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Ita O’Brien, the pioneering Intimacy Coordinator who has worked on the likes of Normal People, I May Destroy You and Sex Education, has founded what is being called the “world’s first degree in intimacy practice.” O’Brien’s Intimacy on Set outfit has joined with the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts…

EXCLUSIVE: Antonia Thomas, former fan favorite on The Good Doctor, and Red Oaks’ Craig Roberts are leading an Apple TV+ British comedy series about insomniacs from I May Destroy You producer Various Artists Limited. Still Up follows the exploits of Lisa (Thomas), an impulsive and free-spirited…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is betting big on season two of Heyday Television’s deepfake spy thriller The Capture, promoting it to the coveted Bank Holiday weekend 9pm slot that in recent years has been occupied by Bodyguard, Peaky Blinders and Vigil. Deadline can exclusively reveal the scheduling for this year’s August Bank…

In recent years, the global TV landscape has been shaken up by some of the most talented, British female auteurs to have graced this planet. The likes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Michaela Coel have wowed audiences around the world, lending new credence to the term "authenticity" and forging disruptive shows that have…

‘I May Destroy You’ Producer Various Artists Behind BBC Hen Do Comedy I May Destroy You producer Various Artists Limited has been greenlit for a BBC Two comedy about a hen weekend that goes wrong. Henpocalypse!, from Hullraisers creator Caroline Moran, takes five women who headed out on a weekend of a lifetime to…

I May Destroy You and Sally4Ever producer Various Artists Limited (VAL) has hired Channel 4 Commissioning Editor Jack Bayles as its Head of Comedy. Bayles will take up the role from August and will be based in London and Brighton. He’ll be responsible for overseeing VAL's comedy slate and developing new projects. VAL…

One of the UK’s leading drama schools has apologized to I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel and star Paapa Essiedu for “appalling and unacceptable racist comments” 10 years ago. Essiedu told The Guardian he experienced a “real ‘time stops moment'” when a teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama taking…

Leading actors from It’s a Sin, Sex Education and Ben Wheatley horror In the Earth have been named on BAFTA’s latest Breakthrough cohort, supported by Netflix. A jury comprised of the likes of Jerk creator Tim Renkow and Virtues star Niamh Algar unveiled the 36 young hopefuls from the UK and U.S. this afternoon…

FX's groundbreaking Pose — about an LGBTQ clique navigating AIDS, bigotry and drag-ball culture in '80s and then '90s New York — earned its third consecutive Best TV Drama win at GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics' Dorians TV Awards for its third and final season. The show’s Mj Rodriguez, who last…

For HBO Max's I May Destroy You, costume designer Lynsey Moore had two main objectives: make it real and make it vintage. The series follows Arabella (Michaela Coel), an influencer and writer on a deadline to finish her second book, as she deals with the aftermath of being drugged and raped. Arabella experiments with…

When I May Destroy You‘s Creator, EP, director and star Michaela Coel first began taking notes about her own experience of sexual assault, she didn’t realize she was creating the series in which she would ultimately star as a version of herself. She plays Arabella, a young London-based writer trying to find a way…

Michaela Coel’s blistering HBO and BBC series I May Destroy You has proved to be a hit with Television Academy voters, picking up nine Emmy Awards nominations. The sexual assault survivor series, produced by Various Artists Limited and Coel’s FALKNA, has notched up recognition in major categories including best…