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EXCLUSIVE: Sky Studios has put in development a comedy series about medieval Essex from The Great writer Ava Pickett and Big Talk Studios. Pickett, who is also penning the BBC’s Prêt-à-Porter adaptation, is behind Welcome to England, which we have learned is in early-stage development with The Outlaw…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s drama based in a Birmingham university, with a view to potentially turning it into a returnable series. The as-yet-untitled project, which follows the lives of a group of young people at one of the country’s second-largest…

EXCLUSIVE: Oregon studio Laika has brought in new talent, hiring director Pete Candeland, along with Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres, the Annie Award-winning duo together known as Headless, to develop new animated features. The appointments are effective immediately, though there’s no word yet on…

EXCLUSIVE: FX is developing a half-hour comedy series based on the 2021 This American Life segment “I Was a Teenage Smuggler.” The series will be penned by Joanna Calo, Carlos López Estrada and the story's reporter Kevin Sieff. They will serve also executive produce alongside Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp of…

EXCLUSIVE: Christine Günther and Chevy Chen, the co-founding heads of Berlin and Los Angeles-based production company Fireglory Pictures, first met in Germany via Doug Liman's executive produced series Covert Affairs. "I was handling international producing work and met Christine when I came over to…

EXCLUSIVE: After circling rights for weeks to the buzzy Vanity Fair article “True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him,” Amazon MGM Studios has locked them down, Deadline understands. Executive producer and production attachments on True Crime, True Faith are…

EXCLUSIVE: Skydance Television is bolstering its executive ranks. The Foundation and Reacher studio has hired Shelley Zimmerman and David Wolkis. Zimmerman joins as EVP, Head of Development and Wolkis becomes SVP, Physical Production. It comes a year after Matt Thunell, the former Netflix exec …

Amazon MGM Studios is adapting Marisa Meltzer’s New York Times bestselling book Glossy, an expose on the success of beauty brand Glossier and its founder Emily Weiss, for television. The project is in early development; a search for a showrunner is underway, Deadline hears. Sources tell Deadline the…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing Don't Come To L.A., a drama series project from rapper-actor YG and writer-producer Damani Johnson (The Crossover, One Piece). In Don’t Come To L.A., written by Keith Sweet II (Star Trek: Prodigy), when a low-level Los Angeles gangster is assigned to…

EXCLUSIVE: Brian Tee (Chicago Med, Expats) is set to produce the anthology limited series The Scapegoat. The project is currently being shopped around to streamers and premium cablers. Season 1, titled Tokyo Rose, will adapt the Mike Weedall historical novel, Iva, The True Story of Tokyo Rose. It…

EXCLUSIVE: A modern TV series remake of The Wombles is in the works with Ipcress File producer Altitude Television. The TV arm of Altitude Media Group is forging a fresh version of the beloved animated British family series about a secretive group of furry creatures who live beneath Wimbledon Common…

Disney Branded Television is in early development on a live-action reboot of the mid-90s animated television series Gargoyles for Disney+, Deadline has confirmed. The project hails from Annabelle writer Gary Dauberman and James Wan’s Atomic Monster. Based on the cult classic Disney animated series…