The BBC has unveiled the first look at British spy drama The Capture starring Strike's Holliday Grainger and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald's Callum Turner. The six-part series, which is produced by Heyday Television and NBCUniversal International Studios, will air later this year. It begins when soldier…

The Awesome Show producer Dan Munday is heading back down under to join NBCUniversal's Matchbox Pictures. He will become Head of Unscripted at the company, which produces a slew of local adaptation of The Real Housewives. Munday has spent the last few years working with Universal Television Alternative Studio in LA…

EXCLUSIVE: Hanna producer Working Title TV is adapting Inua Ellams' play Black T-Shirt Collection into a TV series – marking the first television project for the rising playwright and poet. The London-based producer, which is a joint venture with NBCUniversal International Studios, secured the rights to the play with…

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian broadcaster CTV has partnered with NBCUniversal International Studios on primetime medical procedural The Transplant. The series is produced by 19-2 producer SphèreMédia Plus and NBCUniversal will hold international rights outside of Canada with a particular eye on a U.S. sale. The show will be…

NBCUniversal International Studios has appointed Charlotte Bloxham to the newly created role of Head of Production. Based in London, Bloxham will be responsible for managing scripted production across the company's UK-based entities that include Heyday Television, Working Title Television and NBCUniversal…

NBCUniversal has reached within its ranks to find a replacement for outgoing NBCUniversal International Studios president Michael Edelstein. NBCUniversal cable veteran Jeff Wachtel, most recently Chief Content Officer, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment and President, Universal Cable Productions & Wilshire Studios, has…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Edelstein will be stepping down from his post as President of NBCUniversal International Studios after more than seven years. He just made the announcement internally (You can read his note to his colleagues under the post) The departure is said to be amicable, and Edelstein will stay on until the…

Amazon Studios has given a straight-to-series order to Hanna, a drama based on Focus Features’ offbeat 2011 assassin pic, from David Farr, who co-wrote the feature, and NBCUniversal International Studios. Emmy-nominated Farr, who most recently adapted John Le Carre’s The Night Manager for BBC/AMC, will pen the…

NBCUniversal International Studios and Imagine Exhibitions are set to launch Downton Abbey: The Exhibition, a fully immersive experience that takes visitors inside the global TV phenom. The multi-year international tour will begin on June 17 in Singapore and then travel throughout the U.S. in 2018 and beyond. The…

Working Title Television UK has hired former BBC exec Mark Freeland has Head of Television Comedy, effective immediately. Based in London, he will work closely alongside Andrew Woodhead, Managing Director of Working Title Television. Freeland was previously Controller, Fiction & Entertainment at the BBC, a role he…

Sam Semon has been tapped for the newly created post of EVP Business Affairs at NBCUniversal International Studios. Tasked with oversight of U.S. biz affairs for the L.A.-based International Studios scripted team, Heyday Television US and Working Title Television US, he’ll start the job February 8, reporting to unit…

EXCLUSIVE: The Hunger Games alumna Leven Rambin has been cast as the female lead opposite Chris Noth in Gone, a 12-episode procedural drama series for NBCUniversal International Studios, Germany's RTL and France's TF1. The series, which eyes a launch in winter 2017-18, was created by Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer's Apprenti…