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“Peaky Binders” favorite Stephen Graham stars in the Netflix series “Adolescence” as a man whose world is shattered when his 13-year-old son (newcomer Owen Cooper) is accused of murdering a female classmate.

Graham wrote ad co-created the series with Jack Thorne, whose previous work includes the 2022 sports drama “The Swimmers” and the 2024 biopic “Joy.”

Like the BAFTA-nominated feature “Boiling Point,” which also starred Graham, the series is filmed in a continuous one-shot style by Philip Barantini.

Here’s who plays who in the cast, which also includes co-stars Mark Stanley, Jo Hartley and newcomer Amélie Pease.

Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in Adolescence. (Credit: Netflix) Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller

13-year-old Jamie is accused of the horrific murder of a classmate. This is Cooper’s debut role.

Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller in Adolescence (Credit: Netflix) Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller

Graham, who also co-created the series, stars as Jamie’s father.

“There’s an epidemic of knife crime amongst young, young lads … up and down the country.” That’s how British star Stephen Graham (Bodies, Boiling Point) describes the origins of the idea for his Netflix crime drama Adolescence, which premieres on Thursday, during a recent Next on Netflix event in London. The show, unfolding in real-time, consists of four episodes that are each filmed in one continuous shot.

The story starts with 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) being arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school. Co-creator and co-writer Graham stars as his father Eddie. Rounding out the cast are Ashley Walters (Top Boy) as Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe, Erin Doherty (The Crown) as Briony Ariston, the clinical psychologist assigned to Jamie’s case, Christine Tremarco (The Responder) as Jamie’s mother Manda, Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones), Mark Stanley (Happy Valley), Jo Hartley (After Life) and Amélie Pease.

Stars: Karl Kennedy-Williams, Param Patel, Judson Vaughan, Dani Thompson | Written and Directed by Richard Antony Dunford

Low-budget horror is often a subgenre in itself that many people seem to love – the latest big hit, The Terrifier franchise, very much started off as this – but low-budget sci-fi doesn’t quite have the same reputation. This is a little bit of a shame because I have found that writers and directors often come up with some really clever and special ideas when they have a limited budget for their science fiction movies.

It’s obvious from the start that Good Neighbours has a low budget and these limitations may hold it back a little but it still shouldn’t put you off. A woman’s first interaction with her new neighbours is an unusual one, as when she calls around to introduce herself, she finds they answer the door while completely naked.

The Responder, the BBC police drama starring Martin Freeman, has reportedly been put on hold after two series, although a future return hasn’t been ruled out. The show, which premiered in January 2022, was a hit, drawing in 9.6 million viewers for its first episode. Here’s the Lowdown: According to a source (speaking to The […]

The Responder Put on Ice: Martin Freeman Police Drama Shelved, For Now...

The British mockumentary sitcom The Office remains one of the most influential comedies ever produced. Not only did the series enjoy a stellar three-season run which culminated in an 8.5 IMDb rating, it also inspired a range of spinoffs, including the Steve Carrell version.

Though it only lasted for two seasons (2001–2003), the show catapulted its cast to stardom, and produced a range of superstars. Over two decades later, let’s take a look at where the actors are in 2025.

Ewen MacIntosh (Keith Bishop) Ewen MacIntosh in The Office. | BBC

Ewen MacIntosh, who played the deadpan and beloved accountant Keith Bishop, sadly passed away at the age of 50. His death was confirmed on February 21, 2024, leading to an outpouring of tributes from fans and co-stars. Ricky Gervais described him as an “absolute original.” (via Standard)

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The “For All Mankind” spinoff “Star City” has made three new additions to its main cast, Variety has learned.

Adam Nagaitis, Josef Davies, and Ruby Ashbourne Serkis have all joined the upcoming Apple TV+ alt-history drama.

The trio will appear alongside previously announced cast members Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin, Solly McLeod, Agnes O’Casey and Alice Englert.

The show was originally announced in April 2024. As previously reported, the series will tell the story the alternative history of the space race like “For All Mankind,” but this time from the Soviet Union perspective.

The official description for the show says it is “a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race – when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts,...

Adam Nagaitis, Josef Davies and Ruby Ashbourne Serkis are set as series regulars in Star City, rounding out the cast of Apple’s upcoming For All Mankind spinoff. They join previously announced Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin, Solly McLeod, Agnes O’Casey and Alice Englert.

Created by Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore, Star City is another alt-history retelling of the space race – when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.

Nagaitis will play Valya, a highly respected cosmonaut within the Soviet Space program.

Davies portrays Sergei,...

