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EXCLUSIVE: UK production industry veteran Jago Lee has joined forces with former Goldman Sachs banker John Fothergill to launch a transatlantic ‘audio-first’ factual production company focusing on turning podcasts into boxset TV. Nerd TV founder Lee and Fothergill have opened Telltale, which is unveiled with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Sir Lenny Henry's Banijay-backed indie Douglas Road Productions is to spotlight Caribbean culture in the UK in an upcoming BBC2 arts documentary. Deadline hears production will commence next month in London on the show, which does not yet have a title. Commissioned out of Factual/Arts Director Patrick…

Banijay UK is launching a scripted label led by Intergalactic and Good Karma Hospital producer Iona Vrolyk. Vrolyk, who has been a development exec for Banijay-owned Peaky Blinders producer Tiger Aspect since 2013, will launch Double Dutch with immediate effect. The label is targeting popular, character-led returning…

ITV has decided to drop the final episode of Viewpoint after The Guardian published bombshell allegations about the show’s leading man, Noel Clarke. The final episode in the five-part series was due to broadcast on Friday night. An ITV spokesperson said: "ITV has a zero tolerance policy to bullying, harassment and…

Lenny Henry, the British comedian, actor and diversity campaigner, is collaborating with A Very English Scandal scribe Russell T Davies on a deeply personal ITV drama series inspired by his mother’s move from Jamaica to the UK in the 1950s. Henry’s Douglas Road Productions and Tiger Aspect — both part of the Banijay…

Damian Kavanagh, the managing director of Peaky Blinders and Netflix’s Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father producer Tiger Aspect, is stepping down after nearly two years. Kavanagh joined Tiger Aspect in 2019 after a spell running BBC Three, where he commissioned shows including Fleabag. His departure follows Tiger…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning Fleabag director Harry Bradbeer has co-created a Rear Window-esque crime drama with Manhunt writer Ed Whitmore for ITV. The pair have devised five-part thriller Viewpoint from Ripper Street producer Tiger Aspect, ordered to series by the British commercial broadcaster. The drama follows a…

Endemol Shine-owned UK producer Tiger Aspect has hired former BBC comedy exec and Wrong Mans producer Myfanwy Moore to bolster its laughing business. The move is the first major hire for the company, which makes series including Jack Whitehall's Bounty Hunters for Sky, since it appointed former BBC Three chief Damian…

Damian Kavanagh, who is Controller of BBC Three, has been named Managing Director of Peaky Blinders co-producer Tiger Aspect. He leaves the BBC after four years in charge of the youth-skewing broadcaster, which was moved online in 2016. This follows the departure of Ben Cavey to Netflix's comedy team in LA earlier…

Peaky Blinders is set to get even bigger after the BBC moved the period gangster thriller from BBC Two to BBC One. The scheduling move will likely mean that Steven Knight's drama, centered around the Shelby crime family, will add to the 3.6M audience that tuned in for the finale of season four. That season was the…

Titanic star Billy Zane and The Hour's Miranda Richardson have joined Sky's Fast and the Furious-style drama Curfew. The pair will be joined by The Crown star Harriet Walter and Terminator and Aliens actor Michael Biehn alongside the previously announced Game of Thrones star Sean Bean and Roots star Malachi Kirby in…

Discovery's US supernatural series Paranormal Lockdown is being remade in the UK after the factual broadcaster ramped up its originals for free-to-air station Quest Red. The broadcaster has ordered Paranormal Lockdown UK from US producer Groff Entertainment, starring Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman as they conduct…