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Asacha Media Group, the French production group formed last year by former Zodiak and Endemol execs, has signed up an All3Media International Senior Vice President as Head of International Content and Co-Productions. Reporting into founders Marina Williams and Gaspard de Chavagnac, Maria Ishak joins the firm…

Red Planet Pictures, the UK drama producer behind BBC/PBS series Death In Paradise, has sold a majority stake to Asacha Media Group, the emerging Paris-based production group founded by three former Endemol Shine and Zodiak executives. Financial details were not disclosed. Red Planet was founded in 2006 by Tony…

EXCLUSIVE: Death In Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures’ adaptation of Louise Candlish’s Sunday Times best-selling real-estate book Our House has been picked up by British broadcaster ITV. Red Planet announced that it had secured the rights to the novel last year and now Deadline can report that ITV has commissioned…

BBC and PBS drama Death in Paradise has returned to filming on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The series, which is filming its tenth season, was set to start shooting in April but was delayed by the COVID-19 production shutdown. Its return means that it is one of the first British dramas to start filming…

Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures is adapting real estate nightmare novel Our House into a TV drama after optioning the Louise Candlish-penned book. The British producer has tapped EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown to write. Red Planet scored the book rights from Luke Speed at Curtis Brown Group and said…

British broadcaster ITV and Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures are developing a family drama from newcomer writer Devin Doyle after he won their talent discovery scheme. Dublin-based writer Doyle won the Red Planet Prize 2018, which is run by Tony Jordan's production company and the commercial network and…

PBS Masterpiece and British broadcaster ITV have teamed up to bring Jane Austen's unfinished final novel Sanditon to television. The broadcasters have partnered on the eight-part adaptation with War and Peace and Mr Selfridge writer Andrew Davies, which will be produced by Death in Paradise and Dickensian producer Red…

Death in Paradise and Dickensian producer Red Planet Pictures is set to adapt Joanna Cannon's mystery drama Three Things About Elsie for the small screen and is developing a comedy-drama about drag queen girl band Denim. The projects are the latest scripted series to be revealed by the UK production company run by…

Huanxi Media Group, led by Chairman and powerhouse producer Dong Ping (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Journey To The West, Lost In Hong Kong) is teaming with Wong Kar Wai and Peter Chan, signing them to six-year cooperation deals. Both Wong and Chan become Director Shareholders and members of the Artistic Advisory of…

In a sort of super-literary-hero mash-up, filming has just begun on Dickensian, an ambitious 20-part BBC One period drama that brings together some of Charles Dickens’ most iconic characters. Stephen Rea has joined the cast as Inspector Bucket from Bleak House while Shirley Valentine Oscar nominee Pauline Collins is…

Tony Jordan's Red Planet Pictures has entered an exclusive development deal with BBC Worldwide that will see the commercial arm of the BBC provide investment, co-production expertise and global market support in return for the first-look on Red Planet's new content. Red Planet's credits as producer include Death In Par…