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Wiip, the studio behind series such as HBO's Mare of Easttown and Apple's Dickinson, has secured further investment. The company, run by former ABC boss Paul Lee, has received additional investment from private equity company Atwater Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Atwater Capital first invested in the…

Will Forte is set to star in Netflix’s Bodkin (w/t), from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground productions, and wiip. Bodkin (w/t) is Higher Ground’s first scripted drama series at Netflix under the company’s overall deal with the streamer. Siobhan Cullen (The Dry), Robyn Cara (Trying), David Wilmot (Station Eleve…

EXCLUSIVE: McFarlane Films is partnering with wiip and Warner Bros. Discovery’s Rooster Teeth Studios to develop RAW10, an adult animated series from creator Dan Dominguez (Gen: Lock), inspired by McFarlane Toys’ eponymous series of action figures. The RAW10 toyline consists of cybernetically enhanced animals, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Gillian Robespierre (Obvious Child, Landline) and Mathilde Dratwa (Milk and Gall) have been tapped to executive produce and pen the adaptation for Separation Anxiety, a limited series based on Laura Zigman’s bestselling novel, which has Julianne Nicholson attached to star and executive produce. Robespierre…

EXCLUSIVE: On Valentine's Day, Dickinson producer wiip has found its next love story. The company has struck a deal to adapt Naomi Shah's hit romantic comedy podcast Meet Cute as a television series. Meet Cute has produced over 400 romantic comedies as original 15-minute scripted audio episodes and has a global…

Embattled tech giant Facebook is the focus of a scripted drama series titled Doomsday Machine. Claire Foy, coming off her second Emmy win for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, is set to star as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the project, from Anonymous Content (Spotlight, Mr. Robot) and wiip (Mare of Easttown…

EXCLUSIVE: Epix is developing Brother From Another, a true crime docuseries about the 2015 murder of Florida physician Teresa Sievers, from Served Like a Girl director Lysa Heslov, George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse TV and wiip. Lysa Heslov directs and executive produces the docuseries, which recounts the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Lee’s independent studio wiip (Mare of Easttown) has optioned the rights to Gary M. Pomerantz’s bestselling nonfiction book Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and The Making of Atlanta to adapt for television. In Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, Pomerantz traces five…

Wiip, the independent studio behind HBO sensation Mare of Easttown, is partnering with director-producer Todd McFarlane to develop Sam and Twitch, a drama series based on characters from his acclaimed Spawn comic franchise. The project will specifically center on detectives Sam Burke and "Twitch" Williams, the two…

CAA has sold a majority stake in Wiip, the producer behind HBO's Mare of Easttown and Apple's Dickinson, to Korean company JTBC Studios. It marks the first sale of an agency-backed studio after CAA and the other agencies agreed to end their standoff with the WGA and sell a majority interest in their content…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off their collaboration on the HBO limited series Mare of Easttown, Julianne Nicholson and Wiip have reteamed for a new series project. The independent studio has optioned the rights to author Laura Zigman's bestselling novel Separation Anxiety, to develop as a premium TV series headlined by…

EXCLUSIVE: Former ABC chief Paul Lee's independent studio wiip is developing a TV series exploring the teenage years of Agatha Christie, the iconic British crime writer behind genre-defining characters including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Wiip has enlisted UK writers Rebecca Pollock and Kas Graham, who penned Ruth…