Exclusive: Channel 4 has given the greenlight to Season 2 of Big Mood starring Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan.

Big Mood follows Maggie, played by Coughlan, a 30-year-old writer with bipolar disorder. Her best friend is Eddie, played by It’s a Sin star Lydia West. At the start of Season 2, it’s been a year since Maggie and Eddie last saw each other, without any contact between them. When Eddie suddenly returns for a wedding, she isn’t alone – Maggie has competition, in the form of an infuriatingly positive spiritual healer named Whitney. Maggie needs to work out if her special brand of chaos can find space in Eddie’s new life, or she fears she will lose her forever.

The first series from writer Camilla Whitehill was Channel 4’s most-watched new comedy launch since Derry Girls, according to the network. It reviewed well and attracted plaudits for its depiction of bipolar disorder on screen.

Today, BritBox announced the greenlight of new Original series A Taste for Murder. The six-part crime procedural produced by Eagle Eye Drama and in association with ITV Studios, commences filming on location in Croatia and later in Italy. Set amidst the steep cliffs and fast tides of Capri, A Taste for Murder features classic Italian cuisine as the main ingredient to each episode’s central murder mystery, revealing the power of food to foster connection, community, and healing after devastating loss.

Warren Brown (The Responder, Trigger Point, Ten Pound Poms) stars as Dci Joe Mottram, a star detective with the Metropolitan police. After a personal tragedy, he retreats to Capri with his daughter to stay with his Italian in-laws for the summer. Unsure how to face his own grief, let alone help heal his daughter’s broken heart, he quickly becomes immersed in the local murder cases on the island.

BritBox has given the green light to the new Original series A Taste for Murder, a six-part crime procedural produced by Eagle Eye Drama in association with ITV Studios. The series has started filming on location in Croatia and will also shoot in Italy.

Set amidst the cliffs and fast tides of Capri, A Taste for Murder features classic Italian cuisine as the main ingredient in each episode’s central murder mystery, revealing the power of food to foster connection, community, and healing after devastating loss.

Photo Credit: BritBox/Nikola Predovic

Warren Brown stars as Dci Joe Mottram, a star detective with the Metropolitan Police. After a personal tragedy, he retreats to Capri with his daughter to stay with his Italian in-laws for the summer.

Unsure how to face his grief, let alone help heal his daughter’s broken heart, he quickly becomes immersed in the local murder cases on the island.

BritBox International is serving up a crime procedural series using classic Italian cuisine as the basis for each episode’s murder mystery.

A Taste for Murder will star BAFTA-winning Downton Abbey actor Phyllis Logan alongside Warren Brown (The Responder) and Cristiana Dell’Anna (Gomorrah).

Each episode of the series will feature a murder mystery connected in some way to Italian cuisine. Brown is Dci Joe Mottram, a star detective with the Metropolitan police who, after a personal tragedy, retreats to Capri in Italy with his daughter to stay with his Italian in-laws for the summer. Logan is Elena Da Vinale, the witty matriarch of the family, front-of-house manager of the family restaurant, and mother to Dci Joe’s late wife. Gomorrah star Dell’Anna plays Inspector Lara Sarrancino, an ambitious and no-nonsense detective with the State Police in Naples. Beau Gadsdon (The Crown) is Joe’s daughter Angelica.

Rounding out the...

Beta Film has taken world sales rights to drama series “Other People’s Money,” which will make its world premiere next month in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.

The series centers on Europe’s biggest tax fraud ever. It tells the story of how a criminal network of megarich investors, bankers and lawyers stole €146 billion from European taxpayers.

The showrunner and creator is Jan Schomburg. The producers are Michael Polle at X Filme Creative Pool (“Babylon Berlin”), Ole Søndberg (“Millennium” trilogy) at True Content Entertainment, and Epo-Film. The show is backed by broadcasters Zdf, Dr and New8, which is a group of public broadcasters from northern and western Europe.

“Other People’s Money” is the latest addition to Beta’s Berlinale lineup, headed by the Berlinale’s opening film “The Light” by Tom Tykwer, starring Lars Eidinger and the Panorama world premiere “Cicadas” by Ina Weisse (“The Audition”), starring Nina Hoss.

“Other People’s Money...

Exclusive: Mia McKenna-Bruce, recipient of last year’s BAFTA Rising Star laureate and star of Molly Manning Walker’s breakthrough hit How to Have Sex, has joined Claire Denis’ new film The Cry of the Guards. She replaces the previously announced Riley Keough.

