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This article contains Spoilers for Severance Season 2, Episode 10, "Cold Harbor."

Severance’srecent Season 2 finale was a whirlwind that included an awkward conversation between Innie Mark (Adam Scott) and his outie, a marching band, and a tense scene with a baby goat and its handler, Lorne (Gwendoline Christie). That scene culminated in an action-packed and violent manner as Innie Mark sneaks down to Lumon’s testing floor, where little Emile the goat is about to be sacrificed in the name of Lumon founder Kier Eagan.

Speaking with Esquire, Severance creator Dan Erickson talked about casting Christie, who is known for her Emmy-nominated portrayal of the tough-as-nails Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones.

“We had cast Gwendoline (Christie). She’s of course, known for playing Brienne of Tarth and having this imposing fighting prowess on Game of Thrones,” Erickson said. “We had cast her with no intention of putting her in...

WWE hit the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, for a pre-taped episode of SmackDown for the final stop before Survivor Series. Cm Punk and Roman Reigns came face to face for the first time since Punk's big return to the company. In a cinematic meeting, the two were tense and mistrusting of one another ahead of teaming up at Survivor Series, and a mystery favor was discussed by Punk for Paul Heyman. Solo Sikoa's team will also have the advantage at WarGames, after Jacob Fatu pinned Jey Uso in SmackDown's Main Event and his first singles match in WWE.

Elsewhere in the show, Michin became the third woman to qualify for the next round of the United States Championship tournament with victory over Piper Niven and Lash Legend, replacing the injured Jade Cargill. Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Andrade in a competitive encounter, before hitting LA Knight with black...

Storied UK labels Talkback and Thames are merging once again. Around six roles will be impacted, we understand.

Deadline revealed last year that plans were in place from super-indie owner Fremantle to bring the two together under a restructure that has now been rubberstamped with the exit of Talkback boss Jonno Richards.

The new TalkbackThames outfit will be led by current Thames MD Charlie Irwin. Fremantle said it will create a “single entertainment super-label.” Between them, the two produce the likes of Britain’s Got Talent, Too Hot to Handle, Blankety Blank, Family Fortunes, Qi and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Upcoming shows include Netflix double Bear Hunt with Bear Grylls and Holly Willoughby, and Battle Camp.

In an internal email to staff sent out this afternoon, seen by Deadline, Fremantle UK CEO Amelia Brown said “whilst this is a positive move for the company, I do understand that with any change...

Nicola Maccanico, the ex-ceo of iconic Italian studio Cinecittà, is heading to Fremantle to run its Italian division.

Maccanico resigned over the summer from the studio that hosted work from the likes of Roland Emmerich, Joe Wright, Edward Berger, Angelina Jolie and Luca Guadagnino during his tenure. He left after his three-year term at the government-owned facilities had ended. Past roles include EVP Programming at Sky Italia, CEO at Vision Distribution and Managing Director of Theatrical at Warner Brothers Italy.

At Fremantle he will oversee a portfolio that includes Wildside, The Apartment Pictures, Lux Vide and Fremantle Italy, with their CEO’s Sonia Rovai, Annamaria Morelli, Luca Bernabei, and Marco Tombolini respectively reporting into Maccanico.

The role is newly created. At the same time, France boss Bruno Fallot has been promoted to oversee Fremantle’s production biz in France, Spain, Portugal and Israel. Both will join Fremantle’s global senior leader team.

Exclusive: Veteran actor and comedian Eddie Griffin has signed with Independent Artist Group across the board, Deadline has learned.

Appearing in over 50 films and TV shows over more than three decades, Griffin won an NAACP Image Award from multiple nominations for his starring role in Malcolm & Eddie, a sitcom that aired on Upn for four seasons.

Appearing alongside Dave Chappelle, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in the latter’s Academy Award winner A Star Is Born, he’s also been seen over the years in titles like the Denzel Washington thriller John Q, blaxploitation pic Undercover Brother, Armageddon, the Deuce Bigalow comedy franchise, Eddie Murphy starrer Norbit, Date Movie, Scary Movie 3, and My Baby’s Daddy, which he wrote, exec produced and starred in for Miramax.

