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Gangs Of London has become the latest major UK production to fall victim to a third wave of coronavirus. Filming on Season 2 of Sky and AMC’s gangland drama has been halted for 10 days after a crew member tested positive for Covid on Thursday. Deadline previously revealed that Bridgerton and The House Of The Dragon…

Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari (Waterfall, 17 Years and a Day) has been signed on to adapt and direct Mahsa Rahmani Nobel's novel Raya. The historical fiction book is about Princess Soraya Esfandiary Bahktiari, the only daughter of a prominent Iranian family. At 16 she is selected from among the most…

The BBC and AMC’s medical memoir series This Is Going To Hurt has rounded out its cast with stars including Harriet Walter (Killing Eve) and Alex Jennings (The Crown), while the broadcasters have revealed the first look at Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Ben Whishaw in the lead role. The seven-part drama, which was first…

Chernobyl producer Sister has confirmed that it will adapt Audible Original podcast West Cork, which tells the story of the 1996 murder of French TV and film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Deadline first revealed that Sister had optioned the podcast back in December. It is one of a number of TV projects in…

EXCLUSIVE: Sister, the media co-venture owned by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider, and Jane Featherstone, has posted a loss of $7.7M in its first 18 months of trading, during which it expanded its investment empire and was hit by the coronavirus production shutdown. The producer behind Emmy-winning Chernobyl and…

Sister, the Elisabeth Murdoch-backed producer behind Chernobyl, is launching an office in the north of England and has recruited The Split executive producer Lucy Dyke to lead the outpost. Northern Sister will be based in Manchester and will aim to establish relations with writers, producers, and creative talent…

The BBC and AMC’s SundanceTV have renewed Sister relationship series The Split for a third and final season. Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay and Chukwudi Iwuji are all set to reprise their roles in the drama, which is set in the fast-paced, complex world of London's…

Lydia Millet's apocalyptic climate change novel A Children's Bible is set to be adapted into a limited television series after Chernobyl producer Sister optioned the rights. Sundance Institute alum Tayarisha Poe, who has directed episodes of The Twilight Zone and Two Sentence Horror Stories and is adapting her…

Tia Mowry said she faced pay inequality and cultural and biracial stereotypes as a child star in the 1990s. The former Sister, Sister actress spoke out in the latest edition of her web series, Tia Mowry’s Quick Fix. She said her and her identical twin sister, Tamera, were treated differently on sets in her younger…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Sharpe, who starred in Netflix and BBC drama Giri/Haji and directed quirky British comedy Flowers, is taking over directing Olivia Colman drama series Landscapers. Sharpe replaces Alexander Payne, who was initially set as the director of the HBO and Sky co-production, which is produced by Chernobyl…

Olivia Colman’s South Of The River Pictures and its commercial partner Sister are launching a comedy writer competition, with at least one winner getting the chance to develop a TV script with the companies. The Screenshot initiative will be spearheaded by Debo Adebayo and will focus on comedy writer-performers from a…

Sister is teaming with New York Times bestselling author and journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner to develop and produce the feature film The Get, based on Matt Shaer's GQ article “The Orthodox Hit Squad.” Brodesser-Akner will write the feature. Carolyn Strauss and Kate Fenske are producing for Sister alongside Shaer. The…