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Chuck Woolery, the veteran game show host who gained fame as the original emcee behind “Wheel of Fortune” and later as the face of the popular syndicated dating show “Love Connection,” has died. He was 83.

The news was first reported on the social media site X by Woolery’s friend Mark Young, who noted that “it is with a broken heart that I tell you that my dear brother @chuckwoolery has just passed away. Life will not be the same without him, Rip brother.”

The website TMZ confirmed the news, reporting that Woolery died in his Texas home after having trouble breathing.

Woolery, who spent more than ten years as host of “Love Connection” (where he famously told viewers before commercial breaks that the show would be back in “two and two”), became known in more recent years as a conservative talk show host and pundit. He hosted a nationally syndicated radio commentary show,...

Exclusive: Fran Harris, co-writer on BBC cop show Blue Lights, is developing a Cold Feet-style drama series with backing from Irish pubcaster RTÉ.

Harris has been working on the relationship drama Laura McNicholas, founder of Dublin-based indie 925 Productions, who is here in Rome at Mia Market pitching Yes! to buyers, co-production partners and distributors. RTÉ is aboard alongside Screen Ireland to support development, but the series isn’t yet greenlit.

McNicholas told Deadline it was being set up as an hour-long relationship drama “along the lines of Cold Feet as an ensemble. “There will ideally be multiple storylines and threads we can explore, giving it renewability for many seasons,” she added.

The plot is being billed as a “generational story about self-rediscovery” in which several unhappy college friends who reconnect in their late-30s been look for new venues after hitting crises in their lives, such as being widowed or divorced.

“Twisters” has been out for a while, and while Glen Powell has garnered much of the attention, another cast member is now making waves and experiencing a major career boost thanks to the film.

Daisy Edgar-Jones, who plays Kate Carter—a meteorologist and former storm chaser—has seen her career take off unexpectedly but positively due to her role. Though few anticipated this part would have such a profound impact, it appears to be propelling Edgar-Jones’ career upward.

According to Variety, Edgar-Jones has now joined an exclusive group of young actresses in their twenties that major studios are eagerly investing in, marking her as a standout talent in the industry.

Daisy Edgar-Jones was born in London in 1998 and began her acting career with a recurring role in the 2016 TV series Cold Feet. She made her film debut in Pond Life in 2018, but it was her role in the 2019 series War of the Worlds...

Twisters has been out for a while now and while people have mostly been talking about Glen Powell, the film actually helped launch another cast member into stardom, as everyone is now talking about her and how Twisters helped her career in a major and pretty much unexpected, but definitely positive way.

The actress in question is Daisy Edgar-Jones, who plays Kate Carter, a meteorologist and former storm chaser, in the movie. This is a main role for the young actress and while not many predicted that this particular role would have such a major impact on her career going forward, it seems that it is going to and that Edgar-Jones’ career is on an upwards spiral!

Namely, as Variety claims, Edgar-Jones now managed to enter a very exclusive pool of 20-ish-something young actresses the major studios are betting on, and if the article is to be believed, the young...

This past week was a huge one for John Mulaney. Sure he got married to Olivia Munn, but most importantly, he was a contestant on a TV game show!

Mulaney appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, along with his Oh, Hello co-star Nick Kroll. This season will find all the famous contestants competing as pairs, either because it leads to more fun cross-talk, or because two celebrities have the combined intelligence of one regular person.

One question the duo was asked early on involved Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, specifically, the title of a recent book about the legendary film critics by Matt Singer, which nods to their “signature gesture.” Some of the options included “Cold Feet” and “Restless Legs.”

Mulaney responded by launching into an anecdote about a decades-old interaction with one-half of Siskel and Ebert. “My friend in Chicago lived below Siskel,...

ITV Studios Finland has begun production on a local adaptation of “Cold Feet,” the beloved British comedy-drama series that ran for five seasons between 1997 and 2003 before launching a hit reboot 13 years later.

Produced for MTV and set to premiere in 2026, the 8 x 42” series (“Rimakauhua ja rakkautta” in Finnish) is written by Marika Kuortti (“Roomies”) and directed by Ville Jankeri (“Forest Giant”). Cast includes Minka Kuustonen, Saga Sarkola, Linda Wiklund, Joonas Nordman, Aku Sipola and Nicklas Pohjola. The executive producers are Maria Kangas and Pete Paavolainen for ITV Studios Finland.

“Cold Feet” will follow the lives of three couples in their thirties who are struggling to put their wild youths behind them in the face of middle age, a journey that none will get through easily. Riding the highs and lows as they fight, flirt, struggle with self-esteem, forge lasting friendships and enjoy newfound feelings of happiness, the couples will try...

StudioCanal has named Margaret Conway as its head of physical production for TV as the Canal+ Group-owned company continues to shape its small screen business.

