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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…

The BFI London Film Festival has added four titles to its lineup, including three fresh from the Venice Film Festival and one that heads to New York at the end of this month. Alex Gibney’s No Stone Unturned will screen in LFF’s Debate strand. From Jigsaw Productions and Fine Point Films, the documentary reopens the…

Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera has added a trio of titles to the program for the 74th edition which begins later this month. World premiering out of competition is John Woo’s Manhunt, while L’Ordine Delle Cose by Andrea Segre will have a Special Screening and Italian documentary The Enigma Of Jean Rouch In…

In a competitive situation, Manhunt, a half-hour series project from Happy Endings creator David Caspe, Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon, Black List writer Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl) and Life In Pieces executive producer Aaron Kaplan, has landed at Showtime for development. I hear the pitch, from Sony TV…

Veteran filmmaker John Woo is the helmer of such iconic movies as 1989’s The Killer, 1992’s Hard Boiled and later Face/Off (have John Travolta or Nicolas Cage ever been better?), Mission: Impossible 2 and the Red Cliff movies. He’s about to see the second part of his passion project, The Crossing, released in China…

NBC has committed to Manhunt, an anthology-style drama series from creators Zack Rice and Whit Brayton, director Gavin Hood and Anonymous Content, the company behind True Detective and The Knick. The project has received a 10-episode order contingent on it getting casting and script approval from the network…