Previously, Griffin also voiced the role of Richard Pryor on Adult Swim’s animated series Black Dynamite and starred on BET’s The Comedy Get Down.

Undeniable, a new documentary label from Fremantle, has partnered with Big Pond Films and Concordia Studio on true crime doc Whatever It Takes, which tells the true story of Ina and David Steiner, two journalists targeted in one of the most extraordinary and bizarre scandals in Silicon Valley. Helmed by Jenny Carchman, the Emmy nominee behind Showtime’s The Fourth Estate, the film is slated to premiere in the Documentary Spotlight section of SXSW later this year.

Whatever It Takes picks up in the summer of 2019, as a middle-aged couple is subjected to cyberstalking threats and bizarre deliveries including a bloody pig mask and funeral wreath. As the harassment intensifies, the police and FBI close in on a Silicon Valley giant and some very unlikely suspects. The film tells the extraordinary story of eBay, a Fortune 500 company founded on the principle that “people are basically good,” and how members of...

Exclusive: There’s some more change at Fremantle, this time in the documentary space.

Mandy Chang is stepping back from her role as Global Head of Documentaries, two and a half years after joining the Rtl-owned company.

However, she is staying in the Fremantle family as she will continue to run Undeniable, the documentary label that it launched earlier this year.

In response, Mark Reynolds, who previously worked at BBC Studios, will take over as Interim Global Head of Documentaries, starting in January.

Elaine Morris, who is head of production, and Bernie Kay will report to Reynolds when he starts on January 8. Reynolds himself will report to Andrea Scrosati, Fremantle’s Group COO and CEO of Continental Europe.

“Mark will continue to support the growth of our documentaries business and drive collaboration across our production companies and labels around the world,” Scrosati wrote in an internal email seen by Deadline.

Exclusive: Banijay has taken another leap into the premium docs space with the launch of Dsp Films, an offshoot of long-running UK unscripted indie Dsp. The super-indie has poached Netflix’s Missing: Dead or Alive EP Graeme McAulay to run Dsp Films and he will leave his current role at UK doc indie Blast Films next month.

Dsp Films will develop premium docs for both streamers and UK broadcasters, coming at a time when the big production houses are keen to push into the space. The launch is unveiled just two months after Fremantle opened Undeniable, a similar label helmed by Global Head of Documentaries Mandy Chang.

During his stint as Blast Creative Director, McAulay was behind Netflix’s Missing: Dead or Alive true crime docuseries, which entered the streamer’s U.S. Top 10 last week, along with Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated Jeremy Kyle Show: Death On Daytime. Prior to joining Blast,...

“It’s the place to be for non-fiction,” as one attendee put it.

A high-quality Dox:Award competition is augmenting Cph:dox’s position as the go-to documentary event of the season according to industry attendees, as its 2023 edition came to a close this weekend.

“With some festivals becoming more cutting-edge politically and artistically, we do need a place we can distribute titles, where there is a demand for the best programmes for existing and new audiences,” said Esther van Messel, founder and CEO at Swiss production, sales and distribution company First Hand Films, who said the event is ”gearing up to...

Label launched at Cph:dox in Copenhagen.

UK-based production and distribution house Fremantle has launched Undeniable, a new label for feature and series documentaries.

Sitting within Fremantle’s Documentaries division, Undeniable will develop and produce ‘premium’ projects according to the company. It will make high end international projects that come to Fremantle directly without going through their local territories.

Fremantle’s first-look deal with US filmmaker Amy Berg, announced last week, will fall under the Undeniable banner; Berg is currently in Copenhagen shooting for a film under the partnership.

The brand was announced at Cph:dox today (March 21) in Copenhagen by Mandy Chang,...

Fremantle has launched a premium documentaries label helmed by Mandy Chang.

The super-indie’s Head of Documentaries will oversee Undeniable, which she has just unveiled on stage at Copenhagen’s Cph:Dox.

Helming “provocative, entertaining, diverse, and influential” premium documentaries with high-profile talent, Undeniable’s launch comes amidst a Fremantle docs push. The outfit has recently acquired One Day In America indie 72 Films, natural history producer Wildstar Films and Israel’s Silvio Productions.

