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Apple is rounding out its ensemble cast for its upcoming true-crime limited series Manhunt, about the Lincoln assassination. Brandon Flynn (13 Reasons Why), Betty Gabriel (Get Out), Will Harrison (Daisy Jones & The Six), Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass), Damian O'Hare (Perry Mason), Patton Oswalt (Gaslit) and Lili Tayl…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy nominee and SAG Award winner Matt Walsh has boarded the Apple Original limited series Manhunt about the Lincoln assassination and aftermath. Walsh will play Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Mudd did not report Booth to…

Anthony Boyle and Lovie Simone are set as leads alongside Tobias Menzies in Manhunt, Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series about the President Lincoln’s assassination, from Friday Night Lights and Fargo writer-producer Monica Beletsky, Lionsgate and 3 Arts. Manhunt is based on James Swanson’s bestselling book Manhunt: Th…

Tobias Menzies is eschewing royal Britain to try and catch President Abraham Lincoln's killer in a new limited drama series for Apple TV+ from Lionstage and 3 Arts. The Crown star will play Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s War Secretary and friend, who was nearly driven to madness by the need to catch assassin John Wilkes…

EXCLUSIVE: Manhunt co-creator Andrew Sodroski has been hired to adapt the screenplay for action-thriller Rogue from STXfilms, Tencent and producer David Goyer.  As we revealed earlier this year, Dean Israelite (Power Rangers) is directing. Dark Knight scribe Goyer and Keith Levine are producing for Phantom Four, which…

Acorn TV, the eight-year-old streaming service owned by AMC Networks, has surpassed one million subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. Known for its specialty in British and international TV series like Manhunt and Doc Martin, Acorn has branched out of late.   Business-wise, it has opened the aperture in terms of…

EXCLUSIVE: Witchery Pictures, a drama label owned by All3Media, is developing a returning series about The Hacienda, an iconic British night club founded by New Order. Deadline has learned that the company has acquired the rights to The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club, which was written by New Order and Joy Division…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Huston and Cameron Britton are set as the leads in season 2 of Spectrum Originals’ anthology series Manhunt, from Lionsgate Television. Spectrum parent Charter Communications last year made a deal with Lionsgate for new seasons of the Manhunt anthology series whose first installment, Manhunt: Unibomber…

British crime drama Manhunt, starring Doc Martin's Martin Clunes, has become ITV's highest rated new drama since the launch of Broadchurch in 2013. Is it this year's Bodyguard? The drama, which is produced by Buffalo Pictures and written by Ed Whitmore (Silent Witness), averaged 8.7M viewers across its three episodes…

Acorn TV has acquired a pair of Martin Clunes-fronted titles including true crime drama Manhunt. The SVOD service has acquired ITV drama Manhunt, which stars Doc Martin's Clunes as Detective Colin Sutton, the police officer who tenaciously pursued British serial killer Levi Bellfield. The series, which is produced by…

EXCLUSIVE:  Charter Communications continues to ramp up the original scripted series slate for its Spectrum cable systems. I have learned that the company is in advanced negotiations with Lionsgate Television for a two-season order to anthology series Manhunt. I hear the first of the two 10-episode seasons would…

EXCLUSIVE: Elyse Klaits has joined John Goldwyn Productions as VP Television, where she will be tasked with identifying, developing and producing projects for the company that recently inked a first-look deal at Lionsgate TV. On the TV side, John Goldwyn’s production company is behind Discovery Channel’s anthology…