EXCLUSIVE: 24 Hours in A&E producer The Garden has scored a major blue-chip documentary series on global childhood development for ITV. The producer is making primetime series Planet Child for the broadcaster, a three-part series that has been in the making for two years. It will present a series of scientific…

EXCLUSIVE: DeVon Franklin, the producer behind faith-based films like Miracles from Heaven, The Star, and the forthcoming Breakthrough, has teamed with Fox Family for a live-action/ CGI musical twist on the story of the Garden of Eden, the biblical paradise introduced in the book of Genesis. The Garden will follow how…

Channel 4 is to reignite its investment in British production companies after bringing in the former boss of ITV-owned producer The Garden. Nick Curwin, who co-founded the firm, which produces long-running hit 24 Hours In A&E, has joined C4's Indie Growth Fund Advisory Board. Curtin will work alongside Lorraine…

EXCLUSIVE: Polly (Cohen) Johnsen and her Warner Bros-based Polymorphic Pictures have come on board to produce E.B. Rhee’s The Garden. The hope is to start a new science fiction franchise, and this is all based on a proof-of-concept short directed by Rhee as well as a feature screenplay written by Rhee & Aaron…

ITV has ordered a second season of WWII drama Home Fires from ITV Studios. The show currently airs on Sunday evenings, comfortably winning its slot with a consolidated average rating of 6.2M viewers to date and a 24% share. Home Fires follows a group of inspirational women at the heart of a rural Cheshire community…

The Garden was launched two years ago in the UK by BAFTA winners, Nick Curwin and Magnus Temple, after selling their company Dragonfly to Shine. At Dragonfly, they created One Born Every Minute and The Family for Channel 4. Currently, The Garden is in production on two shows for Channel 4 — 24 Hours In A&E and Seven Dw…