Jesse joined Deadline in 2022 from UK TV trade Broadcast, where he had most recently been Insight Editor, overseeing features and long-form reporting. He worked across editing and commissioning and wrote news, features and long-read articles for Broadcast’s monthly magazine and website. A veteran entertainment industry journalist, he has also worked at Television Business International, where he was Editor, and at C21. He is based in London.
EXCLUSIVE: More citizens will head to the polls this year for elections than any other in history, and the political fever has reached Series Mania.
This year’s event in Lille, France contains four political dramas in competition — not surprising given almost 50% of the world will vote for new…
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EXCLUSIVE: France TV Distribution will be at Series Mania next week with Enjoy!, a drama series based on Benoit Marchisio’s novel Tout Complices!.
The series was originally created for France Télévisions’ streamer France.tv Slash and is now headed for the international market via the sales arm of the…
Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan will play identical twins in a Netflix drama out of the UK.
Unveiled at a Next on Netflix event this evening in London, The Undertow is a crime noir series that will see the Irishman take on the dual roles of identical twins Adam and Lee.
Suffocating in a…
EXCLUSIVE: Dominic Savage’s Close to You has its European premiere today at London’s LGBTQ festival BFI Flare, and we’ve got an exclusive clip from the Elliot Page feature for you here.
Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy) is attending the premiere and a talk on the film tomorrow.
Pic follows Sam…
Universal Television Alternative Studio (UTAS) is getting into business with Depp V. Heard producer Empress Films.
The Universal Studio Group-owned UTAS has struck an exclusive first-look deal with the UK indie, which filmmaker Emma Cooper launched in 2020.
Empress is known for Netflix and…
Fox’s free streamer Tubi has added more than 200 movies to its service in Canada through a string of deals with the U.S. majors.
Library deals have been struck with NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery for franchise blockbusters and classic movies.
An agreement…
Netflix’s upcoming arctic comedy finally has a name and has rounded out cast, as it goes into production in snowy Nunavut, Canada.
Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s North of North began production today. The comedy follows a young Inuk mother (Anna Lambe) who wants to build a new…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has picked up UK rights to Kaur, a short film that debuted last year on British streamers ITVX and BritBox.
The film is set to drop on Netflix in the second window on May 3 following the deal for film, which is from Parvinder Shergill and Juggy Sohal. Shergill stars opposite…
The Curtis Brown Group is pushing into the UK unscripted space.
The UTA-owned agency, best known for its literary department, has created Curtis Brown Group Unscripted and Entertainment (CBG U&E). Former YMU agent Marta Atack has been hired to run the unit, which launches with several…
Netflix Germany unveiled a pair of feature films, including Wiedemann & Berg title Brick, true-crime docs and a reality competition series this evening at a showcase in Berlin.
The sizeable slate announcement, which comes a day before a similar UK event, is notable given that Germany’s TV producers…
The world’s first law governing artificial intelligence (AI) was today adopted by European lawmakers — a move that could have significant impact on film and TV production.
The Artificial Intelligence Act are an attempt to government how companies and individuals use AI, as use of generative systems…