Conway will be based in the U.K. and report to M-k Kennedy, the former Netflix exec who was recently hired to head up StudioCanal TV as executive managing director TV series.

With an experience spanning 30 years, Conway joins from the renowned StudioCanal-owned U.K. TV banner Red Production company, where she was head of production. Prior to Red, she worked as a freelance producer on shows such as Danny Brocklehurst’s “Brassic,” Daragh Carville’s “The Bay,” Mike Bullen’s “Cold Feet” and Reggie Yates’ “Make Me Famous.”

“The appointment of Margaret Conway to the role of head of physical production for StudioCanal TV marks an important moment in our evolution as a TV studio,” said Kennedy. “We want broadcasters, platforms, and other partners...

Margaret Conway soll fortan die internationalen Geschicke als Head of Physical Production von Studiocanal TV leiten. Sie kommt aus der eigenen britischen Produktionseinheit Red.

In neuer Position: Margaret Conway (Credit: Studiocanal)

Studiocanal macht Margaret Conway zur Head of Physical Production bei Studiocanal TV. Sie operiert fortan aus Großbritannien und berichtet direct an Executive Managing Director TV series, M-k Kennedy. Emmanuel Jacquelin, der sich bislang um die französischen Serien bei Studiocanal kümmert, berichtet wiederum ab 1. Juli an Conway.

Kennedy lobt Conway in seiner Stellungnahme zur Personalentscheidung. „Die Ernennung von Margaret Conway zum Head of Physical Production bei Studiocanal TV markiert einen wichtigen Moment in unserer Entwicklung als Fernsehstudio.“

Die Personalie Conway steht für die Wachstumsstrategie bei Studiocanal. „Wir möchten, dass Sender, Plattformen und andere Partner wissen, dass wir unser Studio offiziell auf Wachstum und Langfristigkeit ausrichten. Angefangen bei der physischen Produktion schaffen wir verlässliche Strukturen und eine einheitliche Herangehensweise an die...

Exclusive: Mrs Wilson producer Snowed-In Productions has hired Victoria Fea, the former ITV commissioner who co-founded Longboat Pictures.

Fea joins Snowed-In as an executive producer in June, reporting to CEO Ruth Kenley-Letts. Her appointment follows the departure of Jenny van der Lande to Big Talk Studios.

Snowed-In is behind projects including Itvx’s upcoming Sophie Turner series Joan and Mrs Wilson, the BBC’s Ruth Wilson drama. It also made The Midwich Cuckoos for Sky.

Fea said Snowed-In had a reputation for “classy” television, while Kenley-Letts paid tribute to van der Lande’s tenure at the company.

Longboat Changes

Fea’s exit from Longboat follows an ownership change at the production company she co-founded in 2019 with Julie Anne Robinson, a director who has worked on Doctor Who and Bridgerton.

Sky exited Longboat last year after taking a 25% stake in the company in 2020. Longboat is now wholly owned by The Story Collective,...

Esteemed British writer David Nicholls is not precious when it comes to adaptations of his novels and cites Netflix’s recent adaptation of his 2009 novel One Day as being a perfect example of how being open-minded to fresh ideas on established material can result in good work.

Speaking at Dublin’s first ever screenwriting festival Storyhouse, Nicholls sat down for a lengthy discussion with Room and Normal People director Lenny Abrahamson to discuss his process of writing and adapting material. Nicholls credited the writers and directors of series One Day – writer-creator Nicole Taylor, writer Bijan Sheibani and director Molly Manners, among others – of their ability to adapt One Day for a modern television audience.

“The joy of that was that they were both being very faithful and trying to replicate the feeling of reading the novel while at the same time embellishing and drawing things out,” said Nicholls. “And I...

ITV took a gamble when they snatched the U.K. broadcast rights to the Oscars away from Sky after two decades and it looks like the gamble paid off.

The three-hour plus show averaged 551,000 viewers on Sunday evening. At its peak, around 10.16pm, 1.1 million were watching.

Last year’s show on Sky averaged 95,000 viewers while a highlights cut the following evening garnered 141,000.

ITV1 are set to air highlights of the show on Monday evening while the full simulcast is still available to watch on streaming platform Itvx.

In Italy live Oscars telecast scored a roughly 15% audience share on state broadcaster Rai’s flagship Rai-1 station with a peak of 1.9 million viewers, according to national ratings compiler Auditel. This year marked the return of the live Oscars telecast on Rai after airing exclusively on Comcast-owned Sky Italia for many years.

The Oscars has always been a tricky proposition in Europe,...

Exclusive: Swede Caroline, a British mockumentary starring Jo Hartley (After Life) and Aisling Bea from Nicola Pearcey, formerly President, Lionsgate UK & Europe, and now CEO of Picnik Entertainment, has landed both a theatrical and digital release.

