Tag: BBC Worldwide

NEW YORK: A roster of young actors has been added to the upcoming drama Class, a spin-off of the BBC international hit Doctor Who.

CANNES: BBC Worldwide has secured presales for the eight-part drama The Collection, which is launching at MIPTV, in Sweden and Denmark.

LOS ANGELES: Game of Thrones actress Gwendoline Christie is joining Elisabeth Moss in the second season of the BBC Two and SundanceTV co-production Top of the Lake.

SEATTLE: Amazon has inked a multiyear content licensing agreement with BBC Worldwide that makes its Prime Video service the exclusive U.S. subscription streaming home for the modern incarnation of Doctor Who.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide is scheduled to premiere its new drama The Collection at MIPTV with a screening attended by cast members Tom Riley, Mamie Gummer and Irène Jacob.

NEW YORK: Tony Jordan, creator and writer of the period drama Dickensian, tells World Screen Newsflash how he went about reimagining the world of Dickens and the characters that inhabit it.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has sold more than 900 hours of British crime drama, including Sherlock, Luther and Happy Valley, into a range of markets globally.

Mansha Daswani surveys leading distributors about the financing and distribution strategies needed to roll out high-end drama across the globe.

LONDON: France Télévisions has joined Amazon Prime and BBC Worldwide as co-commissioners on the new drama The Collection from Lookout Point.

LONDON: Channel One in Russia is among the broadcasters to have picked up Andrew Davies's adaptation of War and Peace from BBC Worldwide.