Noah Jupe, who is starring opposite Michael Douglas in the Apple TV+ Benjamin Franklin biopic, is leading a TV drama adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ cult classic Engleby.
Jupe will play the titular character, an enigmatic outsider who graduates from 1970s campus life to 1980s Fleet Street and beyond – haunted all the while by an unsolved mystery involving a friend and fellow student during their university days. The six-part drama is described as a “quintessential British murder mystery meets acute psychological character study, with a healthy dose of dark wit.”
Michael Keillor, who is directing the upcoming BBC/Netflix drama on the Lockerbie disaster, is directing, and Channel 4-backed production outfit Freedom Scripted is producing. No network is attached as of yet. Stage and screenwriters Ryan Craig and Jess Ruston are penning the series, with Freedom Scripted’s MD Mike Ellen executive producing.
Jupe will play the titular character, an enigmatic outsider who graduates from 1970s campus life to 1980s Fleet Street and beyond – haunted all the while by an unsolved mystery involving a friend and fellow student during their university days. The six-part drama is described as a “quintessential British murder mystery meets acute psychological character study, with a healthy dose of dark wit.”
Michael Keillor, who is directing the upcoming BBC/Netflix drama on the Lockerbie disaster, is directing, and Channel 4-backed production outfit Freedom Scripted is producing. No network is attached as of yet. Stage and screenwriters Ryan Craig and Jess Ruston are penning the series, with Freedom Scripted’s MD Mike Ellen executive producing.
- 4/10/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Paramount Combines Streamers Pluto & My5 In UK
Paramount is to combine its AVoD platform Pluto TV with BVoD My5 in the UK. In a move that could be the precursor to the breaking down of barriers between AVoD and BVoD, the new streamer will launch in the market in the second half of next year, with more details coming in the next few months. The platform will combine My5’s collection of Paramount UK network Channel 5’s content such as All Creatures Great and Small with Pluto, which carries numerous Fast Channels. Pluto has recently expanded annual revenue beyond $1B, according to Paramount, and is available in 35 markets. Fast once again dominated much of the chatter at Mipcom Cannes and Paramount Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Business Development Officer Jeff Shultz spoke at the confab’s now-annual Fast Summit. “As we look ahead to an IP-delivered future, this is...
Paramount is to combine its AVoD platform Pluto TV with BVoD My5 in the UK. In a move that could be the precursor to the breaking down of barriers between AVoD and BVoD, the new streamer will launch in the market in the second half of next year, with more details coming in the next few months. The platform will combine My5’s collection of Paramount UK network Channel 5’s content such as All Creatures Great and Small with Pluto, which carries numerous Fast Channels. Pluto has recently expanded annual revenue beyond $1B, according to Paramount, and is available in 35 markets. Fast once again dominated much of the chatter at Mipcom Cannes and Paramount Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Business Development Officer Jeff Shultz spoke at the confab’s now-annual Fast Summit. “As we look ahead to an IP-delivered future, this is...
- 11/1/2023
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
David Kane, lead writer on the BBC’s Shetland, is developing Denise Mina’s Morrow book series into a multi-season TV show.
Set in Glasgow, Morrow, which consists of five books, follows DS Alex Morrow, a formidable detective who can’t face talking to her husband or bear to sleep in the family home following a recent trauma. As she investigates a crime with partner Bannerman for season one titled Still Midnight, questions arise about whether their ambitious Machiavellian boss McKechnie has their backs.
Morrow doesn’t have a broadcaster attached yet but Kane envisages it running for multiple seasons. He is the lead writer on hit Scottish BBC series Shetland, which has run for seven seasons and for which he has been nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award.
Kane and Mina are exec producing Morrow, having combined on BBC drama cult hit The Field of Blood, which starred Peter Capaldi...
Set in Glasgow, Morrow, which consists of five books, follows DS Alex Morrow, a formidable detective who can’t face talking to her husband or bear to sleep in the family home following a recent trauma. As she investigates a crime with partner Bannerman for season one titled Still Midnight, questions arise about whether their ambitious Machiavellian boss McKechnie has their backs.
Morrow doesn’t have a broadcaster attached yet but Kane envisages it running for multiple seasons. He is the lead writer on hit Scottish BBC series Shetland, which has run for seven seasons and for which he has been nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award.
Kane and Mina are exec producing Morrow, having combined on BBC drama cult hit The Field of Blood, which starred Peter Capaldi...
