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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+’s international drama commissioning spree continues and Deadline can reveal New Pictures/Viacom International Studios (VIS) thriller The Blue, with filming set to commence in Thailand later this year. The Blue comes fresh off the back of announcements for UK shows Flatshare, Kenneth Branagh’s A Ge…

New Pictures CEO Charlie Pattinson has decided to step down, eight years after co-founding the All3Media-owned company behind Sky/HBO series Catherine The Great. Pattinson will step back from day-to-day duties running New Pictures, but will continue to executive produce certain projects and will advise the producer as…

EXCLUSIVE: New Pictures, the All3Media-backed producer behind Catherine The Great and Des, is to adapt Booker Prize-shortlisted author Monica Ali’s upcoming novel, Love Marriage. New Pictures will work with Ali to develop a television series based on the book, which tells the story of 26-year-old medic Yasmin Ghorami…

EXCLUSIVE: Catherine The Great and Des producer New Pictures has signed up two of the creative talents behind FX’s Emmy-winning limited drama Fosse/Verdon to adapt Kate Summerscale’s novel The Haunting of Alma Fielding into a TV series. Fosse/Verdon writer Charlotte Stoudt and director Minkie Spiro, who has also…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC streamer Acorn TV and ViacomCBS’s UK network Channel 5 are to further cement their forays into original drama by co-producing an adaptation of P.D. James’ best-selling Inspector Dalgliesh Mysteries crime novels. Catherine The Great and Cobra producer New Pictures secured the rights to the novels and…

EXCLUSIVE: New Pictures, the All3Media-backed drama producer behind series such as HBO's Catherine The Great and Starz' The Spanish Princess, has restructured its top team. Willow Grylls has been named Co-CEO alongside Charlie Pattinson, while Elaine Pyke has been named Creative Director. Grylls was one of the…

ITV has offered a first look at David Tennant as Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in its newly-announced miniseries Des. The drama from Catherine The Great producer New Pictures was unveiled on Friday and ITV quickly followed up by releasing an image of Tennant as the man who murdered at least 15 men and boys…

Good Omens star David Tennant is to play infamous Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in an ITV drama from the makers of Sky and HBO’s Catherine The Great. New Pictures’ three-part miniseries, Des, is based on the Brian Masters book Killing For Company, in which the author cooperated with Nilsen to get inside the…

EXCLUSIVE: New Pictures co-founder and chief operating officer Richard Nelson is leaving the Catherine The Great producer after more than five years. Nelson joined New Pictures in 2014 and is listed as the company’s co-founder alongside Charlie Pattinson, Elaine Pyke, and Willow Grylls. He played an important role in…

The Irishman's Stephen Graham and Black '47's Freddie Fox are to star in an ITV crime drama produced by Catherine The Great producer New Pictures. Graham, who also starred in HBO's Boardwalk Empire, plays DCI 'Taff' Jones and Fox plays Jeremy Bamber in White House Farm, a factual drama that tells the story of when…

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: 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…