Andrea Scrosati, Fremantle’s Group COO and Continental CEO, said the launch “forms part of Fremantle’s growth strategy to boost our capabilities in documentaries as we have successfully achieved in film and drama over recent years.”

He added that Fremantle and its labels delivered 52 documentaries last year, including Kingdom of Dreams and Mrs. America.

“Working with the very best filmmakers and emerging talent, the label will provide editorial and production expertise and support in multiple genres,...

AMC+ and Rlje Films have acquired worldwide rights to the holiday comedy Christmas with the Campbells, starring Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect franchise), Justin Long (He’s Just Not That Into You), Alex Moffat (Saturday Night Live), Julia Duffy (Newhart), George Wendt (Cheers) and JoAnna Garcia Swisher (Sweet Magnolias). The film produced by Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show will simultaneously hit theaters and AMC+ in the U.S. in late fall.

Christmas with the Campbells is billed as a traditional holiday romance story executed with unfiltered adult humor. Specifics as far as its plot are being kept under wraps.

Clare Niederpruem is directing from a script by Vaughn, Dan Lagana (American Vandal) and Barbara Kymlicka. Vaughn and Lagana are also producing alongside Peter Billingsley (Couples Retreat) under their Wild West Picture Show banner, with Stan Spry (Creepshow) exec producing. The feature is the second from Rlje and Wild West, on...

Exclusive: Rapper Snoop Dogg is to voice and exec produce an animated comedy for Amazon with Vince Vaughn also exec producing.

The streamer is developing Oaklandia, which is written by Daniel Dominguez (right), head writer and exec producer for season two of HBO Max’s Michael B. Jordan animated series Gen:Lock, and Chris “Comedian Cp” Powell (left), who starred in Comedy Central’s Detroiters and created Adult Swim special Ole Bud’s Anu Football Weekly.

The animated series is set in Oakland, California. Produced by Amazon Studios, Snoop Dogg and his manager and business partner Ted Chung exec produce alongside Vaughn, Victoria Vaughn and Peter Billingsley for Wild West Picture Show Productions and Dominguez and Powell.

It is the streamer’s latest move into adult animation. Earlier this year, it ordered Fairfax, a series based on the strange phenomenon of Los Angeles hypebeast culture, from Matt Hausfater, Aaron Buchsbaum, and...

Exclusive: Range Media Partners has signed Vince Vaughn, the latest big name to join the upstart management company, which has been ramping up since its September launch.

Vaughn did not have a manager and remains repped by WME on the agency side.

The move comes as Vaughn is next up starring alongside Kathryn Newton in Freaky, the Blumhouse body-swap thriller that hits theaters via Universal on November 13. He is set to go into production on STX’s Queenpins, the comedy about the largest counterfeit coupon scam in U.S. history that also stars Kristen Bell, Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Paul Walter Hauser.

Vaughn’s film credits since his breakout in Swingers include Old School, Wedding Crashers, The Break Up, Hacksaw Ridge and Seberg. In TV, he most recently played Freddy Funkhouser on Season 10 of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.

As a producer, Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show is behind among...

A rebooted Undeniable with Dan Patrick is coming to At&T Audience Network in early 2019, with Patrick stepping in and taking over for Joe Buck who served as host for five seasons. Buck’s departure has opened the door for a brand new perspective and energy in the art of the interview, especially when it comes to sports icons and lions of achievement in every sport imaginable rarely heard from. Patrick understands how to pull a great anecdote or reveal out of an interview subject. His radio show The Dan Patrick Show featuring his four comrades-in-arms The Danettes who are executive […]

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Though historical drama fans in the United States might have to wait a bit, their UK counterparts will be excited for the next big period drama to take over their TV. The upcoming eight-part miniseries “Victoria” follows the early life of Queen Victoria (Jenna Coleman), from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 through her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert (Tom Hughes). The series also features Rufus Sewell (“The Illusionist”) as Lord Melbourne, Peter Firth (“Equus”) as the Duke of Cumberland, Paul Rhys (“Vincent and Theo”) as Sir John Conroy, and many more.

