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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: ITV is in advanced development on a sweeping adaptation of Lindsey Davis’ Falco Roman private detective novels after the project was originally in with the BBC. Deadline can reveal that Mammoth Screen will make the series, and the World On Fire and War Of The Worlds producer is in negotiations with ITV over…

The BBC has unveiled the first trailer for its reboot of H.G. Wells' classic War of the Worlds starring The Big Short's Rafe Spall and Poldark's Eleanor Tomlinson. The pair star in the BBC One series, which is produced by ITV-owned Mammoth Screen, alongside Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle and Sherlock's Rupert…

Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary) and Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) will lead the ensemble cast in Urban Myth Film's TV series reimagining of classic sci-fi tale War Of The Worlds. Also starring will be Léa Drucker (Le Bureau Des Légendes), Natasha Little (Silent Witness), Daisy Edgar Jones (Cold Feet), Stéphane…

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Kinnear is in talks to star in Fox Networks Group's European remake of War of the Worlds. I hear that the actor, who was most recently in the sixth season of Netflix's House of Cards, has been circling the script, which was written by Misfits' Howard Overman, but that a deal has not yet been…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: MTV is developing War of the Worlds, a contemporary drama series based on H. G. Wells’ classic alien invasion novel. The adaptation will be written by former Teen Wolf writer Andrew Cochran and executive produced by the hit MTV series’ creator/executive producer Jeff Davis as well as The Firm’s Josh Barry…