The fast-rising British actress travels to the Republic of Senegal in West Africa next week for principal photography on the Denis movie with longtime attached actors Matt Dillon and Isaach De Bankolé, who starred in Denis’ 1990 masterwork No Fear, No Die and her films Chocolat and White Material, and more recently in The Brutalist and Black Panther.

Denis returns to the continent that defined her childhood to make The Cry of the Guards, which during development was also known as The Fence — and there’s chatter about it reverting back to that title — to film the intense drama focusing...

“Game of Thrones” star Natalie Dormer is set to lead new Celyn Jones thriller series “Minotaur” alongside “Call My Agent’s” Assaad Bouab.

Jones writes and directs the six-part Welsh/French drama, which he created and will be produced via Mad As Birds (“The Almond and The Seahorse”), the prod-co he runs with Sean Marley. Charles Sturridge (“Marcella”) will also direct.

“Minotaur” follows Luc (Bouab), a cold-blooded killer who escapes Paris’s criminal underbelly for the more prosaic North Wales. There he meets Angel (Dormer) who lives in a struggling community she feels she can never belong to, raising her son Joe alone.

“Whilst fighting addiction, Angel gravitates towards the mysterious Luc,” reads the logline. “But as an initial attraction grows stronger and promises a fresh start for both, the past looks determined to drag Luc back into a dangerous underworld. Where does all the evil go? Know your shadows and beware the Minotaur.

Exclusive: The creator of Prime Video’s The Rig has detailed how he wanted to strike a balance between penning an entertaining drama and tackling existential debates around climate change.

David Macpherson has expanded the second season of the UK hit beyond the confines of Season 1’s oil rig, which he described as akin to Alien and its expansion for sequel Aliens in the 1980s.

The series from the former environmental policy worker tackles numerous themes and looks to the harm our planet is experiencing today, but Macpherson stressed that he is cognisant of the need to entertain.

“Our show is at heart a big piece of entertainment and being entertaining should come first,” he told Deadline. “It’s not about telling people what to think it’s about asking questions and opening up debates.”

While he said that TV creators don’t necessarily have a “responsibility to educate,” he...

Producing an independent film is a challenge at the best of times: Beirut-based producer Georges Schoucair has shot two tightly financed indie features and helped launch a new arthouse cinema this year against the backdrop of war.

The veteran Lebanese producer, whose credits include Memory Box and Costa Brava, Lebanon, has been at the Red Sea Film Festival this past week as a member of the in-development jury for its Red Sea Souk project market.

He arrived from Morocco’s Marrakech Film Festival, where he had been participating in its Atlas Workshops project market with Cyril Aris’ It’s A Sad And Beautiful World, where it won a €10,000 post-production prize.

Mixing social drama and romantic comedy, the film follows an unlikely couple over three decades as they fall in love against the odds and then confront the challenges of parenthood against the backdrop of conflict and crisis-ridden Beirut, amid disputes...

Liverpool, the second most filmed in UK location after London, aims to clean up production with the creation of a network of ‘plug and play’ facilities planned for across the city centre.

These facilities consist of feeder pillars that supply 100% renewable energy through the UK’s electricity grid, and can also be used to charge large scale batteries, that can in turn be taken for use in more remote locations.

This network could transform film and TV shoots along with live events, creating a cleanerproduction zone, with the hope that film crews and broadcasters will be able to plug straight into the pillars,...

Here’s the first glimpses of Adolescence, the Netflix crime drama series starring Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters and Erin Doherty.

The four-part series — from Graham and his regular collaborators Jack Thorne Philip Barantini — is notable for each episode being shot in one continuous take as the action unfolds in real time. It’s due to launch on Netflix next year and counts Brad Pitt among its exec producers. You can see the images above and below.

Adolescence will mark a first role for Owen Cooper, who plays a 13-year-old teenage boy who is arrested for the murder of a girl at his school. Graham (Boiling Point) plays his father and ‘appropriate’ adult, while Walters (Top Boy) plays a detective inspector and Soherty (The Crown) a clinical psychologist assigned to the case.

Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones), Christine Tremarco (The Responder), Mark Stanley (Happy Valley), Jo Hartley (After Life) and newcomer Amélie Pease also star.

British crime dramas, comedies, mysteries and procedurals are becoming more and more popular. And platforms like Britbox make these series more accessible to people from all around the world. Britbox has some of the best and most popular British TV shows, from Sherlock to Line of Duty. There are also some underrated cult classics available on Britbox, like The It Crowd, which almost had an American remake.

