EXCLUSIVE: Slim Film + Television has halted production on David Tennant drama Around the World In 80 Days as the coronavirus crisis continues to hit British-made scripted series.
The production company, run by former Kudos boss Simon Crawford Collins, has suspended shooting on the eight-part show for a month, and…
Dominic Cooke, the film and theater director whose projects include recent Sundance premiere Ironbark, is re-teaming with former Royal Court exec Kate Horton to launch Fictionhouse, a banner for producing film, theater and TV.
The company's debut project will be Good, C. P. Taylor's stage play that will star David Tenn…
AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has acquired the North American rights to Channel 4’s David Tennant drama Deadwater Fell from Endemol Shine International.
Acorn will premiere the four-part drama — which is made by Tin Star producer Kudos — in April this year, general manager Matthew Graham announced at the winter…
At the BBC’s Christmas drinks earlier this month, I gatecrashed an animated conversation between two senior figures from the UK production sector. After a sheepish glance at each other, they revealed that the subject of their discussion was a certain Ian Katz, the director of programs at Channel 4. They are far from…
EXCLUSIVE: David Tennant is to play explorer Phileas Fogg in an adaptation of Jules Verne's classic Around the World in 80 Days.
The Doctor Who and Broadchurch star is fronting the eight-part drama, which is produced by Slim Film + Television.
Following an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, played by…
ITV has offered a first look at David Tennant as Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in its newly-announced miniseries Des.
The drama from Catherine The Great producer New Pictures was unveiled on Friday and ITV quickly followed up by releasing an image of Tennant as the man who murdered at least 15 men and boys…
Good Omens star David Tennant is to play infamous Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in an ITV drama from the makers of Sky and HBO’s Catherine The Great.
New Pictures’ three-part miniseries, Des, is based on the Brian Masters book Killing For Company, in which the author cooperated with Nilsen to get inside the…
BritBox president Soumya Sriraman has said she is relaxed about the arrival of Apple to the streaming wars.
Speaking at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam on Friday, Sriraman said she is not worried about being undercut by Apple TV+ when it launches on November 1.
Apple TV+ will be keenly priced at…
Netflix has set the premiere date for its police interrogation drama Criminal. The series, which stars For Life'sNicholas Pinnock, Doctor Who's David Tennant and Agent Carter's Hayley Atwell, will launch on September 20.
The SVOD service has also unveiled the first images for the format bending series.
Criminal…
Nicholas Pinnock, star of ABC's forthcoming legal drama For Life, Doctor Who'sDavid Tennant and Agent Carter'sHayley Atwell are to star in Netflix's police interrogation drama Criminal.
The format bending series consists of 12 episodes of 45 minutes with three episodes each set across four countries – France, Spain…
The Good Fight'sCush Jumbo and Good Omens'David Tennant are to star in Channel 4 crime drama Deadwater Fell (w/t).
The pair are leading the cast of the Kudos-produced four-part series alongside Patrick Melrose and The Crown star Anna Madeley and The Terror's Matthew McNulty.
The series is as much of an exploration…
In Neil Gaiman’s new Amazon series Good Omens the end of the world is fast approaching and the forces of good and evil set out to find the Anti-Christ to stop Armageddon from happening. Good comes in the form of the charming angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the snide demon Crowley (David Tennant). The unlikely…
