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EXCLUSIVE: Major industry bodies Equity, Time’s Up, and Jack Thorne’s Underlying Health Condition lobbying group have joined the Coalition for Change, the body seeking to improve working conditions in UK TV. The Coalition, which already has buy-in from broadcasters, big super-indies and producer trade body Pact…

A landmark disability report from Jack Thorne’s Underlying Health Condition lobbying group has urged the creation of two industry funds: one to upgrade studios and facilities and the other to help disabled freelancers. Today’s Everyone Forgot About The Toilets report into disability in UK TV also called for mandatory…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Thorne has said the British TV and film industry could be a “world leader” on disability if “radical thinking” is implemented, while the Help writer has raised concerns over the death of social realist drama. Ahead of the unveiling of a landmark report into disability in TV compiled by his Underlying…

Former BBC comedy bosses Shane Allen and Kate Daughton’s Boffola Pictures has landed its debut commission, a BBC comedy-thriller from This Country creator Daisy May Cooper and Deadwater Fell’s Selin Hizli,  exec produced by Jack Thorne. Cooper and Hizli will play the leads and are starring in the untitled six-part…

Acclaimed screenwriter Jack Thorne has slammed the industry for its treatment of disabled people both on and off screen, saying, “TV has failed disabled people. Utterly and totally.” Thorne used his invitation to give the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival to announce the creation of a…

UPDATE, with new start date The new, one-play version of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will begin performances four days earlier than previously announced, with the start now set for Friday, Nov. 12, at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre. No reason for the move was detailed in the announcement today. Previous, June 28 A new…

Jack Thorne, the prolific British writer behind His Dark Materials and Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, is to deliver the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival next month. Thorne, who has been diagnosed with a condition called cholinergic urticaria, which means he is allergic to…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one: Killing Eve star Jodie Comer and The Irishman actor Stephen Graham are on the brink of signing up for a Channel 4 drama that will be set in a UK care home during the coronavirus crisis, Deadline can reveal. The four-part series is housed at All3Media International-backed production outfit T…

The Comic-Con@Home panel for His Dark Materials did not waste any time to give the fans what they want. Before the panel even started, HBO dropped the first trailer for season 2 which included the first look at the mysterious city of Cittàgaze. The panel featured executive producers Jane Tranter and Jack Thorne, as…

His Dark Materials scribe Jack Thorne is teaming with actress-turned writer Genevieve Barr to create a BBC Two drama based on the true story of the campaign for disabled civil rights in Britain. The pair have written Independence Day? How Disabled Rights Were Won (working title), which will be co-produced by Thorne’s O…

Jack Thorne, the prolific British writer behind HBO and BBC drama His Dark Materials, has said that he is receiving treatment for what he believes to be coronavirus. The writer, whose other credits include Channel 4’s The Virtues and feature film The Aeronauts, said he has suffered from a high temperature, cough and…

EXCLUSIVE: His Dark Materials and The Eddy writer Jack Thorne has teamed up with Legendary Global on a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. Thorne will write and exec produce a "relevant" retelling of the book, which was first published in 1859, for the studio, which was established…