British TV series are popular because of their character-driven narrative and limited episodes, which gives the storylines enough time to develop without including too many filler episodes. Many British TV series are also based on books by popular authors like Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Peter James. And while there are many great TV series on Britbox, the best shows will captivate audiences from start to finish.

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The third movie in Netflixs Enola Holmes franchise has received an exciting update. Per Deadline, Philip Barantini has been tapped to direct Enola Holmes 3. The first two Enola Holmes movies, released in 2020 and 2022, are two of Netflixs most successful movie titles. Deadline also reports that the series star Millie Bobby Brown is expected to return for the third film after production wraps on the final season of Stranger Things.

Barantini has directed several movies and TV series, including Boiling Point, Malpractice, and The Responder. He also recently finished a new four-part series for Netflix called Adolescence starring Stephen Graham (Venom: The Last Dance). Legendary Entertainments Mary Parent, Ali Mendes, and Alex Garcia will produce Enola Holmes 3 along with Brown and her production company Pcma Productions. Jake Bongiovi (who is married to Brown) and Isobel Richards will executive produce the movie for Pcma.

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Production has started in Wales on director Jamie Adams’ latest movie, “Let’s Love.” The film brings together a talented ensemble, including Martin Freeman from “The Responder,” Josh Hutcherson from “The Hunger Games,” Malin Akerman from “Watchmen,” and Jess Weixler from “Monsters.”

The relationship-focused comedy follows four movie industry professionals who reunite in Wales. They believe they are attending a fan event celebrating the 10th anniversary of their previous successful collaboration. However, the group discovers their studio contact scheduled them for the wrong month. This unexpected change gives them a chance to develop a new pitch for a sequel to their original film.

The story centers around screenwriter Nigel, played by Freeman, director Andrea portrayed by Akerman, Andrea’s actor husband Jackson played by Hutcherson, and Weixler as Jackson’s former co-star Jess. In searching for fresh ideas, their journey takes them around the beautiful Welsh countryside. This tour eventually...

It was no small feat to get “Saturday Night Live” off the ground at NBC, and as a result, the cast of “Saturday Night” is pretty huge. In many cases, the actors also look eerily similar to the people they’re playing.

Hitting theaters everywhere on Oct. 11 after a limited theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles, Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night” tells the story of the 90 minutes right before the first-ever episode of “SNL.” It’s chaotic and at the time, even Lorne Michaels couldn’t explain what the show was going to be.

Below, you’ll find the cast of “Saturday Night” alongside what their real-life counterparts looked like back then.

Sony/Getty Images Lorne Michaels (Gabriel Labelle)

Lorne Michaels is the creator and, to this day, producer of “Saturday Night Live.” He’s played in “Saturday Night” by Gabriel Labelle, who had his breakout role in Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans.

Starz and BritBox first announced their new bundle in August, and now it’s ready for customers.

The long-awaited combination of Starz and BritBox has finally arrived. The two streamers first announced in August that they would combine to create a new package at a discounted price, and as of Friday, customers are officially able to sign up. Cord-cutters can subscribe to BritBox and Starz together for a price of just $15 which is 25% off the regular price of the two services.

How to Get New BritBox, Starz Streaming Bundle Click here to get the bundle. Click “Get Bundle” and create an account using your email address. Enter your payment information and finish signing up. Get BritBox/Starz Bundle $15 starz.com Sign up for BritBox and Starz together and save 25% off what you’d pay to get the two separately! What Can You Watch with BritBox, Starz Bundle?

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Super-indie Fremantle has made a strategic shift to center premium film productions within its global business model, global drama exec Seb Shorr said this morning during a keynote at Iberseries and Platino Industria in Madrid.

Shorr, joined by Fremantle’s Mexican Head of Scripted Manuel Martí, and Olivia Sleiter, Head of Production at Fremantle Italy, said the company has been on a “journey” from its traditional position as an “entertainment and nonscripted powerhouse” with formats like Idol, Got Talent and The X Factor.

“The TV drama journey at Fremantle was really started seven or eight years ago,” Shorr said. “And while we’ve always done a bit of film, over the last few years, we very much now want that to be a really important part of our portfolio and a major part of our business.”

Key to this transition, Shorr said, is the company’s relationship with talent, which...

The trend of demand for “mainstream” TV series and growth in Fremantle’s film business — thanks to the likes of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, starring Daniel Craig, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Pablo Larraín’s Maria starring Angelina Jolie — were among the key topics of debate for executives from the production giant in Madrid on Wednesday on the second day of the fourth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria.

Seb Shorr, COO, global drama at Fremantle U.K., Olivia Sleiter, head of production, global drama, and Manuel Martí, head of scripted development at Fremantle Latin America appeared during a spotlight panel session.

