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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…

NBCUniversal International Studios has optioned rights to Image Comics’ graphic novel series Trees. First published in 2014, the sci-fi works are by comic book writer and New York Times bestselling author Warren Ellis (Red) and illustrator, Jason Howard. Adapting for the screen will be London-based Hardy Son & Baker…

Heyday Television — the joint venture of feature producer David Heyman (Harry Potter, Gravity, Paddington) and NBCUniversal International Studios — has appointed Nancy Cotton as U.S. President of Production. Cotton, who starts today, comes from Fox 21 TV Studios, where she served as SVP Creative Affairs. She will work…

In its first European deal for an off-air pilot, NBCUniversal International Studios’ new game show format QuizUp has been sold to the UK’s ITV. Based on the popular trivia app, this is one of the more talked about non-scripted offerings here at Mipcom. The UK version will be produced by one of NBCUniversal…