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: Here’s a New Year’s teaser for a comically gruesome Euro drama from Bad Sisters co-creator Malin-Sarah Gozin.
Dead End (Dood Spoor) is a six-part drama out of Belgium starring Peter Van den Begin and Elise Schaap about a man with a peculiar eating disorder that makes him a potentially…
Next year promises to be a hot one for European productions, with everything from Netflix’s Italian period drama The Leopard to Max Turkey’s The First Göktürk drawing audiences to non-English-language fare. Throw in the second season of young adult crowd pleaser Maxton Hall: The World Between Us and Prime…
When Laura Fernández Espeso sits down in Grup Mediapro’s General Director seat for the first time on January 1, it will mark the latest notable step in a career that began in indie film working with award-winning directors Francis Ford Coppola, Danis Tanović and Ken Loach. In her first interview as…
Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satantic Verses hadn’t been sold in India, the country of the author’s birth, for 36 years, until this week.
The novel, which forced the India-born author into hiding after its publication in 1988, has gone on sale at Bahrisons Booksellers in New Delhi, and the news has been…
EXCLUSIVE: Apple has hired an ex-Sky vet to lead its international video team.
Catherine Lees joined earlier this month in the International Director – TV – Apple role. She replaces Chiara Cipriani, who we are told has moved into a different role and who Lees will report to.
In a post on…
EXCLUSIVE: John Robson is leaving Moonbug Entertainment, the kids content company he co-founded, Deadline has learned.
Moonbug is owned by Candle Media and has the lucrative CoComelon franchise. Robson's fellow Co-Founder, Rene Rechtman told staff about the news in a memo circulated today.
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Canadian film and TV production volume fell to pre-pandemic levels in the 2023/24 period as a commissioning slowdown and the U.S. labor strikes bit, a report from the country’s screen producers body shows.
Volume was down 18.5% to C$9.58B ($6.68B) in the 12 months between April 1, 2023 and March 31…
EXCLUSIVE:The Office Movers are back in business.
Canadian streamer Crave has ordered a second season of the comedy series from Jae and Trey Richards, with Justin Stockman, Vice President, Content Development and Programming at Crave parent Bell Media calling it a “hit.” Note: Minor spoilers…
Matthew Lewis will star in Murder Before Evensong, the Acorn TV and Channel 5 murder mystery drama we told you about last month.
The Harry Potter star will play Canon Daniel Clement in the series, which is based on the first novel in a best-selling book series from Strictly Come Dancing contestant…
EXCLUSIVE: Icelandic streamer SÃminn has boarded Reykjavik Noir, a series adaptation of Lilja Sigurdardottir’s crime novel trilogy.
Glassriver, the Icelandic producer behind Cold Haven and As Long As We Live, is producing after acquiring the rights to the novels in a deal brokered the Reykjavik…
Here’s the trailer for Shared Custody, the Spanish-language Disney+ comedy-drama series from Javier Fesser.
The eight-part show, from Fremantle-backed producer The Immigrant, is due to launch globally on January 24, 2025, as Campeones (Champions) and Camino director Fesser’s first foray into TV. We…