“We have a good amount, I think now it’s 17,” Sleiter said about Fremantle’s growing film business. “It’s film for cinemas and films for TV as well.” Among others, she mentioned that Element Pictures, in which the firm owns a majority stake, has worked with Yorgos Lanthimos “and is now shooting his next movie.

Sony/Eleventh Hour Signs Deal With Hill 5.14

Sony Pictures Television (Spt) and its UK subsidiary, Eleventh Hour Films, have struck a first-look deal with Hill 5.14, a Black female-led scripted TV label led by Tobi Olujinmi. Eleventh Hour will get a first-look option to co-develop and co-produce TV projects from the Hill 5.14 slate, with Spt acting as distributor. Olujinmi launched Hill 5.14 in late 2022, having previously worked as Eleventh Hour, and has gone on to work with writers such as Phoebe Okeowo (The Power), Bella Heesom (Sex Education), Victoria Asare-Archer (Missing You) and Thara Poopla (Sex Education) and on-screen talent such as Weruche Opia (I May Destroy You), Adelayo Adebayo (The Responder) and Adjoa Andoh (Bridgerton). “I am beyond thrilled to be working with Sony Pictures and Ehf for the next phase of Hill 5.14’s journey,” said Olujinmi. “It’s the dream team. Their joint expertise, experience and track record of delivering...

Anna Friel, David Threlfall and Anna Maxwell Martin are among the cast of an upcoming BBC single drama from Time writer Jimmy McGovern about grooming and sexual abuse.

Set and filmed in Liverpool, the currently-unnamed drama, per the synoposis, “centres around the Mitchell family, who are dealing with the devastating aftermath of an act of abuse, and the knowledge that it was perpetrated by a member of their own family who, after serving his sentence, has just been released from prison.”

Friel (Marcella, Pushing Daisies), who was BAFTA-nominated for her work in Jimmy McGovern’s Broken, leads the cast alongside Maxwell Martin (Motherland, A Spy Among Friends, Poppy Shakespeare), BAFTA-winner Threlfall (Nightsleeper, Shameless, Housewife 49), Bobby Schofield (Time, Anne, Sas Rogue Heroes), BAFTA-winner and Mark Womack (The Responder, Playing the Field, Moving On). Further casting will be announced in due course.

McGovern’s LA Productions is making the drama, which...

The BBC on Thursday unveiled an original new drama from screenwriter Jimmy McGovern (Time, Cracker, The Street) which will explore “the impact of grooming and sexual abuse on one family.”

Emmy winner Anna Friel (Marcella, Pushing Daisies), who was BAFTA-nominated for her previous work with McGovern in Broken, leads the cast alongside Bobby Schofield (Time, Anne, Sas Rogue Heroes), BAFTA winner Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland, A Spy Among Friends, Poppy Shakespeare), BAFTA winner David Threlfall (Nightsleeper, Shameless, Housewife 49) and Mark Womack (The Responder, Playing the Field, Moving On).

Further casting will be unveiled “in due course,” the BBC said.

Directed by Julia Ford (Showtrial, The Bay, Safe), the as-yet-untitled 90-minute single drama will be made by LA Productions (Broken, Anthony, Care) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One.

“Set and filmed in Liverpool, the fictional drama centers around the Mitchell family who are dealing with the devastating aftermath of an act of abuse,...

Anna Friel and Anna Maxwell Martin are set to star in a new BBC drama from “Time” creator Jimmy McGovern.

The as yet untitled 90-minute drama will explore the themes of grooming and sexual abuse in the context of one family, the Mitchell family, who must grapple with the aftermath of abuse after the perpetrator – a relative – is released from prison.

Bobby Schofield (“Time”), David Threlfall (“Nightsleeper”) and Mark Womack (“The Responder”) star alongside Friel, who is known for her work on “Marcella” and “Pushing Daisies” and “Motherland’s” Maxwell Martin.

More casting is set to be confirmed in due course.

Julia Ford (“Showtrial”) will direct. LA Productions (“Broken”) are producing. Donna Molloy is also a producer. McGovern exec produces alongside Colin McKeown for LA Productions and Nawfal Faizullah and Katherine Bond for the BBC.

McGovern is known for creating a plethora of popular dramas including “Cracker” and the prison series “Time,...

Colin Callender’s Playground will adapt Georges Simenon’s best-selling detective novels “Maigret” into a television series set to air in the U.S. on PBS under the “Masterpiece” banner.

