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BritBox president Soumya Sriraman has said she is relaxed about the arrival of Apple to the streaming wars. Speaking at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam on Friday, Sriraman said she is not worried about being undercut by Apple TV+ when it launches on November 1. Apple TV+ will be keenly priced at…

Hulu has boarded Aisling Bea comedy This Way Up as The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi, The Crown's Tobias Menzies and Game of Thrones' Indira Varma join the Sharon Horgan-exec produced series. The U.S. digital service has partnered with Channel 4, which ordered the series, previously known as Happy AF, last year. The…

EXCLUSIVE: The Favourite producer Element Pictures has set its next movie to go into production: the intimate, female-fronted drama Herself, which is set against the housing crisis. Element will produce with Catastrophe star and co-writer Sharon Horgan’s Merman. Set in Dublin, Herself is the story of young mother…

Guesswork Television, the production company behind Hannah Gadsby's Nanette, is teaming with Sharon Horgan's Merman for a period comedy series for Sky and Australia's ABC. The British pay-TV broadcaster and Australian public broadcaster have commissioned Frayed, a six-part series fronted by comedian Sarah Kendall and T…

Catastrophe creator Sharon Horgan is to star in and produce a six-part drama for British broadcaster UKTV and Irish network RTÉ based on the best-selling book Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Lorna Martin. Horgan will appear alongside Better Call Saul and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star…

British broadcaster Channel 4 is doubling down on comedy after handing the genre a £10M (US$13.4M) budget boost and scoring a number of projects involving Catastrophe creator Sharon Horgan. Horgan will star and exec produce Happy AF (w/t), a comedy about trying to find happiness. Created by Aisling Bea, who is set to…

Amazon Studios has signed an overall deal with a creative force behind another one of its popular comedy series, Catastrophe co-creator and star Sharon Horgan. In addition to the overall deal for Horgan, Amazon Studios has signed a first-look deal with Horgan and and Clelia Mountford's UK-based Merman. The pact gives…