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EXCLUSIVE: George Orwell’s iconic dystopian story 1984 is to become a television series after former ABC chief Paul Lee’s independent studio wiip optioned the rights to Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s 2013 stage show of the same name. There have been a number of attempts to adapt 1984 for a contemporary screen…

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Rierson has left independent TV studio wiip, where he was Head of Business & Operations, to join another indie, Miramax. Rierson has been named EVP Global Television Business and Legal Affairs for Miramax, which has been ramping up its TV production operating under new Head of Worldwide Television Marc…

EXCLUSIVE: Fulwell 73 has secured the rights to turn Helen Cresswell's young adult novel Moondial into an ambitious time travel drama after the book inspired a popular BBC series of the same name in 1988. The James Corden-backed company will team with Matt Lopez, who wrote Nicolas Cage starrer The Sorcerer's Apprentice…

Adults, Emma Jane Unsworth's follow-up novel to Animals, is set to be adapted for television after Playground and wiip partnered to option the screen rights. The Howards End and Wolf Hall producer, run by Colin Callender, and the Dickinson studio, run by Paul Lee, are to adapt the series with Unsworth, Callender, Lee…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie studio wiip has optioned the rights to New York Times bestselling author A.J. Baimes’ book The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World for development as a limited series executive produced by Dylan Clark (The Batman, War for the Planet of the Apes). Scott Bloom…

Snowfall co-creator Eric Amadio has teamed up with pop group The Chainsmokers and professional skateboarder Nyjah Huston on skateboarding drama Hardflip for Quibi. The short-form digital platform, which launches on April 6, is working with wiip and Kick the Habit Productions, the production company set up by…

EXCLUSIVE: Julianne Nicholson (Monos), Jean Smart (Life Itself), Angourie Rice (Black Mirror), Evan Peters (I Am Woman), Cailee Spaeny (On the Basis of Sex) and David Denman (The Replacements) have been cast opposite Kate Winslet in HBO’s Mare of Easttown, a limited series from Brad Inglesby and Paul Lee’s wiip. The…

Respected TV development executive Jamila Hunter is in talks to join Wiip, sources said. At the independent studio backed by CAA, the former ABC head of comedy would be reunited with former ABC Entertainment Group President Paul Lee, who runs the company, and former ABC Studios head of drama Nne Ebong, who is a senior…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off his starring role in Gotham, Donal Logue has been tapped as the male lead opposite Anna Kendrick in Dummy, a comedy for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form video platform Quibi from Deadbeat co-creator Cody Heller and independent studio wiip. Created by Heller, Dummy is a buddy comedy…

EXCLUSIVE: Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick is set to topline and executive produce Dummy , a comedy for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform Quibi from Deadbeat co-creator Cody Heller and independent studio wiip. Tricia Brock (The Walking Dead) has come on board to direct the project…

Facebook Watch has given a series commitment with penalty to a scripted drama from international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, Memphis Beat creators Liz Garcia and Josh Harto, and Paul Lee’s recently launched independent studio, wiip. Written by Garcia and Harto, the as-yet untitled project follows a high school…

In a competitive situation, Paul Lee’s recently launched independent studio wiip has acquired the rights to Gimlet Media's new scripted podcast, Sandra, to develop for premium television. Gimlet Pictures (Homecoming), the TV and film production arm of Gimlet, will produce the series, its first project under the banner…