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The Night Manager producer The Ink Factory is forging a German TV version of John Le Carré'’s A Most Wanted Man almost a decade after making a feature film version, with Snabba Cash writer Oskar Söderlund attached as showrunner. Filmed in German, the TV version will see The Ink Factory reunite with Al…

Fighting With My Family and The Night Manager producer Ink Factory has promoted Michele Wolkoff to Creative Director out of LA, leading teams in London, Mumbai and Seoul. Wolkoff takes over from Katherine Butler, who stepped down over the summer, while Ian Spence has been promoted to Head of Finance and…

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, 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 Night Manager executive producer Stephen Garrett is taking his latest run at the spy genre after his production house optioned a book on Russian espionage by the BBC’s long-time security correspondent. Character 7 has taken the rights to Gordon Corera's non-fiction book Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stori…

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…

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…

The secretive second season of The Night Manager is coming together after British spy author Charles Cumming revealed that he was part of the writing team. Cumming is the second name to emerge for the mysterious group of scribes after Deadline revealed in November that up-and-coming British writer Matthew Orton is on…

Former Zodiak UK CEO Rod Henwood has joined the The Night Manager producer The Ink Factory in the newly created role of Chief Strategy Officer, responsible for strategy, partnerships, story-world development and marketing. He is also taking a seat on The Ink Factory board of directors. Former CEO of TV production…

When it comes to UK-produced organized crime thrillers, AMC has is following form after its major hit The Night Manager. Once again, they’re exploring the topic with new eight-part show McMafia, which deals with corporate-level organized crime and the Russian mafia. Inspired by the bestselling book of the same name by…

UPDATED, 5:10 PM: Stephen Cornwell, a principal at The Ink Factory (The Night Manger) and his family — despite losing their home and all their belongings in the Ojai/Thomas fire — are asking those in the industry to help others in need: My wife, the kids and I want to thank all the amazing people who have reached out…

EXCLUSIVE: John Le Carré spy drama The Night Manager is moving closer towards a second series after signing up-and-coming British writer Matthew Orton to pen The Ink Factory-produced series. I hear that Orton, who has penned a number of feature films for MGM and Fox, is writing new episodes of the BBC and AMC…