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The Circle, the latest creation from the format gurus at Undercover Boss producer Studio Lambert, is back on British television — and it proved popular with younger viewers. Channel 4 launched the second season on Tuesday ahead of its U.S. debut on Netflix, which picked up the show last year, calling it “compelling…

Alex Mahon, the chief executive of British broadcaster Channel 4, has attacked the streaming giants for stuffing their platforms with indistinct “trans-territory filler” and putting their commercial needs above all else. In a speech at the Royal Television Society’s Cambridge Convention on Thursday, Mahon took the…

Former Big Brother host Emma Willis is to host the second season of Channel 4's reality series The Circle. She is to replace Alice Levine and Maya Jama for the second run of the format, which is being remade by Netflix in the U.S. and in a number of other territories. The social media based-show will also move from…

EXCLUSIVE: Motion Content Group, the WPP-backed business that has co-produced and financed international hits including reality format Love Island and Syfy's Western horror thriller Wynonna Earp, is one of the most recondite TV producers and financiers in the industry. The company, which is in 26 international markets…

Social media-based reality series The Circle is returning to Channel 4 after the British broadcaster ordered a second season. This comes after Netflix snapped up the international rights to the format and Deadline revealed that it was making French and Brazilian series as well as a U.S. adaptation. The series, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is going French and Brazilian for British reality hit The Circle. Earlier this year, the SVOD service snapped up the international rights to Studio Lambert's format, which was originally produced for the UK’s Channel 4, and announced it was remaking the show for the U.S. Deadline can now reveal that…

Netflix is remaking British reality hit The Circle in three international markets including the U.S., marking one of its biggest non-scripted entertainment bets since Ultimate Beastmaster. The SVOD platform has struck a major deal for the series, which is essentially Big Brother-meets-Catfish for a social…

Anyone can be anyone in The Circle… Channel 4 has given audiences the first glimpse of the latest reality series from Undercover Boss and Gogglebox producer Studio Lambert. The Circle is, essentially, Big Brother for a social media age; where individuals from all walks of life will compete in a popularity contest to…

Writethru, 4th update: Sunday final: While it's normal for moviegoers to ease their spending the weekend before a huge tentpole opens, in this case Disney/Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 which is projected to make $150M, this weekend's problem at the box office isn't the late April date, but the sheer lack of…

No shocker here: Universal’s The Fate of the Furious will own the weekend for the third time in a row in U.S/Canada with $24M-$25M, and by Saturday, around the world, it will rank as the 30th title ever to cross $1 billion at the box office. For Universal, F8 will rep the seventh time this year out of 17 weekends that…

EuropaCorp has released the latest trailer this morning for its modern thriller The Circle, which features a strong ensemble cast of Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, Ellar Coltrane, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan and Patton Oswalt. The film underwent reshoots about four weeks ago, but STX/EuropaCorp is still sticking…

A new trailer for EuropaCorp’s upcoming thriller The Circle hit the web and it features Tom Hanks as a charismatic founder of a tech company who claims that the key to human perfection is complete transparency. “Without secrets, without the hoarding of knowledge and information, we can finally realize our potential,&#8221…