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EXCLUSIVE: Hitman: Agent 47 and The First actress Hannah Ware is to headline Netflix’s soulmate science fiction series The One, which the U.S. streamer plans to premiere on March 12. Ware plays Rebecca, the ambitious and impulsive founding CEO of MatchDNA, a tech company that has designed a DNA test that allows people…

EXCLUSIVE: Set in a dystopian reality in which an unstoppable force turns London’s streets into a deserted wilderness, it’s perhaps fitting for our times that War Of The Worlds will be the first UK television drama series to get cameras rolling in the pandemic era. Hollywood blockbusters Jurassic World and Mission Impo…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Networks Group and France’s Canal+ are set to renew their original drama War Of The Worlds for a second season. Deadline understands that preparation is already well underway for Season 2, which is set to go into production in the UK in spring this year. Producer Urban Myth Films has also set up a…

EXCLUSIVE: Controversial British artist Tracey Emin is getting the urban myths treatment at Sky. The Comcast-owned broadcaster has ordered on a comedy drama about Emin's infamous messy bed artwork with Inside No. 9 and The Windsors star Morgana Robinson (below) playing Emin. One-off special In Bed with Tracey Emin…

Fox Networks Group Europe and Africa is taking on a reboot of War of the Worlds as its second original commission. The international arm of the U.S. broadcaster has partnered with France's Canal+ and Atlantis producer Urban Myth Films on the eight-part remake, which will be set in the present day and tell the story of…

European major Studiocanal is pushing deeper into television production, forming partnerships with three European indies. It has acquired minority stakes in the UK's SunnyMarch, co-founded by Benedict Cumberbatch; Urban Myth Films, also based in the UK; and Spain's Bambu. The move is part of a drive to grow TV…