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EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios has revealed how much it paid to bolster its international production footprint earlier this year with the acquisitions of Australia’s Werner Film Productions and Spain’s Brutal Media. BBC Studios paid an initial consideration of AUD$6M ($4M) for 100% of Werner, the company…

EXCLUSIVE: Neil Gaiman is understood to have offered to step back from the third and final season of Prime Video’s fantasy drama Good Omens. Deadline revealed on Monday that pre-production had paused on the BBC Studios-produced show in the wake of allegations made by four women against Gaiman, which…

Top Gear presenter Chris Harris has ripped open the bonnet on one of the darkest chapters in the motoring show’s history — and it makes ugly listening for the BBC. Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, Harris revealed that he warned the BBC that "someone is going to die" on Top Gear unless health…

BBC Studios has entered the Korean content game in a big way. The BBC’s commercial outfit has partnered with the Korean Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will see the “production, investment, and distribution of global broadcast and video content” between the…

Disney has hailed Doctor Who as a “really good fit” for Disney+ amid industry chatter over whether its ambitious co-production deal with the BBC has been a success. Liam Keelan, Disney’s SVP of original productions in EMEA, said the company was “happy to have” the Ncuti Gatwa sci-fi series on Disney+…

Toto, I don’t think we’re in Scranton anymore. The Office is officially going Down Under with a new Australian update on the hit comedy series. Prime Video announced Monday that the Australian Original The Office will debut all eight episodes Oct. 18 on the streamer while revealing a first-look image…

Former BBC Studios drama boss Priscilla Parish has headed in the opposite direction to Zai Bennett. Parish has joined Sky Studios as Senior Executive Producer in the scripted team, coming soon after it was revealed Bennett is leaving Sky to head up BBC Studios Productions. Parish headed up…

EXCLUSIVE: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder producer Moonage Pictures is on the sales block, Deadline has learned. We understand that BBC Studios will retain a minority interest in the company it took a stake in in 2018 for the time being, although this could change depending on who comes in for…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley mysteries are being given a new lease of life. More than 15 years on from the closer of the BBC’s mid-noughties adaptation, BritBox International, Wolf Hall producer Playground and Salt Films are developing Lynley, a new version, which is being penned by…

Sky Content MD Zai Bennett is heading to BBC Studios. The UK programs chief of the Comcast-owned pay-TV giant will run BBC Studios Productions, a job that has been vacant for several months and one of the most talked about in the British industry. He replaces Ralph Lee. Bennett will oversee a…

EXCLUSIVE: BritBox International is operating “autonomously” and free of “creative pressure” from the BBC, according to its president, who branded the streamer “the best route to market for British TV outside of the UK.” Robert Schildhouse was speaking to Deadline for the first time since being promot…

The boss of the BBC has apologized for the Strictly Come Dancing scandal, saying “with the benefit of hindsight we should have done more” but positing that this year’s contestants are “itching to get going.” Tim Davie was asked mounds of questions by journalists about the scandal, the current review…