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EXCLUSIVE: The Crown duo Left Bank Pictures and Netflix have set Little Voice, The Gifted and Reign star Sean Teale as male lead in their new Spain-set series Palomino (working title, which will likely change). Teale joins lead Evin Ahmad in the eight-part thriller series set in the suburbs of Barcelona. Filming is…

EXCLUSIVE: Snabba Cash and The Rain star Evin Ahmad is to lead Netflix’s upcoming female-led action adventure series Palomino, with filming kicking off in Barcelona later this year. The Swedish-Kurdish actress, a rising talent, will play Erin Collantes in the show from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, a British…

Netflix is in early-stage conversations with The Crown producer Left Bank over a prequel to the smash hit royal drama. The show’s penultimate season will launch later this year, introducing a slew of new actors and characters such as Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana, and sources confirmed a potential prequel is in…

Emily in Paris actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu has revealed that she will be appearing in the forthcoming season of The Crown. Having won admiring reviews for her role of marketing boss Sylvie Grateau – who frequently butts horns with younger American marketing executive Emily Cooper, played by Lily Collins…

Netflix is upping the cost of its subscription plans in the UK and Ireland with its standard package increasing in by £1 ($1.31) to £10.99 ($14.46) in the UK and by €2 ($2.20) to €14.99 ($16.54) in Ireland. Its lowest level of service, the basic package, climbed from £1 ($1.31) to £6.99 ($9.19) in the UK and by €1…

A second robbery on a Netflix set has taken place within the space of a week, this time, ironically, French heist series Lupin. According to AFP, around €300,000 ($333,000) worth of equipment was stolen last week in the French neighbourhood of Nanterre where the shoot was taking place, near the capital Paris. Filming…

Around 350 items intended for use in the filming of the fifth season of Netflix hit The Crown were taken from vehicles this weekend while filming of the series was taking place. Among the missing items was a replica of the 1897 Imperial Coronation coach egg by Fabergé, 12 sets of silver candelabra and seven gold…

EOne has signed The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures exec Sharon Hughff as Creative Director, Scripted Television in the UK. Reporting into Global Scripted Television President Pancho Mansfield, Hughff will oversee eOne’s scripted team and pipeline in the nation, spearheading efforts to expand the slate to Europe and…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set female-led action adventure series Palomino from Sony-backed The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, with filming set to get underway later this year in Barcelona. Sky’s Strike Back: Vendetta exec/writing duo Rob Bullock and Jack Lothian are to combine again on the project, with Lothian also…

Actress Mahira Khan may have spilled a big secret about an important casting in the upcoming season of Netflix’s royal family drama The Crown. Khan tweeted today that Humayun Saeed has apparently won the role of Dr. Hasnat Ahmad Khan, the British-Pakistani heart and lung surgeon who had a romantic relationship with…

EXCLUSIVE: Spain-based The Crown and Night Manager production services outfit Palma Pictures, which recently entered the original drama game, has kickstarted an investment round to support its expansion. Palma has appointed Moore Kingston Smith Corporate Finance to seek an undisclosed amount of investment from the…

The Crown has found its Prince William, very close to home. Senan West, the 13-year-old son of Dominic West, who portrays Prince Charles in the royal drama’s upcoming fifth season, will join his dad in the role of Prince William, Deadline has confirmed. We understand Senan West will play a slightly older Prince…