The adaptation of the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret has started production in Budapest. Callender and David Stern will executive produce for Playground.

Benjamin Wainwright will play Maigret and Stefanie Martini stars as Madame Louise Maigret.

“George Simenon’s creation of Jules Maigret holds a firm place in the pantheon of great literary detectives and we are incredibly grateful to our partners ‘Masterpiece,’ Banijay, Ilp and John Simenon for their trust and support as we endeavor to bring a contemporary Maigret to a new, worldwide audience,” Stern said. “Patrick Harbinson’s brilliantly fresh take on this iconic IP is reflective of Playground’s ambition to expand our growing slate of contemporary returning dramas that speak to a global marketplace.

Exclusive: Fremantle’s German sales chief, Maximilian Bolenius, is leaving the Got Talent maker after 14 years.

Bolenius, Fremantle’s Senior Vice President for German-speaking Europe and Israel, has let clients know he is exiting in an email today, we understand. Fremantle confirmed the departure to Deadline in a statement.

“Max Bolenius has decided to leave Fremantle after nearly 15 years in the company,” said Jamie Lynn, Fremantle’s EVP Co-Production & Distribution Emea. “Throughout his tenure Max has been a valued member of our distribution team, forging countless great relationships with his colleagues and clients. We thank him for his many contributions whilst working for Fremantle and sincerely wish him all the best for his future endeavours.”

We understand Lynn’s team will assimilate Bolenius’ duties for the time being, as a succession plan is worked out. Jens Richter is CEO of International and Commercial at the unit, which sells the likes of Got Talent,...

A trio of British TV behemoths have said there are too many production companies as the middle falls out of the market.

Banijay UK boss Patrick Holland, It’s a Sin exec Nicola Shindler and BBC iplayer/channels chief Dan McGolpin all roundly agreed that the amount of work currently in the ether is unsustainable for the number of indies when questioned during this morning’s big panel at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

“You can’t sugarcoat it,” said McGolpin. “There aren’t enough money and hours to keep everyone alive.”

Holland said “in terms of sheer economics there are too many indies for the amount of hours,” while Shindler posited that “there are a lot of talented people who aren’t getting a look in.”

The issue has been perennially debated on Edinburgh panels down the years but during today’s debate it felt particularly stark.

Some of the...

BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in September 2024, which include everything from new BritBox Originals to classic British fare. BritBox is a digital video subscription service offering the largest collection of British TV in the U.S. and Canada.

The September lineup features season two of the hit bomb squad drama Trigger Point, the fifth season of The Bay, and the third season of The Tower. True crime drama Des, starring BAFTA-winner David Tenant, will also be available.

Trigger Point Season 2

BritBox is the leading streaming destination for the best of British television and culture, offering the most comprehensive, must-see collection of British entertainment all in one place. The service provides a pipeline of exceptional storytelling and showcases the depth and breadth of British creativity from across the UK.

BritBox curates a quality selection of classic titles and original commissions across various genres, including dramas, comedies, documentaries,...

The trend of streamers bundling together to increase value and engagement continues.

The Great Bundling Craze is continuing to sweep across the streaming landscape. The biggest streamers in the marketplace like Netflix, Disney+, Max, Hulu, and others have all joined new bundles in 2024, and now smaller streamers are getting in on the trend. As part of its quarterly earnings report on Thursday, Lionsgate Entertainment announced that it was adding its direct-to-consumer service Starz to a new streaming bundle with BritBox, which should make its way to customers by the end of 2024.

Key Details: Lionsgate executives said the new bundle would be available to customers sometime next quarter. The bundle will be sold directly through starz.com There was no official word on how much the combo will end up costing. Save 70% $9.99+ / month starz.com

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The new combination of Starz and BritBox will be available sometime “next quarter.

A new survey found that viewing of British TV shows in the United States grew by a shocking 40% between Q2 of 2023 and Q1 of 2024 on select platforms.

The United Kingdom may be an ocean away from the United States, but video content moves back and forth between the two with ease. An exclusive report from Deadline shows that audiences in the U.S. have registered a new level of interest in British television after strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA in 2023 put a halt to new productions stateside for months. I’ll get into how much viewership for British content rose during the strikes, and which streamers offer the best British TV at the best value below.

Key Details: British series accounted for three of the top five most-watched programs between January and May 2024. Streamers like Netflix and Prime Video have boosted their commissioning of shows outside the United States.

Under the leadership of new CEO Annamaria Morelli, The Apartment — the Fremantle-owned outfit which will attend Venice with three hot titles including Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” — is set to produce the next project by emerging Italian director Carolina Cavalli.

