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EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal is returning to the UK television production investment scene as it finalizes a deal with an outfit co-founded by a Vigil and Downton Abbey director. The French production group will back Strong Film & Television, which was co-founded by BAFTA-winner James Strong and Matt…

Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery is to lead Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s personal drama This Town for the BBC. Knight’s six-parter is rolling the cameras in Birmingham and has cast a string of other British actors including Nicholas Pinnock (Marcella) and David Dawson (My…

A comedy-drama series from Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films about an ambitious young model tops this year's Brit List of the best unproduced TV and film scripts. Issy Knowles' Model Behaviour has landed seven recommendations to put it two ahead of the second-placed Hat Trick Mercurio series The H…

EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey star Jessica Brown Findlay is leading a podcast based on Joseph Conrad’s 1911 spy thriller Under Western Eyes. The Razumov Files, from True Spies producers Spyscape and Cup & Nuzzle, will approach events leading to the 1917 Russian Revolution from the perspective of a…

Peacock announced Downton Abbey: A New Era will make its streaming debut on June 24. The streamer also revealed the launch of a new 24/7 Downton Abbey channel for fans to catch up ahead of the second film’s release. All 6 seasons of the hit series, the first movie, and the one-hour special The Manners of Downton Abbey…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal International Studios’ SVP/Head of UK Creative Thomas Daley is leaving the company after two years, we've learned. The much-liked exec, who is also a film and theater director, has been with the international content arm of Universal Studios Group since July 2020. A Universal International Studios…

"Hollywood is the ultimate dream factory … and I need dreams as much as the next man," says Mr Molesley (Kevin Doyle) in Downton Abbey: A New Era. It's a line that sums up the mission of the TV series' second cinematic outing: to continue the "dream factory" tradition. And so the wishes of many a familiar character…

Dan Stevens decided not to sit down with John Dean, Republican lawyer in the Watergate era turned news pundit and circuit speaker, ahead of playing him in the Starz drama Gaslit. Stevens has told the British press that he was initially keen to sit down with Dean, who still polarises opinion for his role in the…

"I see nothing happening on a major scale to try to get the older audiences back to theaters," griped Sony Pictures Classics' co-president Tom Bernard. Ideally, Bernard wants NATO to trumpet cinema safety in a big public campaign. (A NATO rep says not in the cards.) He’d like that campaign alongside a creative…

Sharon Horgan & Michael Sheen To Lead Jack Thorne’s ‘Best Interests’ Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen are to lead the Jack Thorne-scripted BBC One drama Best Interests. The duo will play married couple Nicci and Andrew who have two daughters: Katie (Alison Oliver) and Marnie (Niamh Moriarty). Marnie has a…

Dalton Mills, a large former textile mill in West Yorkshire that as a filming location hosted series including Downton Abbey and the first season of Peaky Blinders, caught fire Thursday, requiring more than 100 firefighters to get the blaze under control. Officials said there were no injuries in the fire, which…

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking to Carnival Films executive chairman Gareth Neame, the producer behind the global British hit franchise Downton Abbey. The company, which…