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Australian Thriller Gets North America Deal EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired rights to Australian indie feature film Rage for VOD release in North America and a Vimeo On Demand release in Australia from February 23rd, 2021. Matt Theo (Night Shift), Hayley Beveridge (Dead Moon Circus) and Richard Norton (Mad Ma…

Fremantle Backs Diversity Leadership Scheme Fremantle has teamed with The TV Collective, Indigo Talent, and former ITV Studios executive Remy Blumenfeld to launch a scheme that will work with 50 middle-to-senior BAME professionals to help them break into industry leadership roles. Under the Breakthrough Leaders…

UK media regulator Ofcom has warned that the British government urgently needs to overhaul broadcasting laws if public service broadcasters, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5, are to survive in the age of streaming. Ofcom published early findings from its landmark review of public service broadcasting today…

ViacomCBS’s UK broadcaster Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece have confirmed that period veterinary drama All Creatures Great And Small will return for a second six-part season. Deadline reported last month that the renewal was all-but done, with Playground Entertainment ready to begin shooting Season 2 in the Yorkshire…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one: British model and Queen & Slim actress Jodie Turner-Smith is to play Anne Boleyn in a convention-defying Channel 5 drama made by the Sony-backed Stan & Ollie producer Fable Pictures. Deadline can reveal that the ViacomCBS-owned broadcaster has commissioned a three-part series that will…

EXCLUSIVE: Grantchester actor Robson Green is to front a series for ViacomCBS’s UK broadcaster Channel 5 in which he explores the length of Roman Empire ruin, Hadrian's Wall. The Scottish arm of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings producer Firecracker Films is producing the three-part series, which has the title Walking Hadrian's W…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC streamer Acorn TV and ViacomCBS’s UK network Channel 5 are to further cement their forays into original drama by co-producing an adaptation of P.D. James’ best-selling Inspector Dalgliesh Mysteries crime novels. Catherine The Great and Cobra producer New Pictures secured the rights to the novels and…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 5’s profit has dropped more than 30% after ViacomCBS’s restructure of its UK channel brands resulted in a £19.8M ($25.6M) programming write-down. The British broadcaster’s operating profit fell to £27.4M in the 15 months to the end of December last year, compared with £39.9M in 2018, according to…

Channel 5 Plans Feature-Length Princess Diana Film ViacomCBS-owned Channel 5 has commissioned a documentary that will tell the inside story of Princess Diana’s explosive BBC Panorama interview in 1995, during which she was candid about her faltering relationship with Prince Charles. Diana: The Interview That Shocked Th…

A new three-year deal between the National Football League (NFL) and ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI) will see the UK’s Channel 5 air Monday Night Football on free-to-air this season. The channel will also carry a new Sunday morning magazine program. MNF will be broadcast live from Channel 5's studio in LA…

British drama All Creatures Great and Small has become a ratings boon for Viacom's UK network Channel 5 – becoming its highest rated show since February 2016. This comes as the show, produced by Playground Entertainment, has already been picked up for a second season. It scored 3.3M viewers, a share of 20.4%, which…

British drama All Creatures Great and Small is on the verge of a second season after exec producer Colin Callender revealed that he was in talks with UK network Channel 5 and PBS. This comes after Ben Frow, who runs content at the ViacomCBS-owned UK broadcaster said last year that he wanted to commission a second…