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Netflix has unveiled first-look images of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s budding romance in The Crown Season 6. The pair are played by newcomers Ed McVey and Meg Bellamy in the final season of the streamer’s royal drama. Filming of these scenes took place earlier this year. As The Crown…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has greenlit a UK original drama series based on Sarah Pinborough’s sleep deprivation thriller novel Insomnia. The adaptation will be produced by Left Bank Pictures, the UK production company that reimagined Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes for Netflix in 2021. Pinborough will…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has quietly taken full control of The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures in a deal worth £5.5M ($6.6M). Sony has acquired the 5.32% of Left Bank it did not own, valuing the production house at £103M ($124M) around 15 years after it first launched in the UK. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary British actor Stephen Fry has boarded Netflix’s The F**k it Bucket from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, joining a clutch of highly-rated newcomers including lead Sophie Wilde (You Don’t Know Me) and Boiling Point’s Lauryn Ajufo. Fry will play the role of Mia Polanco (Wilde)’s doctor, Dr…

EXCLUSIVE: The Crown duo Left Bank Pictures and Netflix have set Little Voice, The Gifted and Reign star Sean Teale as male lead in their new Spain-set series Palomino (working title, which will likely change). Teale joins lead Evin Ahmad in the eight-part thriller series set in the suburbs of Barcelona. Filming is…

EOne has signed The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures exec Sharon Hughff as Creative Director, Scripted Television in the UK. Reporting into Global Scripted Television President Pancho Mansfield, Hughff will oversee eOne’s scripted team and pipeline in the nation, spearheading efforts to expand the slate to Europe and…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set female-led action adventure series Palomino from Sony-backed The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, with filming set to get underway later this year in Barcelona. Sky’s Strike Back: Vendetta exec/writing duo Rob Bullock and Jack Lothian are to combine again on the project, with Lothian also…

The Crown has found its next prime minister. Trainspotting and Elementary actor Jonny Lee Miller has signed up to play John Major in Season 5 of Netflix’s lavish royal drama, following in the footsteps of Gillian Anderson, who scooped a Golden Globe for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in Season 4. As first…

Left Bank Pictures, the Sony-owned producer behind The Crown, has defended its handling of a sexual assault complaint against former producer Chris Croucher. Croucher, who was employed by Left Bank as an executive producer after working on shows like Downton Abbey, pled guilty to sexual assault and common assault last…

A Netflix representative for The Crown has denied a report that the lavish royal drama is struggling to cast an actor to play Prince Andrew in the final two seasons. British tabloid The Sun claimed that producers at Left Bank Pictures have advertised for the role on casting website Spotlight. “Stars aren't exactly…

Penny Dreadful and Sin City actor Josh Hartnett is to lead Sky’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ financial thriller The Fear Index, which is housed at The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures. Deadline first revealed last year that The Fear Index was set up at Sky, and Hartnett will play Dr. Alex Hoffmann, an American…

EXCLUSIVE: Left Bank Pictures, the Sony Pictures Television-owned production company behind The Crown, has sounded a warning about the continued uncertainty of producing during the pandemic in its most-recent earnings, which showed that revenue rocketed to another record high. According to Left Bank’s annual report…