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The Crown and Harry Potter star Helena Bonham Carter is to play the lead in an ITV biopic from It’s A Sin creator Russell T Davies, the debut project for Nicola Shindler’s ITV Studios-backed drama label Quay Street Productions. Nolly will tell the story of Noele Gordon (Bonham Carter), who played Meg Richardson in hit…

Russell T Davies is making a return to flagship BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who as showrunner, 12 years after he left the role, the BBC has announced. Davies will succeed Chris Chibnall, who previously announced he will hand over the keys to the TARDIS next year. The show celebrates its 60th Anniversary in 2023. Davies was…

"It was something I was passionate about because in many ways, things don't change and it's not as if our society is completely sorted," It's a Sin creator Russell T Davies said of the HBO Max miniseries that focusing on the fatal devastation of AIDS in the UK in the 1980s. "People fighting for trans rights are going…

A Very English Scandal writer Russell T Davies has said that the success of his AIDS crisis series It’s A Sin is partly the result of his decision to only cast gay actors in lead roles. The five-part Red Production Company drama landed on HBO Max last month after notable success in the UK, where it garnered a string…

Russell T Davies, the creator of Channel 4 and HBO Max’s upcoming AIDS crisis series It's A Sin, has spoken out about the importance of casting gay actors as gay characters. Starring Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander, the series is already winning rave reviews and, during a publicity blitz ahead of its January 22…

A Very English Scandal writer Russell T Davies’ HBO Max/Channel 4 AIDS crisis series It’s A Sin has secured a raft of international deals. Made by Red Production Company, All3Media International has sold the series to HBO Europe and HBO Latin America. Amazon Prime Video has acquired the show in Canada, while Stan and…

EXCLUSIVE: A Very English Scandal producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins is just weeks into life at his new ITV Studios production label, but he is already spinning a number of projects since leaving Sony’s Blueprint Pictures. Deadline can reveal that Treadwell-Collins has picked up a project that topped this year's Brit L…

Dominic Treadwell-Collins, the executive producer of A Very English Scandal, is setting up a drama production label with ITV Studios. Treadwell-Collins is starting up at ITV Studios after more than three years as the head of television at Blueprint Pictures. He started his new role this week and will aim to create…

Neil Patrick Harris is to star in Russell T Davies' 1980s-set Channel 4 drama Boys. The How I Met Your Mother star is cast alongside Olly Alexander (Penny Dreadful), who leads the cast, Bodyguard's Keeley Hawes, Stephen Fry, Tracy Ann Oberman, Shaun Dooley, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells and Lydia West. The…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight's Years And Years finale on HBO. “The point is you don’t need a revolution for a Viv Rook to take over," declares Years And Years creator Russell T Davies of the populist uprising on the HBO dystopian family drama of the near future that literally and digitally…

With this year marking the 20th anniversary of Queer As Folk, the iconic British series is getting its first French adaptation. Former Studiocanal exec Joris Charpentier’s nascent Telfrance-based production label, Aux Singuliers, has put the new local spin in development after acquiring rights from DRG. The original…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Showtime’s The Loudest Voice & HBO’s Years And Years. The former premieres on June 30 & the latter debuts tonight. The initial round of voting for the 2019 Emmys ends today, but the opening salvos of the 2020 Emmys start tonight with the debut of Years and Years on HBO…