Jesse joined Deadline in 2022 from UK TV trade Broadcast, where he had most recently been Insight Editor, overseeing features and long-form reporting. Whittock worked across editing and commissioning and wrote news, features and long-read articles for Broadcast’s monthly magazine and website. Previously, he worked at Television Business International and C21. He his based in London.
EXCLUSIVE: Crunchyroll is joining Korean K-pop supergroup BTS’s animated superhero adventure Bastions.
The anime-focused international streamer has a struck a deal with producer Thymos Media for worldwide rights to the show, excluding China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea. It…
EXCLUSIVE: The latest projects from Mr Gaga director Tomer Heymann and Academy Award nominee Dror Moreh will be among the titles on show at the 25th CoPro market in Israel next month.
Organizers of CoPro 25 have announced a slate of 18 projects and three main tracks, titled Pitch Forum, Rough Cut and…
EXCLUSIVE: A Portuguese-Brazilian drama series about the romance of two 17th Century soldiers is in development.
Land of Shadows will follow their blossoming but forbidden love during the 17th Century, when Brazil was a colony of the Kingdom of Portugal. It’s based on No País das Sombras, a novel…
‘Gomorrah’ Writers To Adapt David Szalay Novel ‘Turbulence’Gomorrah and ZeroZeroZero writers Leonardo Fasoli and Maddelena Ravagli has been tapped to adapt Man Booker-shortlisted novel Turbulence into a TV series with Envision Entertainment. The book, from David Szalay, comprises interconnected…
EXCLUSIVE: BBC boss Charlotte Moore, director Kevin Macdonald and Sky UK drama chief Meghan Lyvers are set to appear at an Edinburgh TV Festival conference on climate-focused content.
The pair will speak at the first Climate Content Summit in London on June 7 at the Barbican center. Other highlights…
Sarah Snook might be caught up in some heavy corporate America wranglings as Shiv Roy in Succession, but her latest role is taking her on an eerie trip to Australia’s Riverland region.
Above is a first-look trailer for Run Rabbit Run, which stars Emmy nominee Snook as a fertility doctor who’s…
HanWay Films has boarded The One, an erotic thriller starring Melissa Barrera and Nicholas Hoult and will launch sales at the Cannes Film Festival.
The project comes from writer-director team Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley and is billed as “a nightmarish horror about the romantic and psychological…
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed emerging British actor, writer and stage performer Layton Williams for U.S. representation.
Layton is currently starring in Season 4 of BBC Three state school comedy series Bad Education, on which he is also a writer.
He has played the role of Stephen Carmichael in the…
Prime Video Lines Up 'One For All' Series On Belgian Soccer Players
Prime Video is set to launch One for All, a four-part doc from Neo Studios about three Belgian national team football players. Real Madrid's Thibaut Courtois, Inter Milan's Romelu Lukaku and Atletico Madrid's Axel Witsel will offer…
Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters are reuniting with This is England maker Warp Films.
Matriarch Productions, which Graham and actress-producer wife Walters run together, has signed a development and production partnership with Warp.
A “number” of development projects are already underway and…
Amazon Studios is launching Amazon MGM Studios Distribution.
The worldwide distribution division will see Amazon originals and MGM library titles, which number 4,000 film titles and 17,000 TV episodes.
At launch the division will offer Amazon Originals including 7500, All the Old Knives, Bliss, B…
Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav has said the company’s U.S. streaming operation is “no longer bleeding” after it posted a $50M profit for Q1 this year. “It's harder to run a business when you have a big bleeder,” he told investors on an earnings call minutes ago.
WBD had posted several…