Read More: ‘Doctor Who’s’ Jenna Coleman Embodies the Vivacious and Very Short Queen ‘Victoria’

The series is created by Daisy Goodwin, who previously produced on such British programs as the UK version of “The Apprentice,” the reality show “How Clean Is Your House?” the five-part documentary “Jamie’s Kitchen,” and Sharon Horgan’s comedy series “Pulling.

Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar are to lead a new ITV drama series.

Unforgotten will be a six-part series written by Undeniable's Chris Lang, and will focus on a 39-year-old murder case.

The bones of a young man are discovered below a demolished house, prompting an investigation that rocks the lives of four people who have been waiting for this moment to come.

Trevor Eve, Bernard Hill, Ruth Sheen and Tom Courtenay will also star in the drama.

Walker and Bhaskar will play the lead roles of Dci Cassie Stuart and DS Sunil 'Sunny' Khan, who will look into the case and speak to the four main suspects.

The drama will be set in different areas of the UK, including the London suburbs, the Essex coast, Westminster and the Fens.

Other supporting cast members include Gemma Jones, Brian Bovell, Cherie Lunghi, Hannah Gordon, Claire Goose, Tamzin Malleson, Frances Tomelty and Peter Egan.

ITV has commissioned new drama The Forgotten.

The six-part series from Mainstreet Pictures will centre on a 39-year-old cold case that's reopened following the discovery of a skeleton buried underneath a cellar.

An extensive investigation is led by Dci Cassie Stuart and Di Sunil 'Sunny' Khan that spans the country and delves back in time to find the killer.

Chris Lang (Undeniable, A Mother's Son) writes the series and Tim Bradley (Teachers, Primeval) produces.

ITV's Director of Drama Steve November said: "The Forgotten will look at how an historic police investigation affects the lives of all those touched by it.

"Lang's scripts are wonderfully compelling as the mystery deepens and the police hunt for the killer intensifies."

BBC Worldwide has claimed the global distribution rights for the series.

The Forgotten will begin filming in March 2015, with casting due to take place later in the year.

ITV's Undeniable topped Monday night's (April 14) ratings outside of soaps, overnight data has revealed.

The Claire Goose drama's two-parter concluded with 5.4 million (24.1%) at 9pm (337,000/2.1% on +1), dropping 400k from last week. Earlier, I Never Knew That About Britain intrigued 2.9m (13.9%) at 8pm (154k/0.7%).

On BBC One, Bang Goes the Theory educated 3.2m (15.7%) at 7.30pm, while Panorama was seen by 2.1m (9.8%) at 8.30pm. The Treasure Hunters gathered 2.7m (12.2%) at 9pm, and the final Michael McIntyre Chat Show of the series dropped around 300k to 1.9m (16.3%) at 10.35pm.

BBC Two's Great British Menu appealed to 1.2m (6.0%) at 7.30pm, followed by Restaurant Wars with 1.2m (5.7%) at 8pm. Real Storage Wars interested 1.0m (4.6%) at 9pm, while Rev amused 1.2m (6.3%) at 10pm.

On Channel 4, Shop Secrets brought in 881k (4.0%) at 8pm (120k/0.5%). One Born Every Minute continued with 1.8m (8.0%) at 9pm (174k/1.1%), followed by 8 Out of 10 Cats with 1.1m (6.6%) at 10pm (133k/1.5%).

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Undeniable: ITV, 9pm

First of a new two-part mystery drama. Jane (Claire Goose), who witnessed her mother's murder as a child, identifies the killer many years later. The supposed killer is a well-known medic (Spooks star Peter Firth) and Jane's family do their best to discourage her from prying.

She teams up with the original police investigator, but as she has made several false accusations before, is she about to ruin another man's life?

Game of Thrones: Sky Atlantic, 9pm

Season four opens as the Lannisters have defeated their great rival family, the Starks. Cersei and Jaime have reunited, and Tyrion returns humiliated as he welcomes a new guest. The war is far from over though, as new enemies appear, and Daenerys struggles to control her army and indeed her dragons across the ocean.

The show was be simulcast with the Us broadcast in an effort to...