Little Chick Productions, founded by BAFTA and Emmy award-winning writer Abi Morgan (The Split, Eric, Shame) and Emerging Talent Programme Director Dorcas Morgan, have announced the return of the Little Chick Emerging Writers Scheme: a television drama writing programme for early-career professional screenwriters. Following a highly successful pilot year in 2025 that featured 12 participants, […]
Boat Rocker Studios, the independent entertainment company, has finalised an internal reorganisation that it says will better align the business with its strategic priorities as a newly private company. Partners Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier and John Young, who completed a management buyout of Boat Rocker Studios in August 2025 (the company Schneeberg and Fortier founded […]
Disney+ has confirmed a two-year first-look deal out of the UK with Matriarch Productions, founded by the award-winning actors and producers Stephen Graham (This is England, Adolescence) and his wife Hannah Walters (A Thousand Blows, Boiling Point). Building on the Disney+ local original production slate in the UK, the two-year deal will span original scripted […]
Lily Wilson has announced the name of ITV Studios’ new entertainment label as Bright Entertainment. To mark this news, Wilson also unveiled the label’s first commission as The Chase Around the World, a new prime time format from the creators of ITV’s globally successful game show, The Chase. Hosted by Bradley Walsh, The Chase Around […]
Maverick Arts Publishing has announced the launch of its new production company, Maverick Pictures Limited. Created to act as a co-production studio, Maverick Pictures will focus on developing selected Maverick books for potential film and television projects, expanding the reach of its stories to new family audiences. The new company launches in collaboration with writer […]
Luma AI, the AI company building multimodal AGI, has introduced Ray3 Modify – a next-generation workflow that allows real-life actor performances to be enhanced with AI, enabling creative teams to produce Hollywood-quality performances and scenes. Ray3 Modify allows editing recorded footage in new ways and is a visual effect tool rolled into a single model. […]
Independent production company, Finite Films & TV, has appointed Paddy Hughes (BBC3’s Eating with my Ex, C4 & Vinted’s Second Hand Style Up) as Creative Director to support its slate of original branded content. Hughes is a BAFTA-nominated Director and Producer, and has worked in television, SVoD, digital and commercial content for 20 years, taking […]
A director hired by Netflix to make a science-fiction series was convicted this week of an $11 million (€9.3m) fraud. Prosecutors said Carl Erik Rinsch, 48, secured funding from Netflix from 2018 to early 2020 to make the series, which was initially called White Horse and later renamed Conquest. But he put the money in […]
The BBC has announced new funding and commissioning plans to build on the success of shows such as Blue Lights, Death Valley (pictured) and Only Child. The plans will see the broadcaster double spend on commissioning new shows for TV and BBC iPlayer that reflect stories in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales – from c£50 […]
The British Film Commission and Italian Film Commissions joined forces under a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the aim of recognising and enhancing the collaboration between the UK and Italian screen industries, as well as incentivising and promoting inward investment film and high-end TV production across the two territories. Building on the MoU signed […]