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Killing Eve won best drama series at last year's BAFTA TV Awards but the Phoebe Waller-Bridge-created series seems to have had an even bigger impact on the event after organizers unveiled a formal rule change to allow U.S.-funded series to enter UK categories. Last year, the BBC America drama found its way to pick up…

The BBC has provided an insight into how many people are watching box sets of two of its most potent dramas. At a big event in London on Monday for some of the UK’s top television creatives, BBC director of content Charlotte Moore talked up the broadcaster’s streaming service iPlayer, which launched in 2007. Providing…

Endeavor Content has hired former Fox executive Prentiss Fraser and is moving its TV sales division from LA to London. Fraser left her UK-based role as EVP and managing director of content distribution for Fox Networks Group in April following the Disney takeover. She joins Endeavor, which is responsible for…

The 2019 Primetime Emmys on Sunday felt more like the BAFTAs as half of the awards were handed to Brits or Brit-produced shows. "This is getting ridiculous," said Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who was certainly the toast of Hollywood, picking up four awards for BBC/Amazon co-pro comedy Fleabag, while Killing Eve, which she…

Villanelle got the better of Eve Polastri as Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer nabbed the lead actress in a drama series award over her co-star Sandra Oh. Comer, who plays elegant and talented killer Villanelle, beat her co-star Oh, who plays Polastri, the British spy searching for Villanelle, in the BBC America drama. This…

BAFTA is to open its doors to the public for the first time with an exhibition that includes the costumes worn in BBC America drama Killing Eve. His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge, who is President of BAFTA, will open BAFTA Piccadilly on September 16 with public exhibition the BAFTA: Behind the Screens. The…

Harriet Walter (Succession, The Crown) and Danny Sapani (Harlots, The Crown) have joined the third season cast of BBC America’s Emmy-nominated Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, as production begins. Season 3 picks up following Season 2’s finale cliffhanger as Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) seemingly betrayed Eve…

Killing Eve is looking to avenge last year's Emmy disappointment after picking up nine nominations including a Best Drama Series nomination, while leads Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer will battle it out for Lead Actress. Last year, the BBC America thriller scored two nods for Oh and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's writing but was…

The second season of Killing Eve finally launched in the UK and it was worth the wait as the Phoebe Waller-Bridge created series scored 3.5M viewers on BBC One. It was the most-watched show across all channels on Saturday. The first episode peaked with an audience of 3.7M and scored a 21% audience share. The full…

Sally Woodward Gentle, who runs Killing Eve producer Sid Gentle Films, is a mischief maker with a hit on her hands. Her BBC America spy thriller is a ratings success story and she has a development drawer full of "quietly subversive" projects. Sitting down with Deadline to discuss how the Phoebe Waller-Bridge-penned…

It's a gloomy Monday afternoon in Westwood and Phoebe Waller-Bridge is wrapping up Deadline’s cover shoot. Fresh from the Fleabag stage in New York, in two weeks' time her brainchild Killing Eve will sweep the BAFTAs, but of course she doesn't know that yet. For now she's hard at work on a very famous, typically…

BBC America said today that Season 2 of its assassin drama Killing Eve delivered the highest season-over-season growth of any returning TV drama on U.S. television in the past three years. The thriller starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer wrapped its sophomore run last month up 87 percent in total viewers and 78 percent…