Belstone Pictures, Deadbeat Studios, and Pearcey’s Picnik Entertainment will jointly send the pic into cinemas on April 19, with Sky Cinema set to premiere the film later this year. The deal with Sky was closed by Finn Bruce of Belstone on behalf of the filmmakers and by Rachel Trawicki and Alexander Wright for Sky.

Swede Caroline is the debut feature of directing duo Brook Driver and Finn Bruce, who previously collaborated on SXSW Special Jury Prize-winning Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break. Swede Caroline was penned by Driver. The story is centered around the eccentric world of competitive vegetable growing. The plot follows Caroline as she readies herself for the big championship when the...

David Nicholls’ romance One Day has been adapted for the screen for a second time, this time on Netflix: here’s the trailer.

Novelist David Nicholls has had considerable success as a screenwriter, from penning episodes of Cold Feet and BBC dramas The 7:39 and Aftersun to adapting his own novels Starter For Ten and Us.

His most well known novel, One Day, was previously adapted into a 2011 film by Nicholls himself. Directed by Lobe Scherfig, it saw Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess take on the central roles of Emma and Dexter, alongside Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott and Romola Garai. It received middling reviews which particularly criticized Hathaway’s Yorkshire accent.

A new adaptation is heading to Netflix, this time as a limited series. The synopsis reads as follows:

Netflix’s adaptation of One Day tells the story of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew who, on July 15th 1988, the night of their graduation,...

A new Dio box set, The Studio Albums 1996-2004, will collect the final four solo albums from the late Ronnie James Dio’s eponymous band.

The box set is set to drop on September 22nd on CD and vinyl formats. The super deluxe edition vinyl set includes the following LPs on 180-gram wax with updated artwork: 1996’s Angry Machines (on Halloween orange/black marble vinyl); 2000’s Magica on transparent blood red/black smoke double-vinyl, plus the rare “Electra” single on a cobalt blue 7-inch vinyl); 2002’s Killing the Dragon (on transparent yellow/black marble vinyl); and 2004’s Master of the Moon (on electric blue/milky clear marble vinyl).

It marks the first time all four albums have been housed in one package. Back in 2020, Dio’s estate teamed with BMG to reissue each of the aforementioned albums individually. At the time, Angry Machines received its first official LP release, while Magica,...

Exclusive: Ted Lasso star James Lance and Hermione Norris have joined Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs in the feature adaptation of Raynor Winn’s inspirational bestselling memoir The Salt Path.

The film marks the screen directing debut of Marianne Elliott, the Olivier- and Tony Award-winning director of stage hits War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Company and Death of a Salesman, as Deadline revealed in May.

The Salt Path follows married couple Raynor and Moth Winn, portrayed by Anderson and Isaacs, who, after being evicted from their farm, embark on a long and winding trek along the South West Coast path in UK’s picturesque Devon and Cornwall.

Lance has been cast as Grant, one of a handful of the disparate characters who cross paths with Raynor and Moth during their year long journey.

Norris has signed on as Polly,...

Six independent production companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are pooling their resources to set up a joint development and co-production group to help bankroll high-end drama series and feature films.

Germany’s Claussen + Putz, producers of Netflix series Biohackers and hit children’s film The Little Witch; Hamburg-based Wüste Film (Head-On, Alma & Oskar); Austria’s Die Film Ag (7500 with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Vicky Krieps-starrer Corsage) and Lotus Film (Cold Feet, Cathedrals of Culture); and Hugofilm Features (When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit) and Zodiac Pictures (Heidi, The Divine Order) together have formed Das Dach to jointly develop German-language projects.

The move, unveiled Wednesday, is a reaction to a dramatic shift in the independent production market, brought about by the disruption of the global streaming giants.

“The market is undergoing a fundamental change,” the producers say in a statement. “Previous territorial boundaries and restrictions are being called into question in the...

Exec will report into Spt’s president of international productions Wayne Garvie.

Sony Pictures Television (Spt) has appointed Big Talk managing director Matthew Justice to the newly created role of EVP, head of UK & Europe.

Justice, who announced earlier this week that he was stepping down from The Outlaws producer Big Talk after 16 years, will report into Wayne Garvie, Spt’s president of international productions.

Justice will manage Spt’s international studio operations and European co-productions business, and work closely with Spt production labels and joint ventures. These include: Bad Wolf (His Dark Materials), Eleven Films (Sex Education), Left Bank Pictures...

In what is likely to be considered a major poach, Sony Pictures Television has hired Mathew Justice — a seasoned U.K. industry vet and currently managing director of the ITV Studios-owned Big Talk — for the newly created role of executive vp, head of U.K. and Europe.

Reporting to Spt president of international productions Wayne Garvie, Justice will directly manage the company’s International Studio operations and European co-productions business, as well as work closely with Spt International Production’s wholly owned and joint venture production companies in the region, which include Bad Wolf (His Dark Materials, Industry), Eleven Films (Sex Education) and Left Bank Pictures (The Crown). He joins later this year.

