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EXCLUSIVE: Viacom's Channel 5 is doubling down on its dive into drama with a four-part thriller from the creator of Derry Girls. The British broadcaster has ordered The Deceived from All3Media-owned producer New Pictures, the company behind Starz' The Spanish Princess, Netflix's The Innocents and HBO and Sky's…

Starz has handed The Spanish Princess a second run of eight episodes, with the Lionsgate broadcaster saying Monday that will bring to an end the limited series telling the story of Catherine of Aragon. Charlotte Hope and Ruairi O'Connor return in their roles as Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, respectively, while…

EXCLUSIVE: Trainspotting and Once Upon A Time star Robert Carlyle and The Crown's Victoria Hamilton are to star in a British political drama for Sky. Catherine The Great producer New Pictures is making six-part series Cobra about what happens in the corridors of power during a time of national emergency. Pretty good…

EXCLUSIVE: Requiem and The Missing producer New Pictures has optioned the screen rights to female-fronted dystopian YA novel The Territory by Sarah Govett. New Pictures’ Elaine Pyke acquired the rights from Casarotto Ramsay & Associates in a deal brokered by Mark Casarotto of Casarotto Ramsay on behalf of the Jane…

EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things breakout Charlie Heaton is to star as Joseph Merrick in new two-part BBC One drama The Elephant Man, I can reveal. The 2×90 minute drama bio-pic, from The Missing and Requiem producer New Pictures, will chart Merrick’s extraordinary story from his working-class beginnings in Leicestershire…

EXCLUSIVE: All3Media's drama push continues with the launch of a new label run by former Red Planet execs Siobhan Finnigan and Judith King. The pair have established Witchery Pictures and have already set up their first project – a Commitments-style musical drama featuring music from Snow Patrol. Witchery Pictures is…

Discovery and Liberty Global’s superindie, All3Media, is diving deeper into drama with the acquisition of UK-based New Pictures. The company makes such series as BBC One/Starz’ The Missing and Channel4/Masterpiece’s Indian Summers. Second seasons of each are currently in production. Two new dramas, crime series Rellik…