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Steve Coogan (Philomena) has been cast as Jimmy Savile in BBC One drama The Reckoning. Savile rose from working-class origins to become one of the biggest stars of British television, but faced rumors of misconduct during his career. After his death in 2011, the full extent of his crimes, which included sexually…

EXCLUSIVE: Christine Langan, the CEO of Steve Coogan’s film and TV production company Baby Cow, has stepped down after four years to launch her own production venture. Deadline can reveal that the former BBC Films chief has set up Bonnie Productions, through which she will continue to develop film and TV…

EXCLUSIVE: Pathé has boarded world sales ahead of the AFM on UK comedy-drama The Lost King, inspired by the remarkable 2012 true story of finding Brit monarch King Richard III’s remains under a Leicester car park. Steve Coogan has co-written the script with his Stan & Ollie and Philomena collaborator Jeff Pope. Philome…

Steve Coogan’s iconic comic creation Alan Partridge has landed his own Audible podcast, titled From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast. The 18-part series comes out of Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions and will feature the fictional TV and radio presenter offering “audio vignettes” on his life. The series will drop…

The good news is British comedy stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are still traveling together, eating great meals and trading wickedly funny impressions of actors. The bad news is they say this fourth go-round in the Trip series is their last. Say it ain’t so. These acidly witty and fun excuses for the pair to travel…

Baby Cow Productions, the UK film and TV outfit with credits including Alan Partridge, Stan & Ollie and The Trip, has named Sarah Monteith as Managing Director. In the newly-created role, which she will take up in mid-May, Monteith will work alongside CEO Christine Langan. Monteith was most recently interim Chief…

The character of British fashion mogul Sir Richard McCreadie in the new satire Greed is fictional, but as you will see in this very potent film from writer-director Michael Winterbottom (co-written by Sean Gray), he cuts close to the bone. With tabloid-fodder billionaires so much in the news today, and at the center…

Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani are writing and co-starring in a comedy-drama about sexual politics in the wake of the #MeToo movement for Britain’s Channel 4. Produced by Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions, Chivalry stars Coogan and Solemani as filmmakers put together by a cynical studio executive to salvage a failing…

Jane Fonda was the talk of Friday night’s British Academy Britannia Awards – and she didn’t even have to show up to steal the spotlight. Receiving the prestigious Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award For Excellence In Film, Fonda pulled off what is easily the most unusual acceptance speech ever given in the annals of…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics is negotiating a U.S. distribution deal for Greed, the Michael Winterbottom-directed fashion industry satire, Deadline hears. The film makes its World Premiere today at the Elgin Theatre here in Toronto. Pic stars Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher, Shirley Henderson, Asa…

BAFTA Los Angeles said Tuesday that Steve Coogan will receive the organizations Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy at this year’s British Academy Britannia Awards. The annual event is set for October 25 at the Beverly Hilton. Coogan has won seven BAFTA Awards and seven British Comedy Awards, This…

Rob Byrdon (Holmes & Watson) and Steve Coogan (Stan & Ollie) have begun filming on The Trip To Greece, the fourth installment in their hit comedy travelogue. UK comedy actor Brydon tweeted such yesterday with Coogan’s production outfit Baby Cow doing the same: Filming begins on The Trip To Greece… pic.twitter.com/hdL…