- 3/8/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival is returning for its 76th edition following financial difficulties.
Last October it was revealed the Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), which produces the festival, had appointed administrators, leaving the future of the festival in doubt.
Today the festival said it would be returning for a special one year-iteration as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, which runs from Aug. 18-23.
The festival program will be led by its new director Kate Taylor, who takes over from Kristy Matheson. Matheson was today unveiled as the new director of the BFI London Film Festival.
“Attending first as audience member, then as film worker, my experience of Edinburgh International Film Festival has always been of a place that sparks inspiring conversations about film, and over the past few months it has been nourishing to hear the stories of many people – filmmakers, audience and industry who hold this festival dear,...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival is returning for its 76th edition following financial difficulties.
Last October it was revealed the Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), which produces the festival, had appointed administrators, leaving the future of the festival in doubt.
Today the festival said it would be returning for a special one year-iteration as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, which runs from Aug. 18-23.
The festival program will be led by its new director Kate Taylor, who takes over from Kristy Matheson. Matheson was today unveiled as the new director of the BFI London Film Festival.
“Attending first as audience member, then as film worker, my experience of Edinburgh International Film Festival has always been of a place that sparks inspiring conversations about film, and over the past few months it has been nourishing to hear the stories of many people – filmmakers, audience and industry who hold this festival dear,...
- 3/8/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix Shows To Be Preserved In BFI Archive
Netflix has become the first streamer to have its TV shows and films preserved in the BFI national archive collection. The likes of Bridgerton, Heartstopper an The Dig will be digitally preserved and shown to people for generations to come. A number of broadcasters and studios already have their projects preserved in the archive. The move comes as Netflix celebrates its 10th anniversary in the UK. Creative Industries Minister Julia Lopez visited the archive lsat week and praised how Netflix is “beginning to work with the BFI to protect content being made for digital channels.” Anna Mallett, Netflix Vice President, Production, Emea, UK and Apac, called the moment “historical.”
Channel 4 Indie Freedom Scripted To Adapt Lucy Holden Memoir
Channel 4-backed production company Freedom Scripted is adapting Lucy Holden’s memoir Lucid into a TV series. The Glasgow company, which recently became...
Netflix has become the first streamer to have its TV shows and films preserved in the BFI national archive collection. The likes of Bridgerton, Heartstopper an The Dig will be digitally preserved and shown to people for generations to come. A number of broadcasters and studios already have their projects preserved in the archive. The move comes as Netflix celebrates its 10th anniversary in the UK. Creative Industries Minister Julia Lopez visited the archive lsat week and praised how Netflix is “beginning to work with the BFI to protect content being made for digital channels.” Anna Mallett, Netflix Vice President, Production, Emea, UK and Apac, called the moment “historical.”
Channel 4 Indie Freedom Scripted To Adapt Lucy Holden Memoir
Channel 4-backed production company Freedom Scripted is adapting Lucy Holden’s memoir Lucid into a TV series. The Glasgow company, which recently became...
- 10/31/2022
- by Max Goldbart, Zac Ntim and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Postcard Records, the influential indie record label behind bands including Orange Juice and Aztec Camera is the basis for a feature film from new Scottish producer Freedom, which has struck a development and production deal with BBC Studios.
Freedom is developing a film based on Simon Goddard’s book Simply Thrilled, which charts the “preposterous story” of the short lived but seminal Scottish label.
It one of a number of projects for the fledgling firm, which was set up by former BBC Drama, World Productions and Stv development executive Mike Ellen. He previously ran the scripted slate at Amy indie On The Corner and produced Scottish soap River City for two years.
The company will be supported by BBC Studios’ production, business, commercial affairs and distribution teams, while the international division BBC Studios will also have a first look on distribution titles.
Ellen is also working on a four-part drama...
Freedom is developing a film based on Simon Goddard’s book Simply Thrilled, which charts the “preposterous story” of the short lived but seminal Scottish label.
It one of a number of projects for the fledgling firm, which was set up by former BBC Drama, World Productions and Stv development executive Mike Ellen. He previously ran the scripted slate at Amy indie On The Corner and produced Scottish soap River City for two years.
The company will be supported by BBC Studios’ production, business, commercial affairs and distribution teams, while the international division BBC Studios will also have a first look on distribution titles.
Ellen is also working on a four-part drama...
- 8/22/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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