“Joining Wayne and the team at Spt is an opportunity that dreams are made of,” said Justice. “The Spt labels are outstanding, so it is a rare honor to get to work with them and the people behind them.

Sony Pictures Television has appointed Matthew Justice as executive VP and head of U.K. and Europe.

In the newly created role, he will report into Wayne Garvie, president of International Productions. Justice will directly manage Spt’s international studio operations and European co-productions business, as well as work closely with Spt International Production’s wholly-owned and joint venture production companies in the region, which includes Bad Wolf, Eleven Films and Left Bank Pictures.

Justice most recently served as managing director at ITV Studios-backed Big Talk. He will start at Spt later this year.

Garvie said: “Matthew is a highly respected figure in the U.K. television and film industry — together he and Kenton Allen have built Big Talk into a significant international player. A smart operator, a strategic thinker and, just as importantly, a very good person, Matthew brings just what we need to build our UK and...

If you love the 1980s – specifically, the neon-lit, Talking Heads-blaring, Delboy swagger of the 1980s Cockney – then Sky’s new crime thriller A Town Called Malice is right up your street.

Meet the Lords

Created by The Sweeney’s Nick Love, this eight-part drama centres on the Lord family, a South London gang whose criminal heyday might be behind them, but who are still up for causing trouble. After a spot of bother with a rival gang (and leaving a policeman for dead), they flee to Spain’s Costa del Sol to lay low, and in amongst the pina coladas and palm trees realise they have a chance to recapture their former glory and become criminal top dogs once more.

The series premiered on Sky Max at 9pm on Thursday 16th March, and the full box-set is already available to watch on Now.

Who’s in the cast of A Town Called Malice?...

It's a good time to be named Charlie Cox. Netflix's — and now Marvel's — "Daredevil" star is set to lead the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the blind lawyer with excessive Catholic guilt in "Daredevil: Born Again." With that renewed social currency, Cox is finding a wealth of other stories to tell. Among them is Netflix's upcoming limited series, "Treason," which the United Kingdoms and Ireland branch of the streaming juggernaut's Twitter account revealed the show's release date.

The announcement came bundled with a collection of first-look images showcasing Cox and some of his fellow cast members (more on them later) all looking very serious in suits and bulletproof vests. Considering "Treason" is set to be a spy thriller piece in the same vein as "James Bond" and "The Bourne Identity," the attire seems appropriate.

As of this writing, the newest information available is literally less than...

Margaret Colin has hit the Hallmark jackpot with her first movie for the network, Three Wise Men and a Baby.

If you're a fan, you know she starred as Tom Selleck's girlfriend in Three Men and a Baby, so it's a super fun callback, and her Three Wise Men and a Baby role as the mother to three of Hallmark's top actors, is really fun, too.

Most people will be familiar with Margaret from her many other roles in TV and film. She started in soap operas at 19, starring opposite Oscar-winner Kim Hunter on Edge of Night, starred opposite Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman in the blockbuster Independence Day, and more recently had a role on Chicago Med as Carol Conte.

While we connected over Three Wise men and a Baby, I would have been remiss not to get her thoughts on her other work, and Margaret shared her memories freely.

Exclusive: Game of Thrones alum John Bradley is set as the lead of North Shore, a Paramount+ crime thriller series from Cold Feet creator Mike Bullen. Downton Abbey‘s Joanne Froggatt has closed a one-year deal to star in the six-episode first season of the Australian original.

Set on and around Sydney Harbour, North Shore follows the clash of cultures when British and Australian detectives team to solve a complex murder mystery, and uncover a conspiracy with international political consequences.

2022 Paramount+ Pilots & Series Orders

The series centers on Max Wylie (Bradley), a British detective who, offside with his colleagues, is seconded to Australia to observe the investigation into the suspicious death of a young woman, the daughter of a British cabinet minister.

When Max travels to Australia his life is at a crossroads. His boss doubts Max is a team player and questions whether he has a future in the police,...

Exclusive: The ensemble cast of Kevin Costner’s Civil War western, Horizon, continues to grow with Dickinson and star of recent Telluride world premiere, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Ella Hunt, joining the cast.

That big cast now includes Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jamie Campbell Bower, Luke Wilson, Thomas Haden Church, Jena Malone, Alejandro Edda, Tatanka Means, Michael Rooker and Isabelle Fuhrman.

Costner is producing through his Territory Pictures, and is directing, starring and co-wrote the movie which returns him to the Civil War era, his first in the time period since the multi-Oscar winning Dances With Wolves. Jon Baird co-wrote the Warner Bros./New Line project. Costner returns to directing after his 2003 critically acclaimed western, Open Range.

