Tag: BBC Studios

Actor Derek Thompson will be exiting BBC One’s Casualty after 37 years of starring as Charlie Fairhead.

Prime Video and BBC One have picked up a third season of the comedy thriller The Outlaws from creator, star, writer and director Stephen Merchant (The Office).

Paramount+ has commissioned a five-part series adaptation of Lucy Clarke’s best-selling thriller novel The Castaways from Clapperboard Studios and BlackBox Multimedia.

The U.S. arts channel Ovation TV has inked a deal with BBC Studios for non-exclusive linear rights of two detective series, including Death in Paradise.

The BBC has commissioned Kidnapped (w.t.), based on the true story of Chloe Ayling, a British model who was abducted in Italy in 2017 after traveling for a photo shoot.

Executive producer Simon Heath and actors Sophie Rundle and Serena Manteghi talk about shooting The Diplomat in Barcelona amid Covid protocols and the nuances of the story-of-the-week format.

BBC Studios-backed indie Brock Media has picked up the rights to Caleb Azumah Nelson’s second novel, Small Worlds.

BBC Studios has taken a minority investment in the British scripted indie production company Turbine Studios, which is behind hits such as Small Axe, Munich: The Edge of War and Steve McQueen’s Uprising.

Laura Lankester and Will Johnston have been tapped as joint CEOs of Lookout Point.

BBC Studios has secured a deal with MBC Group for the first Arabic-language adaptation of the drama Doctor Foster.