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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…

HBO and Emma Thompson have come on board Russell T Davies' dystopian family drama Years & Years. The show, which was originally commissioned by BBC One and produced by Happy Valley firm Red Production Company, has set Harry Potter and Love Actually star Thompson in the lead role of Vivienne Rook, an outspoken…

Fresh from the success of A Very English Scandal, writer Russell T Davies is focusing on AIDs in the 1980s for his next British drama project. The Doctor Who writer (above) has created The Boys, a five-part series for Channel 4. The series is produced by Studiocanal-owned Red Production Company, which recently made…

Doctor Who writer and exec producer Russell T Davies is penning a dystopian family drama for BBC One, produced by Happy Valley firm Red Production Company. The British public broadcaster has ordered Years and Years from the pair, which will follow a busy family from Manchester with their lives converging on one…

HBO has inked a multi-year deal with Russian pay-TV and SVOD outfit Amedia, which will give the company exclusive rights to HBO's upcoming programs as well as HBO's entire programming library. The exclusive partnership will give Amedia TV the rights to the final season of Game Of Thrones in the territory as well as…