Horizon chronicles a multi-faceted 15-year span of pre-and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American west. Experienced through the eyes of many, the epic journey is fraught with peril and intrigue from the constant onslaught of natural elements,...

Jed Mercurio’s Htm Television’s is working on Payback, a six-part crime drama for the UK’s ITV and Britbox International. Morven Christie, Peter Mullan and Prasanna Puwanarajah are leading the cast, and screenwriter Debbie O’Malley is writing.

Billed as a “compelling character-led series,” Payback will follows Lexie Noble,, as she becomes entangled in a perilous police operation to topple a notorious crime lord, Cal Morris. Puwanarajah and Derek Riddell play financial investigators looking into Lexie’s husband Jared, who has been laundering Cal’s illegal earnings behind her back.

Htm Television Creative Director Jed Mercurio is working alongside Hill, his Htm partner Madonna Baptiste and Diederick Santer on behalf of BritBox International on the series.

Paramount+ is launching its latest crime thriller down under.

The streaming service has set a series from Mike Bullen, creator of hit British comedy drama Cold Feet, as its latest Australian original.

North Shore is a six-part series set on and around Sydney Harbour. It follows the clash of cultures when British and Australian detectives team to solve a complex murder mystery, and uncover a conspiracy with international political consequences.

The series is produced by Beach Road Pictures, the production company set up by former Playmaker bosses David Maher and David Taylor. It is directed by Gregor Jordan (Two Hands) with writing from Marcia Gardner (The Doctor Blake Mysteries).

It is financed in part by Screen Australia, which unveiled its latest funding round of A12 million to go to four feature films, three TV dramas and two kids series including feature film Addition from Made Up Stories, run by Big...

British actor Daisy Edgar-Jones, best known for her role as Marianne in the Hulu and BBC series “Normal People,” will be feted by the Locarno Film Festival with its Leopard Club Award.

The Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will celebrate Edgar-Jones on Aug. 5 when her latest film, Olivia Newman’s “Where the Crawdads Sing,” in which she plays the lead, will screen on the 8,000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue.

On the following day Locarno will also screen Bill Buckhurst’s coming-of-age film “Pond Life” which marked Edgar-Jones’ debut in a theatrically released feature.

She also starred opposite Sebastian Stan in the movie “Fresh,” directed by Mimi Cave which premiered at Sundance and was released on Hulu and Disney +.

Edgar-Jones trained at the National Youth Theatre before landing her first role at age 17 as a series regular in the British Comedy-Drama “Cold Feet” alongside James Nesbitt for ITV.

She has earned Critics Choice,...

Paramount+ Acquires Drama ‘Compulsion’ From Eccho Rights: Paramount+ has added a drama from its Paramount Global stablemate Channel 5 to its collection in several territories around the world. The streamer has tapped distributor Eccho Rights for Compulsion, which recently aired in the UK, for exclusive rights in Australia, Latin America and the Nordics. Moving On producer LA Productions made the show in association with Sweden-based Eccho. The family drama, from writer Sarah Deane, follows a woman on the edge of losing everything who meets a stranger who seems to have the answers to her problems. Leanne Best (Cold Feet) stars alongside Anna Chancellor (The Watch) and Hayley Mills (Pollyanna).

Australia’s ABC Welcomes ‘Long Lost Family’: Australian public broadcaster ABC has wrapped a deal for the first eight seasons of ITV family reunion series Long Lost Family with Amsterdam’s Lineup Industries. In the UK, the human interest...

The production designer on Netflix’s Bridgerton prequel Queen Charlotte has been removed from the Shonda Rhimes show due to allegations of bullying behavior on set.

Netflix confirmed to Deadline that David Arrowsmith is no longer working on the show but did not comment on why, after The Sun reported his behavior with colleagues had “crossed the line” and he had been accused of bullying.

Arrowsmith is a veteran production designer, with credits on both sides of the Atlantic for shows such as Whiskey Cavalier, Deadwater Fell and Cold Feet.

Queen Charlotte tells the story of how the young Queen’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and a societal shift, creating the Bridgerton world. It will feature the likes of Gold Roshuevel, Adjoin Anode and Ruth Gemmell.

The debate on how to end bullying in the UK business has been boiling for some time now.

Daisy Edgar-Jones has arrived in New York fresh off a trip to Milan Fashion Week. She is as willowy, doe-eyed, and dewy-skinned in person as she appeared in Normal People, the steamy 2020 series that launched the 23-year-old British actor to sudden, global fame. Yet she lets out a peal of laughter at the notion that she might have walked in a fashion show. She was just attending a Gucci event, not hitting the runway.

“I’ve got a bit of a weird walk, actually,” she muses, perched on a sleek...

