Latest in Tiger Aspect

‘PhoneShop’ Creator Phil Bowker Strikes Deal With Tiger Aspect Channel 4’s PhoneShop creator Phil Bowker has struck an exclusive first-look deal with Banijay label Tiger Aspect. Meanwhile, Tiger has signed four people to its comedy development team. Bowker will develop a slate of scripted projects as…

EXCLUSIVE: Banijay UK CEO Patrick Holland is focusing on M&A and talent, and is rewarding high-performing labels with extra investment as he enters his first Mipcom Cannes in the new role. In his first interview since replacing Peter Salmon in May, Holland told Deadline he is keen to look into…

Epix has ordered an eight-episode second season of historical drama Domina. The renewal follows a deal between Epix and global distributor Banijay Rights for a second season of the drama produced by Tiger Aspect, in association with Epix Studios. Created by Simon Burke (Fortitude, Strike Back), Domina takes place…

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…