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Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio and his HTM Television partner, Episodes and Flack producer Jimmy Mulville, have struck a first-look deal with 20th Television. It comes as the pair, who produce series such as BBC drama Bloodlands and ITV drama Trigger Point via HTM, are looking to expand into the U.S. Deadline revealed…

EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Mulville, the BAFTA-winning British producer who was a ferocious opponent of the BBC’s decision to sideline BBC Three, has applauded the broadcaster for its volte-face over the youth network. The Hat Trick Productions boss teamed up with Avalon co-executive chairman Jon Thoday in 2015 to launch an…

James Nesbitt has been cast as the lead in new BBC One detective drama Bloodlands, which represents the first commission for Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio’s production company. Dubbed an “Irish noir,” Nesbitt will play Northern Irish police detective Tom Brannick who connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case…

Hat Trick Productions, the UK production company behind Showtime's Matt LeBlanc-fronted comedy Episodes and forthcoming Anna Paquin-fronted drama Flack, is eyeing a sale after appointing advisers Stella EOC. Founder Jimmy Mulville, who set up the company in 1986 with Denise O’Donoghue and Rory McGrath, has appointed…