It’s the beginning of the end on A Discovery of Witches. In the TV adaptation’s third and final season, Diana and Matthew return to the present to face a personal tragedy and deep political division among the creatures. The forces of conservatism seek to preserve the separation between vampires, witches and daemons; while reformers wish to dismantle the status quo. Threats from the Book of Life, the Oxford blood-rage killer, the Congregation and Peter Knox all continue, while Diana comes into her prophesied role as the witch who will change everything.

Joining the existing characters in the ongoing battle are newcomers Fernando (Olivier Huband), Ransome (Parker Sawyers), Geraldine (Genesis Lynea), Dr Roberts (Ivanno Jeremiah), and actor Toby Regbo. Season three also welcomes Peter McDonald, who takes over the existing role of Baldwin St Clair from Trystan Gravelle. Find out more about them all below, with mild spoilers right at the end.

The full-length Doctor Who Season 13 trailer is here!

Joining cast members Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, and Jacob Anderson are for Whittaker's last season are Robert Bathurst, Thaddea Graham, Blake Harrison and Kevin McNally.

The cast also includes Craig Parkinson, Sara Powell, Annabel Scholey, Gerald Kyd, and Penelope Ann McGhie.

The trailer also gives us our first look at the monsters on the way for the new episodes - Sontarans, Weeping Angels, Cybermen, and the Ood, as well as a range of new monsters, one of whom is named Karvanista.

The new season of Doctor Who airs on BBC One, BBC America, and BBC iPlayer on October 31st with further casting to be announced at a later date.

“I can’t wait for the audience to come on the Flux ride with us. It’s our biggest adventure yet with so many brilliant new characters to fall in love with.

Ringside Media, the investment arm of Newen-backed indie Ringside Studios, has bought out Lionsgate’s stake in veteran TV executive Steve November’s Further South Productions.

The London and Brighton-based Further South was founded by former Lionsgate executive November, who was previously creative director of the studio’s U.K. TV division. The production company was backed by Lionsgate since its formation in 2019 — though it’s unclear how much of a stake the company had in the business — with Ringside now taking over that backing.

Prior to joining Lionsgate, November was director of drama across all ITV channels with credits including “Marcella,” “Cold Feet,” “Innocent,” “Unforgotten,” “The Durrells,” “Grantchester” and “Victoria.” He was also the executive producer on “Coronation Street” and “Emmerdale” for many years.

“To be joining Ringside in the early days of their development is a fantastic opportunity,” said November. “They have all the knowledge and experience to...

Among the detective dramas and high-stakes thrillers due to arrive on British television in the next year or so, there are a clutch of sci-fi, supernatural and horror shows also coming our way. April saw the release of Sky One original Intergalactic – the story of a wrongly imprisoned galactic pilot who breaks out of space jail with a gang of other high-security female prisoners – and Netflix has ordered fantasy novel adaptations Half Bad, Cuckoo Song, Lockwood & Co. and The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – respectively, tales of witches, supernatural pacts, ghost-hunters, and a woman who jumps between bodies in her quest to solve a murder mystery. Coming to terrestrial TV, there’s Life After Life and The Three, stories about living multiple versions of the same life, and the miraculous child survivors of a mysterious plane crash.

On top of that, there’s plenty of true crime, thrillers, a new...

Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in the FX on Hulu limited series “Under the Banner of Heaven,” Variety has learned.

The series hails from write Dustin Lance Black and is based on the Jon Krakauer novel of the same name. In the series, a devout detective’s faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into Lds fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.

Garfield will star as Pyre, an Lds elder who is committed to his Church and family but begins to question some of the Church’s teachings through his contact with a suspected murderer. Edgar-Jones stars as Brenda, a young faithful Mormon who is the victim of a brutal murder.

Black created the series and will serve as an executive producer along with Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Samie Kim Falvey and Anna Culp for Imagine Television.

Celine Coulson, Kathryn O’Connor will join the Leeds-based indie.

UK production company Duck Soup Films is adding former Film4 executive Celine Coulson and former Big Talk executive Kathryn O’Connor to its team as executive producers.

Coulson and O’Connor will join Duck Soup from June, reporting to the company’s founders Bekki Wray-Rogers, Libby Durdy and Jessica Hoyland.

Coulson will focus on the firm’s feature film slate, with O’Connor primarily working on TV drama. However “both will cross over as the company’s approach to development often mixes cinematic methods with TV traditions and is bespoke to each project,...

British actor Paul Ritter, whose credits include HBO/Sky drama “Chernobyl” and Channel 4 comedy “Friday Night Dinner,” has died of a brain tumor. He was 54.

“It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night,” Ritter’s agent said. “He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumor.

“Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill. He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly.”

Ritter’s credits also included James Bond film “Quantum of Solace,” “Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince,” and the series “Belgravia” and “Cold Feet.” He will be seen in John Madden’s upcoming war drama “Operation Mincemeat,” which stars Colin Firth. Ritter will also be...

British actor Callum Woodhouse has signed with APA.