Cavalli – whose first feature “Amanda” went to Venice and Toronto – is set to shoot a follow-up titled “The Kidnapping of Arabella” that will see her reteam with “Amanda” protagonist Benedetta Porcaroli in the lead role.

Similarly to “Amanda” – an absurdist arrested development comedy that traveled widely and garnered critical praise – “The Kidnapping of Arabella” will see Porcaroli play a young female misfit named Holly who “is convinced that she is the wrong version of herself until she meets a 7-year-old girl who makes her change her mind,” according to the film’s provided synopsis.

“I think lonely people who come together to solve a problem have already solved the biggest one,...

Netflix’s House of Guinness has brewed its cast.

James Norton and Jack Gleeson have been named among the cast for Steven Knight-penned Guinness factory drama series.

Joining them are Niamh McCormack, Anthony Boyle (Masters of the Air, Manhunt), Louis Partridge (Pistol, Enola Holmes), Emily Fairn (The Responder, Black Mirror: Demon 79), Fionn O’Shea (Normal People, Dance First), Seamus O’Hara (Blue Lights, An Irish Goodbye), Dervla Kirwan (True Detective: Night Country, Smother), Michael McElhatton (Game of Thrones, The Long Shadow), Danielle Galligan (Shadow and Bone, Obituary), David Wilmot (Station Eleven, Bodkin) and Hilda Fay (The Woman in the Wall, Spilt Milk).

The series, from Banijay UK’s Kudos, is billed as an epic story inspired by The Guinness family, a European dynasty made famous by the drink they brew.

Chris Carson (Martin Freeman) is trying to be better—on and off the job—in The Responder Season 2. But as we see in the first two episodes already streaming on BritBox (two more drop on July 18 and 25), that’s not so easy. He wants a day job to get off the night shift and therefore be able to spend more time with his daughter, but it’s not in the cards. He may have a way to get that, but it means doing something shady for Debs (Amaka Okafor), which only results in him and Rachel (Adelayo Adedayo) becoming entangled in quite the mess and owing the wrong person money; they have to pick up drugs for Jodie (Faye McKeever) for money. So things can only go up for Chris from here … right? TV Insider spoke with Freeman and writer Tony Schumacher ...

The Responder is one of those rare cop dramas that cut to the quick, leaving you in a state of reflective, not entirely unpleasant, unease. It's entirely worth your time. No, it's not a novel concept -- a first responder on the emergency line drags himself from crisis to crisis (of varying scale), nor is it a radical reinvention of the tried and true. It's just a solid slab of TV entertainment that knows its material inside and out.

The hard-pressed police officer pushed to the brink of what could reasonably be expected of anyone -- let alone the average citizen who rarely, if ever, gets into adrenalized circumstances on a similar par -- is a character type that we've grown to love as a movie and TV-viewing audience. From the hapless careerists who come against the strictures of organized enforcement agencies to the trigger-happy officers who drag themselves and colleagues into terrible scenarios,...

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Collider is thrilled to exclusively premiere a sneak peek at the highly anticipated second season of The Responder. The critically acclaimed British drama, starring Martin Freeman as Chris Carson, returns with new episodes that delve deeper into the gritty realities of police work in Liverpool. In this exclusive clip, we see Carson confronted with a harrowing moral dilemma. Asked to do the unthinkable for a police officer, Chris appears tempted to cross a line that could change his life forever. The tension is palpable as Freeman delivers a gripping performance, showcasing the internal conflict that defines his character.

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Responder Season 2 Episodes 1 and 2.] Chris (Martin Freeman) is trying a lot in The Responder Season 2. He wants to be a good officer. He wants to be a good father. He wants to get off night shift and have a day job. Unfortunately, that just doesn’t seem to be in the cards for him. Over the first two episodes, now streaming on BritBox, Chris learns that he has zero chance of scoring a day job unless he does a job for Debs (Amaka Okafor), but then that goes haywire and he’s stuck owing the wrong person money. To fix that problem, he agrees to pick up drugs for Jodie (Faye McKeever), only for that to go sideways, but fortunately(?!), Casey’s (Emily Fairn) there to get the bag. Below, Freeman and writer Tony Schumacher take us inside Chris’ head in ...

The Responder, a British police drama starring Martin Freeman, is returning to BritBox for a second season. The show continues to explore the challenges faced by police response officer Chris Carson as he grapples with the relentless trauma of his job, while attempting to rebuild his life and relationships. The second season picks up six […]

The Responder Returns to BritBox for Season 2 Thursday July 11...

