All Drama articles – Page 242
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RatingsHappy Valley arrests biggest ever performance
TUESDAY: Red Production Company’s gritty BBC1 drama Happy Valley returned with its best-ever performance.
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NewsMainstreet develops period drama with Hammer
Unforgotten producer Mainstreet Pictures has partnered with classic horror firm Hammer to develop a period drama.
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NewsStarz orders White Queen follow-up
US cable network Starz has commissioned a follow-up to The White Queen from Company Pictures three years after the fantasy drama launched.
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NewsC4 to pump £25m into Film 4
Channel 4 is to inject an additional £10m into Film 4 over the next 12 months – taking its funding to a record £25m.
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RatingsThe X-Files boosts C5 to five-year high
MONDAY: The return of The X-Files helped Channel 5 to its biggest audience for five years - and became its most successful US import since CSI.
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NewsWar and Peace sold to Russia
BBC1 drama War and Peace is to be translated into Russian after commercial broadcaster Channel One acquired the six-part drama.
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NewsWar and Peace producer revisits Les Misérables adaptation
Lookout Point is preparing to open talks with the BBC over Andrew Davies’ follow-up to War and Peace - an adaption of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.
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RatingsWar and Peace bows out with 5.7m
SUNDAY: War and Peace’s feature-length finale bowed out with its second-biggest audience of the series, as Countryfile pulled in its biggest audience in at least a decade.
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NewsKudos co-founder launches scripted indie
Kudos co-founder Stephen Garrett has launched scripted production business, Character Seven, and begun developing a supernatural series for Hulu.
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NewsWildgaze developing Brooklyn TV spin-off for BBC
Wildgaze Films is developing a TV spin-off to Oscar and Bafta-nominated Brooklyn, the company’s producers Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey have confirmed to Broadcast sister-magazine Screen.
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NewsBBC1 orders Rillington Place drama
Endomol Shine Group’s fledgling label Bandit Television is to co-produce a dramatisation of the notorious Rillington Place murders for BBC1.
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NewsHillbilly lands debut ITV drama
Hillbilly Films, the indie responsible for Channel 4’s Bafta-award single Random, has scored its first ITV commission.
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RatingsLucky Man sheds 200k
FRIDAY: Stan Lee’s Lucky Man lost a third of its audience on Sky 1 as Derby County’s clash with Manchester United in the FA Cup peaked with a crowd of almost 6m.
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RatingsJericho overhauled by Celebrity Big Brother
THURSDAY: Jericho was overhauled by Celebrity Big Brother as the ITV drama slumped to a series low.
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NewsSky 1 develops Game of Thrones-style drama
Sky 1 is developing a feature-length fantasy drama based on Jasper Fforde’s novel The Last Dragonslayer as it hunts its own Game of Thrones.
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NewsCreative industries generate record £84bn for UK
The creative industries are worth a record £84.1bn to the UK economy, according to official figures released at a time when the government is mulling radical changes to broadcasting.
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NewsPinewood launches TV production arm
Pinewood Group has recruited the producer of Fortitude, The Enfield Haunting and The Last Kingdom to lead its newly-formed TV production company.
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NewsBBC3 partners with Idris Elba as it braces for online move
BBC3 has struck a partnership with Idris Elba’s production company Green Door Pictures to produce short films showcasing new talent, as the channel gears up for its digital switch.
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NewsJekyll & Hyde censured by Ofcom
ITV has been rapped after the “violent and graphic” nature of Sunday teatime drama Jekyll & Hyde breached Ofcom rules.
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NewsCreative Skillset to grow drama talent pool
Creative Skillset will help 10 production staff step up to become drama producers as part of a placement scheme run alongside some of the UK’s top indies.