Woodhouse is best known for playing Tristan Farnon opposite Samuel West on PBS’ All Creatures Great and Small, a revival of the TV series about James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire.

Woodhouse also starred for four seasons in the role of Leslie Durrell on the ITV/PBS series The Durrells in Corfu, appearing opposite Keeley Hawes and Josh O’Connor. His TV credits also include Father Brown and playing Josh Marsden on Cold Feet.

On stage, Woodhouse has appeared in director Edward Hall’s Filthy Business in London, and is set to take part in ...

British actor Callum Woodhouse has signed with APA.

Woodhouse is best known for playing Tristan Farnon opposite Samuel West on PBS’ All Creatures Great and Small, a revival of the TV series about James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire.

Woodhouse also starred for four seasons in the role of Leslie Durrell on the ITV/PBS series The Durrells in Corfu, appearing opposite Keeley Hawes and Josh O’Connor. His TV credits also include Father Brown and playing Josh Marsden on Cold Feet.

Onstage, Woodhouse has appeared in director Edward Hall’s Filthy Business in London and is set to take part in a ...

Fans of James Nesbitt can soon enjoy a heavily-accented dose of the stone-faced Northern Irish actor, as he leads a gripping four-part Irish crime thriller from executive producer Jed Mercurio, the force behind police thrillers “Line of Duty” and “Bodyguard.” Written by Chris Brandon (“Red Rock), who cites “True Detective” and “The Killing” as inspiration, “Bloodlands” follows a veteran detective who must plumb his own dark past to try and solve a cold case. It will premiere this spring on Acorn TV.

Here’s more from Acorn TV’s official synopsis: “When an expensive car containing a suicide note — but no body — is pulled from the sea, veteran Northern Ireland police detective Tom Brannick (Nesbitt) instantly sees the connection to an infamous cold case that holds enormous personal significance for him — a notorious and long-buried series of mysterious disappearances. ‘Bloodlands’ follows Tom Brannick’s obsessive campaign to identify and unmask...

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Bachelor Parties or the ‘Stag Do’ as people in the U.K. will know it, aren’t the most common of places for a horror movie to take place. But here we are with Cold Feet. A group of friends rent a house for a night and in the morning find a stripper dead, a ghost inside the house, and snipers waiting for them outside. Not a good place to be.

Cold Feet takes place entirely in that one location and it’s a good example of how to make something good out of exactly that. It’s not creative in using its one space but it uses plenty of dialogue and keeps things generally comedic.

Daisy Edgar-Jones is quickly becoming a star to keep an eye on, with a breakout performance in this year’s “Normal People,” as well as roles in “Cold Feet” and the “War of the Worlds” miniseries. Now, Edgar-Jones is getting the lead role in a Hollywood feature film she deserves in the upcoming adaptation of “Where The Crawdads Sing.”

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The Hollywood Reporter has the news on “Where The Crawdads Sing,” which Sony Pictures will adapt from Delia Owens‘ debut novel with the same title.

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Daisy Edgar-Jones of “Normal People” has been cast in the role of Kya in 3000 Pictures and Hello Sunshine’s film adaptation of “Where the Crawdads Sing.”

Olivia Newman will direct the film at Sony based on Delia Owens’ New York Times bestselling novel from 2018 and a screenplay from Oscar nominee Lucy Alibar.

Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Elizabeth Gabler’s 3000 Pictures are producing the film. Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter are producing for Hello Sunshine, and Gabler, Erin Siminoff and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures.

Set against the backdrop of the mid-20th century South, “Where the Crawdads Sing” centers on a young woman named Kya who, abandoned by her family, raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. However, when her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is thrust into the spotlight, instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement...

“Atlantic Crossing,” the prestige Norwegian period drama starring Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”) as Crown Princess Märtha, and Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks”) as U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is competing at Canneseries and is being shopped by Beta Film as part of Mipcom.

Directed by Alexander Eik (“Cold Feet”), “Atlantic Crossing” tells the riveting and relatively unknown story of the Norwegian Crown Princess who became an influential figure in world politics during World War II, after Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940. The show follows Märtha’s journey from Norway to the White House where she was given refuge and became close to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Swedish star Helin, and Silje Hopland-Eik, who produced “Atlantic Crossing” at leading Norwegian banner Cinenord, spoke to Variety about the genesis and making of the series which will premiere on Norwegian broadcaster Nrk later this month and has already been...

Beta Film has closed multiple pre-sales deals on “Atlantic Crossing,” the prestige Norwegian period drama starring Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”) as Crown Princess Märtha, and Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks”) as U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ahead of its world premiere at Canneseries and Mipcom.

Sales have been struck with Italy’s Rai and Deutsche Telekom’s Magenta TV for Germany and Austria, as well as with France’ Chérie 25. The series was produced by leading Norwegian banner Cinenord for public broadcaster Nrk, and was co-produced by Beta Film, Svt and Dr.