Martin Freeman‘s brilliant career encompasses comedy (the original U.K. The Office), drama, and epic fantasy (The Hobbit trilogy). But few roles in his impressive catalogue have been as unsparingly realistic and raw as that of The Responder‘s Chris Carson, the conflicted and emotionally exhausted police officer working the soul-crushing night shift in gritty Liverpool. He won an International Emmy for The Responder‘s first season, and Season 2 (with two episodes premiering weekly) plunges Carson even deeper into perilous rabbit holes of deception and frustration. Chris, demoted from his former rank of Inspector, has one goal this season: to land a day job on the force that would keep him closer to his estranged wife (MyAnna Buring), who threatens to move to London with their adorable daughter (Romi Hyland-Rylands), whose first communion is approaching. But his complicated dealings with shady cops and local ...

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Happy Valley is a British drama series known for its realistic portrayal of a police officer's life. Sarah Lancashire gave a masterful performance as Catherine Cawood, the protagonist of Happy Valley. Despite only releasing three seasons, Happy Valley's realistic depiction of crime and policework kept audiences entertained for almost an entire decade.

The British police procedural scene has been inundated with stellar work. In recent years, the likes of Line of Duty, The Responder and Broadchurch have become the front-runners, stealing the limelight with narratives that give a varying angle on the saturated subgenre. Keeping hold of its fan base for 9 years, with only 3 seasons, is Happy Valley; the drama that fans couldn't stop talking about, even with a 7-year gap between its second and third seasons. With so much competition, it would've been conceivable for the Yorkshire-based...

BritBox is back with new titles this July! It’s a lighter-than-usual month at the best of British TV and film streamer, but there’s no shortage of great crime and espionage drama additions, including the Emmy Award-winning “Killing Eve,” starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, which will have its first and second seasons join the library this month.

Also up next are Season 4 of the John Simm-led “Grace” and Season 2 of the critically acclaimed “The Responder,” starring Martin Freeman. BritBox will also add new seasons of classic British series like “Silent Witness” and “Lovejoy.” Plus, the beloved action spy series “Callan” will see its first two seasons join BritBox’s library.

Find out everything coming to BritBox in July, including The Streamable’s top picks for the month!

7-Day Free Trial $8.99+ / month BritBox.com What are the 3 Best Shows, Movies, and Specials Coming to BritBox in July 2024? “Grace” Season 4 | Tuesday,...

Studio Soho Distribution has announced the UK and Irish release date of the 19th of July for the British movie ‘Chuck Chuck Baby’ alongside its new poster.

Set in present-day industrial North Wales, Helen spends her nights packing chickens and her days caring for a dying mother-figure Gwen. Helen’s world takes an unexpected turn with the return of Joanne. Twenty years ago, they were the objects of the other’s unspoken teenage passions. One night, Helen encourages Joanne to start a playful wooing game that re-awakens their youthful feelings.

As they fall in love and lust, Helen’s zest for life returns but Joanne feels the walls closing in as she faces something much darker from her past. Helen’s world is shattered when Gwen dies and Joanne’s painful memories cause her to flee. Separated and alone, will both women reflect on their unfulfilled chance to break their...

Warning: spoilers for Doctor Who finale “Empire of Death”.

The mystery of Ruby Sunday has been solved, and after teasing the parentage of Millie Gibson’s motherless Mancunian since she arrived in Doctor Who’s 2023 Christmas special, series 14 finale “Empire of Death” brought everything full circle. Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteen had been helping Ruby try to trace her family tree all series, and now, we know who her mother is… a regular human woman with no supernatural or alien connections.

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies has now confirmed that the big twist of Ruby’s mother being a young woman called Louise Alison Miller (played by The Responder‘s Faye McKeever) was directly inspired by one of Star Wars’ most divisive reveals.

As soon as we first saw baby Ruby being dropped off at the church on Ruby Road, there were swirling fan theories, with the wildest suggesting she...

The following contains spoilers from the June 21 season finale of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who’s Millie Gibson and newly revealed TV mum Faye McKeever had a bit of a mother-daughter lovefest on Instagram, as each reflected on the wonderfully directed, beautifully written and emotionally charged scene in which Ruby Sunday introduced herself to Louise Alison Miller.

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BritBox, the streaming home of British TV in the U.S. and Canada, has announced its July 2024 schedule, offering a compelling mix of new originals and classic British favorites. The highlight of the month is the return of the multi-bafta-nominated The Responder, starring Martin Freeman, who won an International Emmy for his performance in the […]

BritBox July 2024 Lineup, The Responder Series 2, Grace & More...