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Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone’s Chernobyl producer Sister has partnered with the Royal Court Theatre to seek the next generation of TV and theater scribes. The three-year partnership “acknowledges the interconnectedness of UK TV and theater,” said Sister, and has been “formed to discover…

EXCLUSIVE: Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider’s Chernobyl producer Sister has posted a near-$20M loss due to continued disruption caused by the Covid pandemic and expansion investment, with CFO Chris Fry stating that the transatlantic indie has “laid the foundations for future…

EXCLUSIVE: Sister, the media co-venture owned by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider, and Jane Featherstone, has posted a loss of $7.7M in its first 18 months of trading, during which it expanded its investment empire and was hit by the coronavirus production shutdown. The producer behind Emmy-winning Chernobyl and…

Molly Stern, the former Crown publisher whose successes include the Michelle Obama memoir Becoming, Gone Girl and others, has launched a new publishing imprint. Zando will be backed by Sister, the studio launched in 2019 by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone. Zando will collaborate with influential…

Sister, the global production and development company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has hired veteran TV executive Kate Fenske as Chief Creative Executive. Fenske, most recently President of Production for Entertainment 360, marks Sister’s first major hire out of Los Angeles where…

Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone have joined forces to form Sister, an ambitious content creation venture designed to develop and produce television and film projects with global appeal. Murdoch, the former Shine Group founder/chairman, will be the lead financier in the venture. She said Snider…

Johan Renck felt the call of Chernobyl grow stronger as he charged through more of Craig Mazin's scripts for the five-part limited series. But, ever an apprehensive man, his initial reaction was caveated. "I love this, but I'm not going to do it," he told himself. The problem? He'd just brought his family home after…

Disaster drama Chernobyl swept up 19 Emmy nominations including a nod in the limited series category, making it the third most nominated show after Game of Thrones and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. The drama, which is a co-production between HBO and Sky Atlantic, is up against Escape At Dannemora, Fosse/Verdon, Sharp Objec…

Jane Featherstone, exec producer of HBO's Chernobyl, has lifted the lid on producing the "vast" and "compelling" period drama and how the series fits into her rapidly growing Sister Pictures. The Broadchurch and Humans producer had only just recently set up her own indie when she received a call from Kary Antholis…

Broadchurch producer Jane Featherstone is teaming with The Handmaid's Tale's Reed Morano for a global thriller based on Naomi Alderman's book The Power for Amazon. Featherstone's Sister Pictures is making 10-part series The Power for the streaming service after optioning the book in 2016. The show was unveiled…

Jane Featherstone, producer of ITV’s mystery thriller Broadchurch and Channel 4 and AMC’s sci-fi drama Humans, warned that global streaming services including Netflix and Amazon are set to "turn off" the international co-production tap during the next 18 months. Sister Pictures founder Featherstone, while giving the…

Former Kudos chief exec and co-chairman of Shine UK Jane Featherstone is launching her new banner Sister Pictures with a slate that includes a new project from Brit writer Abi Morgan. Featherstone, one of the UK’s most respected TV execs, has credits that include Spooks, Humans, River and Broadchurch. She was also…