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EXCLUSIVE: Former 20th Television drama exec Albert Page has become President of Clickbait and The Capture producer Heyday Television U.S. Page is tasked with growing the Universal International Studios-backed indie’s scripted slate of high-end shows. Heyday EVP Jillian Share was previously heading up the U.S…

Heyday Television and Carnival Films owner NBCUniversal International Studios has rebranded to Universal International Studios. The UK-based studio has a new logo and is being aligned more closely with owner Universal Studio Group and sister studios UCP, Universal Television and Universal Television Alternative…

EXCLUSIVE: Liane Moriarty, the author behind HBO's Big Little Lies and Hulu's upcoming Nine Perfect Strangers, is set to have another of her books make it to the small screen. Heyday Television, a joint venture between Harry Potter and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood producer David Heyman and NBCUniversal International…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming on the heels of the success of HBO Max series The Flight Attendant, which drops its season finale this Thursday, series creator and EP Steve Yockey will be developing an hour-long drama for Heyday Television based on a short story by Ted Chiang. Set against the backdrop of technology that grants…

Heyday Television, the production company run by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Marriage Story producer David Heyman, has acquired the film and TV rights to Ashley Audrain’s debut novel The Push. Heyday triumphed in a nine-way bidding war for the Penguin Michael Joseph book, which is set to be published next year…

EXCLUSIVE: Heyday Television, the production company run by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Marriage Story producer David Heyman, is adapting Peter McLean's fantasy crime novel Priest of Bones for the small screen. The company has optioned the rights to the book, which was published in October 2018 by Ace Books and…

The BBC has commissioned a second season of Heyday Television and NBCUniversal International Studios’ spy drama The Capture. The surveillance thriller, which will premiere on NBCUniversal streamer Peacock in the U.S. on July 15, was a hit in the UK, becoming BBC iPlayer’s biggest new title of 2019. It has racked up…

EXCLUSIVE: Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood and Marriage Story producer David Heyman's Heyday Television is adapting Greg Howard's book Middle School's A Drag, You Better Werk! for television. Deadline understands that Heyday Television, which produces series including BBC One thriller The Capture, is working with its…

Drama projects from The Young Offenders writer Karen Cogan, Mum producer Big Talk, The Virtues producer Warp Films and NBCUniversal-backed Heyday Television lead the Brit List: TV 2019, the UK television equivalent of The Black List. The Brit List, overseen by Alexandra Arlango, has published its second television…

Netflix is teaming with The Slap and Glitch's Tony Ayres and super-producer David Heyman on thriller Clickbait. The eight-episode series is created by Ayres and is an NBCUniversal International Studios production. Shooting will take place in Melbourne. Ayres will also showrun and executive produce the character-based…

The BBC has unveiled the first look at British spy drama The Capture starring Strike's Holliday Grainger and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald's Callum Turner. The six-part series, which is produced by Heyday Television and NBCUniversal International Studios, will air later this year. It begins when soldier…

NBC Universal-backed Heyday Television has hired DNA Films and TV's Tom Winchester as President. He will work closely with David Heyman, who runs the JV, and will lead the company's UK business. He was formerly Creative Director at DNA. Winchester is currently producing Shogun, a ten-part limited series for FX based…