Three quarters of jobs secured by creative industry workers in the last 18 months came through a friend or contact, according to figures released as part of Bectu’s Big Survey. The survey of over 5,500 creative industry workers in non-performing roles – from theatre to film and TV to fashion – gives a unique insight […]
Netflix, Gobelins Paris and Hollywood director Guillermo del Toro have partnered to launch a new stop-motion studio that aims to “shape the storytellers of tomorrow and propel the art form into the future”. Located within the renowned Gobelins Paris campus, the new studio is co-funded by del Toro and Netflix, and will serve as a […]
Women in Film and Television UK (WFTV) has unveiled the 2025 cohort currently taking part in the WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab, sponsored by Diageo. Now underway at The Hurst in Shropshire – the former home of playwright John Osborne and base of the Arvon Foundation – this week-long, fully funded programme offers a unique […]
StudioCanal has announces a strategic reorganisation of its Worldwide Television division under managing director M-K Kennedy who confirms new appointments designed to “provide greater clarity for partners and producers across its European and worldwide territory footprint and a growing slate of international series”. As part of this new organisation Alix Lebrat becomes SVP Series for […]
BBC Wales, BBC Network, and Creative Wales have partnered to fund the development of a major new factual entertainment series. Production companies with a substantive base in Wales are invited to pitch ideas that celebrate Welsh creativity while delivering entertainment to audiences across the UK. The BBC is looking for a returnable format, that unites […]
Synchronicity Films (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Mayflies, The Cry) and Big Light Productions (Leonardo, The Man in the High Castle) are partnering on Blue Mountain, an ambitious character-driven drama created by writer Anita Vettesse (Grantchester, This Thing of Darkness, River City). The series, a Scottish neo-Western and epic family saga, follows multiple families locked in […]
Finnish production company Whatever Pictures has unveiled its slate of scripted series ahead of MIPCOM, featuring the action-driven crime thriller series Transporter (6×45’). Iceland’s Glassriver has boarded the series as co-producers and broadcaster Síminn has commissioned the series for Iceland. MTV has acquired the series for Finland. The growing slate of scripted series follows the […]
Yellow Film Studios, the independent studio in the Nordics and parent to Yellow Film & TV Finland, 255 Pix, and Newgrange Pictures in Ireland, has announced a strategic merger with Danish sales and financing studio REinvent. Together, they are launching Reinvent Yellow, a unified hub for production, sales, financing, and innovation. The new group brings […]
Singapore-based content creators Empire of Arkadia (EOA) and Mocha Chai Laboratories (MCL) have partnered with Japan’s public media organisation NHK and production house TV Man Union (TVU) in creating Lost and Found – an adventure drama series inspired by real events, targeting Gen Z audiences around the world. Shot in both Japanese and English, on […]
Sky has announced new Italian Sky Original series Gucci – Fine dei Giochi (working title) – a modern family epic about the power of a name, the price of fame, and the allure of success and money – lots of money. Filming will commence in spring 2026 and the series will be directed by Gabriele […]