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The Ink Factory, the Endeavor Content-backed production company best known for making The Night Manager, has optioned C Pam Zhang’s debut novel How Much Of These Hills Is Gold with a view to developing a TV series. The Ink Factory has partnered on the project with Anita Gou (The Farewell), who will executive produce…

EXCLUSIVE: Tracey Josephs, the head of production at The Night Manager producer The Ink Factory, is leaving the Endeavor Content-backed company after four years. Deadline understands that the former Film4 executive is taking a break from the television and film industry to help her brother run his food retail business…

EXCLUSIVE: The Ink Factory, the company behind AMC/BBC co-pros The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl and feature film Fighting with My Family, is growing its U.S. team. The company, which has offices in London and Los Angeles, has promoted Michele Wolkoff and hired Josie Cyrus from AMC Networks as part of its…

EXCLUSIVE: The Ink Factory, producer of Golden Globe-winning series The Night Manager and Stephen Merchant feature Fighting With My Family, has made job cuts as it refocuses on development following the coronavirus pandemic and its new partnership with Endeavour Content. Deadline understands that the UK production…

The Ink Factory, the production co behind The Night Manager and Fighting With My Family, has extended its financing partnership with investor 127 Wall Productions. The agreement will now run through 2024 and is expanding scope to cover significant development funding and increase production co-financing capacity for…

The Ink Factory, the London and Los Angeles-based producer behind The Little Drummer Girl, Fighting With My Family and The Night Manager, has appointed Maggie Boden to the role of Director of Development. The hire follows news earlier this year that Endeavor Content had bought a minority stake in the business and was…

Endeavor Content has struck a partnership deal with The Night Manager and Fighting With My Family producer The Ink Factory that includes the content financing arm of Endeavor taking a minority stake in the business. The deal also includes a development fund for The Ink Factory, which also produced Little Drummer Girl…

The Night Manager producer The Ink Factory has hired UK producer Katherine Butler (American Animals) in the newly-created role of Creative Director. Butler joins from Raw, where she was Creative Director for scripted. She was previously Deputy Head of Film at UK public funder Film4. At Raw, this year Butler wrapped…

Former Ink Factory partners Alexei Boltho and Rhodri Thomas, executive producers on The Night Manager, have launched new production company Ray Pictures, we can reveal. Backed by Endeavor Content and MediaNet Partners the company will develop, finance and produce for film and TV but will focus on scripted drama. The…

EXCLUSIVE: The Ink Factory has successfully mined the library of John le Carré with The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl and it seems that the company is now looking do the same with acclaimed British author Roald Dahl. I hear that Simon and Stephen Cornwell's firm is rebooting Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpe…

The Little Drummer Girl, the latest John Le Carré spy adaptation, launched last night on BBC One in the UK with just over 5M viewers. The ratings for the AMC co-pro couldn't match the launch of the BBC's previous Le Carré remake, The Night Manager, which opened in February 2016 with 6.1M overnight viewers. It also…

EXCLUSIVE: The writers room for the secretive second season of The Night Manager is complete and it's more gender balanced than it first appeared. I understand that Humans and Black Mirror writer Namsi Khan and The Man In The High Castle writer Francesca Gardiner are joining British spy author Charles Cumming and…