing…

EXCLUSIVE: You wait years for one bus, and then two come along at the same time. That’s the phrase Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh used when reflecting on how two of his first-ever TV projects got unveiled within the same week. That the announcements collided was sheer coincidence, he says, but a happy one for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine a world where humans lose the capacity to store long-term recollections and instead are issued a government memory chip. This is the world of In Memoriam, a new drama in development at HBO Max. The series comes from rising British playwright Charley Miles and Mr Robot director Niels Arden…

"I hope James Mattis sees this film," says Michael Epstein, director of House Two, a feature doc about the Haditha massacre and the subsequent criminal investigation, which was the most expensive in Marine history. "I hope he realizes truly how fucked up it is and goes in and fixes it. Now as Secretary of Defense…

EXCLUSIVE: Marcella producer Buccaneer Media and Baltasar Kormakur's RVK Studios have pacted to co-produce The Reykjavik Confessions. An English-language dramatization of one of Iceland's most mysterious murder investigations, it has John Brownlow (The Miniaturist, Fleming) attached to write. The story is based on the…

Tony Wood’s London-based Buccaneer Media is teaming with Irvine Welsh on the adaptation of the Scottish novelist’s Crime. This will be the first time that Welsh adapts one of his own books for television. Dougray Scott is attached to star in and exec produce the six-part drama. Buccaneer, maker of ITV and Netflix…