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Welcome to Deadline's International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we're speaking with Working Title Television's Surian Fletcher-Jones, the executive producer who is responsible for bringi…

Working Title Television has nabbed rights to Stacey Abrams' new novel While Justice Sleeps. The NBCUniversal-backed producer won the rights in a competitive battle and will adapt it as a television series. The legal thriller, which is being published today by Penguin Random House, follows a Supreme Court justice…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is heading back to the Dickensian-era for its latest family comedy. The British public broadcaster has ordered Dodger from NBCUniversal International Studios. The series is a family adventure comedy set in 1830s Dickensian London and tells the story of the Artful Dodger, the infamous pickpocket…

Victor Garber is set for a recurring role in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, Netflix’s 10-episode limited series revival. Based on the books by Armistead Maupin, this next chapter – Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City – follows Mary Ann (Laura Linney), who returns home to San Francisco and is reunited with her…

Sin City star Eva Green and The Knick's Eve Hewson are to star in BBC Two adaptation of The Luminaries. The pair will star in the six-part drama, produced by Working Title Television alongside New Zealand actor Marton Csokas, who starred in Lord of the Rings. Green plays Lydia Wells, while Hewson stars as Anna…

NBCUniversal International Studios has appointed Charlotte Bloxham to the newly created role of Head of Production. Based in London, Bloxham will be responsible for managing scripted production across the company's UK-based entities that include Heyday Television, Working Title Television and NBCUniversal…

In Working Title Television’s first development season since Andrew Stearn joined as president, the company — a joint venture with NBCU International Studios, which is overseen by Michael Edelstein, and Working Title Films' Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner — has set up three broadcast drama series projects: an adaptation of…

Working Title Television has set a six-part drama series based on 2013 Man Booker Prize winner The Luminaries at BBC Two. Author Eleanor Catton will adapt her own novel. The period tale of adventure and mystery is set on the Wild West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in the boom years of the 1860s gold rush. It’s…

Working Title Television UK has bolstered its development team with the hires of Surian Fletcher-Jones and Georgina Gordon-Smith. Ex-Channel 4 head of drama development, Fletcher-Jones joins the team as head of development. United Agents' Gordon-Smith has been appointed development executive. At C4, Fletcher-Jones…

As BBC Three moves from being a linear channel to an online-only destination next month, the new service has unveiled a slate of upcoming programming. This includes a six-part drama from Skins writer Jess Brittain and a collaboration with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures on a series of London-set drama shorts. The…