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EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal has confirmed that it is back in the UK acquisitions game by taking a “significant” stake in a production outfit founded by The Last Kingdom producer Phil Temple. The French production group has acquired an undisclosed holding in Birdie Pictures, which was established by former…

Under the new hours-watched weekly metric charts implemented by Netflix back in November, the Shawn Levy-Ryan Reynolds reteam The Adam Project exploded with 92.4 million hours watched by the streamer’s subscribers for the week ending March 13. The figure includes all hours watched for the movie — both those who’ve…

EXCLUSIVE: Domina actor Ewan Horrocks has landed a recurring role in the final season of Netflix’s historical drama The Last Kingdom. Horrocks will appear throughout the season as Aelfweard. He is currently filming in Budapest, Hungary, where Carnival Films is producing the fifth season of The Last Kingdom, which is…

EXCLUSIVE: The Last Kingdom is to ride out for a final time, as Netflix brings the curtain down on the beloved adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's best-selling The Saxon Stories novels. The streaming giant and producer Carnival Films confirmed that Season 5 of The Last Kingdom will be the last, bringing an end to a…

Netflix has commissioned a fifth season of The Last Kingdom, its adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's best-selling The Saxon Stories novels. Made by Carnival Films, the Downton Abbey producer that is part of NBCUniversal International Studios, Season 5 will be based on Cornwell's ninth and tenth novels: The Warriors of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Carnival Films, the NBCUniversal production company behind Downton Abbey, has said its revenue took a hit last year as it looks to find its next mega-hit. In earnings filed at the UK’s Companies House this week, the Gareth Neame-led indie reported that its total sales were £58.8 million ($73 million) in…

Euro 2016 soccer play continued on Sunday with broadcasters in the major markets enjoying solid ratings. Last night, 2014 World Cup champs Germany bested Ukraine 2-0, including a last-minute winner from veteran Bastian Schweinsteiger who entered the match as a late substitute. At home, the match drew 26.6M viewers for…

With shooting just begun on the second season of historical drama The Last Kingdom, Netflix has joined the series as co-producer and will air it next year in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain and Portugal. BBC America, which broadcast the first season Stateside in 2015, is no longer…

BBC America has dropped some pretty intense footage from the series premiere of The Last Kingdom. The historical drama from BBC America, BBC Two and Carnival Films debuts October 10 in the U.S. setting up the adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's best-selling series of books, The Saxon Stories. The eight-part drama follows…

BBC America has dropped the first trailer for original series The Last Kingdom, from Downton Abbey executive producers Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant. The eight-part drama series, set against the birth of England, follows young warrior and outsider Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon), on a fierce mission to reclaim his…

Do not compare Carnival Films’ new BBC America series The Last Kingdom to HBO’s Game Of Thrones (many have), the former’s EP Gareth Neame told TV critics this morning at TCA, after one of them did just that and asked him to discuss. “I'm a huge admirer of Game Of Thrones but that is fantasy,” Neame said. “We have no…

BBC America has set 10 PM ET Saturday, October 10 for the premiere of its new original series The Last Kingdom. We're also getting a first look at the Game Of Thrones-esque epic series with just-released key art. Set in the 9th century, the eight-part historical drama is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's…