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Lookout Point, the BBC Studios-owned indie behind Gentleman Jack and The Ballad of Renegade Nell, has set its new management following the news Faith Penhale is moving to Pathé Productions. Laura Lankester and Will Johnston have been named Joint CEOs. They were both previously executive producers at…

Faith Penhale, decorated TV drama producer and CEO of Gentleman Jack indie Lookout Point, is leaving the BBC Studios-backed outfit to head up Pathe Productions, with Cameron McCracken stepping down to Head of Film. After 23 years with Pathe most recently as MD, respected vet McCracken will now…

Gentleman Jack producer Lookout Point and Expanded Media Productions are adapting Deon Meyer’s bestseller Devil’s Peak into a five-part series for M-Net. Set in Cape Town, the thriller is being adapted by Moon Knight writer Matthew Orton and follows talented but broken Detective Benny Griessel, who is tasked with…

BBC Studios has restructured to combine its Productions and Content Partnerships businesses, bringing its units under the same roof as the indies it owns including Lookout Point, Clerkenwell Films and House Productions. The move is intended to strengthen the outfit’s commercial offering around the world, coming five…

EXCLUSIVE: Gentleman Jack producer Lookout Point’s investment in Shane Allen and Kate Daughton’s Boffola Pictures technically valued the new comedy indie at £4M ($5.4M), Deadline can reveal, while Lookout posted a £3.2M ($4.3M) loss for the Covid-impacted 2020/21 financial year. Lookout’s full year accounts, which…

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…

Mira Nair’s adaptation of Vikram Seth's best-selling novel A Suitable Boy is creating a storm for Netflix in India after the British-made series depicted a Hindu girl kissing a Muslim boy against the backdrop of a Hindu temple. Netflix acquired the series in July as part of a deal with BBC Studios, which owns A Suitabl…

Lookout Point has begun shooting Season 2 of Suranne Jones’ BBC/HBO period drama Gentleman Jack amid the coronavirus pandemic. Season 2 will again use the real-life diaries of Anne Lister as its source, with writer Sally Wainwright basing the series in historical fact and the five million words Lister wrote in her…

BBC One’s adaptation of Vikram Seth's best-selling novel A Suitable Boy is heading to Netflix outside of the U.S., Canada and China, distributor BBC Studios has announced. The streamer has also clinched the Lookout Point drama for subscribers in UK and Ireland after its 12-month iPlayer window has expired following…

The BBC has dropped the first trailer for A Suitable Boy, director Mira Nair’s “human, funny, political, sexy chronicle of India.” The six-part series premieres on BBC One at 9PM on July 26. Nair, director of Golden Globe-nominated Monsoon Wedding, worked with Les Misérables and War & Peace writer Andrew Davies, and…

Gentleman Jack's Suranne Jones, Chernobyl's Jared Harris and writer Craig Mazin are among those nominated for the 2020 Royal Television Society Programme Awards. The British TV awards will be handed out by writer and comedian Paul Merton on March 17 at The Grosvenor Hotel. Channel 4 drama The Virtues is recognized in…

Surrane Jones, the star of HBO and BBC drama Gentleman Jack, is to star in and produce a drama based on the life of five-time female world boxing champion Jane Couch. Jones, via her TeamAkers Productions banner, and Gentleman Jack producer Lookout Point have optioned Couch's memoir The Final Round to develop it as a…