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Belgium's Oscar-shortlisted International Feature is an intimate child's-eye view of bullying from debut writer-director Laura Wandel. Playground is known as Un Monde in its native French language, and this is set in a world of its own: the school that two siblings must navigate to get through the day. We meet…

Colin Callender's Playground and Red Arrow Studios International are joining forces to co-develop a premium English-language returning drama series based on Georges Simenon’s classic Inspector Maigret novels. Georges Simenon Limited (GSL) will act as co-production partner. Playground's option deal with GSL extends to…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a huge transatlantic project for you: The team behind Golden Globe-winning BBC/PBS drama Wolf Hall, including Oscar winner Mark Rylance, are reuniting to make cybersecurity series The Undeclared War for NBCUniversal streamer Peacock and UK broadcaster Channel 4. The six-part series is written and…

EXCLUSIVE: Don DeLillo's novel Libra, a speculative account of the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy interwoven with the life story of his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, is being adapted for television. Deadline understands that Spectrum Originals is developing a limited series adaptation of the book with American Spy…

ViacomCBS’s UK broadcaster Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece have confirmed that period veterinary drama All Creatures Great And Small will return for a second six-part season. Deadline reported last month that the renewal was all-but done, with Playground Entertainment ready to begin shooting Season 2 in the Yorkshire…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Callender’s Playground (Wolf Hall, Howards End) has acquired the television rights to award-winning documentary The Dog to develop as a drama series. Directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, The Dog tells the extraordinary back-story of the late John Wojtowicz, the bank robber whose antics…

Adults, Emma Jane Unsworth's follow-up novel to Animals, is set to be adapted for television after Playground and wiip partnered to option the screen rights. The Howards End and Wolf Hall producer, run by Colin Callender, and the Dickinson studio, run by Paul Lee, are to adapt the series with Unsworth, Callender, Lee…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony- and Golden Globe-winning production company Playground (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Wolf Hall) is expanding into immersive theatre with a financial investment in Witness, the new theater company behind sold-out New York productions of Noirtown and The Visitation. Witness was created and is…

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…

Topic Studios and Playground are developing States of America, an hourlong dystopian drama written by Tom King, a former CIA officer turned bestselling author and comic book writer, as a television series. States of America is set in a deeply divided U.S. that with an unprovoked act of war has been forced to suffer…

Colin Callender’s Playground and Sonia Friedman Productions are teaming for a contemporary TV movie version of King Lear, with a starry ensemble led by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. The duo is reuniting after seminal early ’90s collaborations Howards End and The Remains Of The Day. Richard Eyre will helm the…

Colin Collender’s Playground has optioned the rights to David Enrich's new narrative nonfiction book The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History, for series development. Author and Wall Street Journal business editor Enrich won…