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EXCLUSIVE: British actress Aimee Lou Wood, best known for her starring role in Netflix’s Sex Education, has signed with CAA for representation. Wood portrays schoolgirl Aimee Gibbs in Sex Education, which is heading into its fourth season on Netflix. She received two BAFTA nominations for best female…

The UK government’s move to regulate the streamers in line with broadcasters could “prove unworkable or risk a chilling effect,” according to the SVoD’s UK Head of Policy. Benjamin King raised concerns that the impartiality requirements contained in media regulator Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code, which…

Netflix will have invested almost $6BN in UK content over four years by the end of 2023, the streamer has revealed. Unveiling the news at a London Showcase tonight, Netflix said it has been spending an average of around $1.5BN on films and TV series each year since 2020. In 2020, it spent $1BN…

Ita O’Brien, the pioneering Intimacy Coordinator who has worked on the likes of Normal People, I May Destroy You and Sex Education, has founded what is being called the “world’s first degree in intimacy practice.” O’Brien’s Intimacy on Set outfit has joined with the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts…

Emma Mackey is saying goodbye to Sex Education after four seasons. While attending the BAFTA Awards where she won the Rising Star award, the Netflix star revealed that she was exiting the series and would not come back for a potential Season 5. “Season 5? I’ve just finished the fourth one last week!&#8221…

Shane Allen’s Boffola Pictures Names Comedy Head Shane Allen's Boffola Pictures has hired Ladhood producer Joe Nunnery as its Head of Comedy. Established by former Channel 4 and BBC Comedy boss Allen and Kate Daughton in 2021, the indie is behind Daisy May Cooper BBC comedy thriller series Am I Being…

EXCLUSIVE: Life is literally a Cabaret for Aimee Lou Wood, star of Netflix comedy Sex Education and awards season movie Living, who is rehearsing to make her West End musical debut as Sally Bowles in the radical revival of the classic show by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Wood joins John McCrea, who was…

EXCLUSIVE: Aimee Lou Wood describes the young woman she plays opposite Bill Nighy in the acclaimed movie  Living as the film's "character of life." It's a performance that's been steadily attracting awards season buzz, and is recognized in the BAFTA longlist, announced today. However, Wood says that…

EXCLUSIVE: Sex Education producer Eleven is embarking on its next project, a TV series adaptation of up-and-coming creative duo Oliver Taylor and Dillon Mapletoft’s stage show Fix My Brain. The pair, who are adapting with Eleven, developed their two-person comedy show at university and performed it…

A comedy-drama series from Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films about an ambitious young model tops this year's Brit List of the best unproduced TV and film scripts. Issy Knowles' Model Behaviour has landed seven recommendations to put it two ahead of the second-placed Hat Trick Mercurio series The H…

EXCLUSIVE: Sex Education's Connor Swindells said he felt privileged to land the lead role in the stonking BBC One WW2 desert warfare drama SAS Rogue Heroes, and he praised director, Tom Shankland (The Serpent) "for considering me for this, because this isn't something that comes my way." The six-part…

Narcos: Mexico has picked up two nominations at the International Emmy Awards 2022 and will battle with Lupin, Vigil and South Africa’s Reyka for the coveted Drama Series prize. The Netflix spin-off smash hit also picked up a nod for Scoot McNairy in the Best Performance By an Actor category, a hot contest that will…