“Atlantic Crossing” was also snatched up for Russia (more.tv), the Australian public broadcaster Sbs, Greece and

Cyprus (Forthnet) and across Eastern Europe, including Lithuania (Lrt). The event series is competing at Canneseries and will bow on Nrk on Oct. 26.

Directed by Alexander Eik (“Cold Feet”), “Atlantic Crossing” tells the riveting untold story of the Norwegian Crown Princess who became...

Daisy Edgar-Jones, one of the stars on Hulu’s breakout drama Normal People, has signed on as the lead in the Legendary social thriller Fresh, from screenwriter Lauryn Kahn and first-time feature director Mimi Cave.

Details about the film’s storyline are being kept under wraps.

Legendary acquired the project earlier this year with Hyperobject Industries’ Adam McKay and Kevin Messick attached to produce. McKay and Messick produced Kahn’s romantic comedy Ibiza for Netflix.

Edgar-Jones stood out this year for her performance as Marianne on Normal People, a series adaptation of Sally Rooney’s critically acclaimed, bestselling novel that broke a record for BBC Three marking its best week ever in streaming. The plot follows the tender but complicated relationship between Marianne and Connell (Paul Mescal) from the end of their school days in a small town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.

Edgar-Jones’ other...

“Normal People” star Daisy Edgar-Jones has signed on for the lead role in Legendary’s social thriller “Fresh.”

The project is based on Lauryn Kahn’s script with Mimi Cave directing. Legendary, which announced the Edgar-Jones casting on Tuesday, is keeping the film’s storyline under wraps. Hyperobject Industries’ Adam McKay and Kevin Messick will produce.

“Normal People,” based on Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel, broke a streaming record for BBC Three. Edgar-Jones stars as Marianne Sheridan opposite Paul Mescal’s Connell Waldron as they become romantically involved during their final days in secondary school and during their undergraduate years in Trinity College Dublin. Mescal was nominated for an Emmy as lead actor in the limited series category and Lenny Abrahamson was nominated for an episode in the limited series directing category.

McKay has been nominated for five Academy Awards, winning with Charles Randolph for the script for “The Big Short.

AMC Networks’ streaming service Acorn TV has acquired exclusive U.S. and Canadian rights to BBC One crime thriller series “Bloodlands” from Hat Trick International and executive producer Jed Mercurio.

The four-part series, written by Chris Brandon (“Red Rock”), stars James Nesbitt as a veteran detective in Northern Ireland going into his own dark past to try and solve a cold case.

“Bloodlands” will bow as an Acorn TV Original in the U.S. and Canada this fall soon after its U.K. premiere on BBC One. The series is the first commission for Hat Trick Mercurio Television (Htm), the U.K. production company co-owned by Mercurio and Hat Trick.

Don Klees, senior VP of programming, Acorn TV, said: “After Acorn TV’s success with ‘Line of Duty,’ we’re thrilled to partner with Jed Mercurio again as well as Hat Trick and talented writer Chris Brandon to bring this excellent crime thriller to U.

Noughts + Crosses, the BBC adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s bestselling Ya series, is coming to the U.S. after Peacock boarded the drama.

The streamer will air the six-part series as a Peacock Original from September 4.

Originally commissioned by the British public broadcaster in 2016, the drama launched in the UK in March.

From Victoria producer Mammoth Screen, Green Book producer Participant Media and Jay Z’s Roc Nation, the series follows two young people: Sephy, played by newcomer Masali Baduza, and Callum, played by Peaky Blinders’ Jack Rowan, who are divided by their colour but united by love.

Sephy is a ‘Cross’, a member of the black ruling class and daughter of a prominent politician. Callum is a ‘Nought’, a white member of the underclass. The two have been friends since early childhood but their relationship grows ever more complicated as they come of age. It’s the story of...

Exclusive: ITV has commissioned an extended second season of its odd-couple detective series McDonald & Dodds, starring Jason Watkins (The Crown) and Tala Gouveia (Cold Feet).

Mammoth Screen, the producer behind the upcoming BBC/Netflix series The Serpent, will produce another three feature-length episodes of ITV’s crime-of-the-week murder mystery drama. The first season, watched by 6.4M people, was just two episodes long.

It features BAFTA-winner Watkins as Detective Sergeant Dodds, a modest and unassuming figure, who is thrown together with Detective Chief Inspector Lauren McDonald, a feisty crime fighter from the London’s Metropolitan Police.

McDonald & Dodds is set against the backdrop of the historic British city of Bath, in south-west England, and is created and executive produced by Shetland writer Robert Murphy.

The three new episodes will be directed by Alex Pillai (Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina), Rebecca Rycroft (Malory Towers) and Ian Aryeh (In The Long Run).

Damien Timmer,...