Today, ahead of its inaugural upfront presentation on May 14, Prime Video revealed the trailer and new key art for The Outlaws Season 3. All five episodes of the comedy thriller from creator, star, and award-winning writer and director Stephen Merchant will debut on May 31, 2024.
The series follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. The third season will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nordics.
With crime boss The Dean behind bars awaiting trial, the Outlaws are moving on with their lives—until one of their own returns with a deadly secret, hurling them back into mortal danger.
As a murder manhunt closes in on the gang, can they prove their innocence before The Dean’s case collapses, and he comes looking for revenge?
Stephen Merchant (The Office) returns as Greg, along with Rhianne Barreto as Rani,...
The series follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. The third season will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nordics.
With crime boss The Dean behind bars awaiting trial, the Outlaws are moving on with their lives—until one of their own returns with a deadly secret, hurling them back into mortal danger.
As a murder manhunt closes in on the gang, can they prove their innocence before The Dean’s case collapses, and he comes looking for revenge?
Stephen Merchant (The Office) returns as Greg, along with Rhianne Barreto as Rani,...
- 5/7/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
“The Outlaws” are back for Season 3. The five-episode season of the comedy thriller is created by lead actor and director Stephen Merchant. The series follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. Now, with crime boss The Dean (Claes Bang) behind bars awaiting trial, the Outlaws are moving on with their lives — until one of their own returns with a deadly secret, hurling them back into mortal danger. As a murder manhunt closes in on the gang, can they prove their innocence before The Dean’s case collapses, and he comes looking for revenge?
In addition to Merchant, Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Jessica Gunning, Darren Boyd, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Charles Babalola, Tom Hanson, and Christopher Walken return.
“The Outlaws” streams on Prime Video. The third season will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand,...
In addition to Merchant, Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Jessica Gunning, Darren Boyd, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Charles Babalola, Tom Hanson, and Christopher Walken return.
“The Outlaws” streams on Prime Video. The third season will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand,...
- 5/7/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Maria Menounos’ new show “Maria: Discover More” is set to launch on ReachTV. The magazine style talk series will play daily at 2,400 gates at 90 airports and 500 thousand hotel rooms. It will cover travel, wellness, beauty, cooking, fashion, finance and entertainment.
In addition to “Maria: Discover More,” Menounos will also host and produce “Maria At the Airport Trivia” for ReachTV. The new game show is designed for families to play along while waiting for flights.
“My passion today is to work on content that is either of service or fun and with ReachTV and the shows Keven [Undergaro] created, I get to do both,” said Menounos.
In other TV roundup news:
Programming
Comedy series “Bob Hearts Abishola,” from creator, executive producer and writer Chuck Lorre, will launch nationwide in syndication beginning in the fall. The series was sold by Warner Bros. Discovery Content Sales, joining fellow Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre...
In addition to “Maria: Discover More,” Menounos will also host and produce “Maria At the Airport Trivia” for ReachTV. The new game show is designed for families to play along while waiting for flights.
“My passion today is to work on content that is either of service or fun and with ReachTV and the shows Keven [Undergaro] created, I get to do both,” said Menounos.
In other TV roundup news:
Programming
Comedy series “Bob Hearts Abishola,” from creator, executive producer and writer Chuck Lorre, will launch nationwide in syndication beginning in the fall. The series was sold by Warner Bros. Discovery Content Sales, joining fellow Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre...
- 4/25/2024
- by Selena Kuznikov and Jack Dunn
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Nina Lederman, Sony Pictures Television’s global scripted boss, is exiting amid the slowdown.
Veteran TV exec Lederman is leaving in June after six years heading up global scripted development and programing for Spt, with the group understood to be pivoting focus to the core businesses of local international production.
Based in LA, Lederman joined Spt in 2018 to head the global scripted team, working closely with indies in the UK and Australia such as The Crown producer Left Bank, His Dark Materials maker Bad Wolf and Artful Dodger indie Curio Media. As EVP, Global Scripted Development, she worked on development, U.S. pre-sales and international co-productions, with credits including Netflix hit My Life with the Walter Boys and MGM+’s Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue.
Lederman will leave in June. Her role is being eliminated and responsibilities being reallocated within the group, we understand, and no others are leaving.
Veteran TV exec Lederman is leaving in June after six years heading up global scripted development and programing for Spt, with the group understood to be pivoting focus to the core businesses of local international production.
Based in LA, Lederman joined Spt in 2018 to head the global scripted team, working closely with indies in the UK and Australia such as The Crown producer Left Bank, His Dark Materials maker Bad Wolf and Artful Dodger indie Curio Media. As EVP, Global Scripted Development, she worked on development, U.S. pre-sales and international co-productions, with credits including Netflix hit My Life with the Walter Boys and MGM+’s Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue.
Lederman will leave in June. Her role is being eliminated and responsibilities being reallocated within the group, we understand, and no others are leaving.
- 4/24/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Today, Prime Video revealed the premiere date and first-look photos for the third season of the fan-favorite series, The Outlaws. All five episodes of the comedy thriller from creator, star, and award-winning writer and director Stephen Merchant will debut on May 31, 2024.
The series follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. The third season will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nordics.
With crime boss The Dean behind bars awaiting trial, The Outlaws are moving on with their lives—until one of their own returns with a deadly secret, hurling them back into mortal danger.
As a murder manhunt closes in on the gang, can they prove their innocence before The Dean’s case collapses, and he comes looking for revenge?
Stephen Merchant (The Office) returns as Greg, along with Rhianne Barreto as Rani,...
The series follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. The third season will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nordics.
With crime boss The Dean behind bars awaiting trial, The Outlaws are moving on with their lives—until one of their own returns with a deadly secret, hurling them back into mortal danger.
As a murder manhunt closes in on the gang, can they prove their innocence before The Dean’s case collapses, and he comes looking for revenge?
Stephen Merchant (The Office) returns as Greg, along with Rhianne Barreto as Rani,...
- 4/23/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
In a milestone move, Sony Pictures Television has unveiled “La Academia,” its first Spanish-language scripted series filmed in Spain for Prime Video and 3Cat.
“La Academia” is produced for Sony by Brutal Media, commissioned out of Sony Pictures Television’s international production group. Spt is distributing the series worldwide.
A scripted young adult drama series which Spt describes as being set in the high-pressure, high-drama world of elite youth soccer and its rising stars, ‘La Academia’ takes place at the Spanish training centre of the Apolo F.C., one of the best professional soccer clubs in the world.
There boys and girls from different social backgrounds fight for a shared dream which will inevitably create fiction between them: to make the first team and become the world’s next top players.
The young cast is led by new Spanish talent such as Ton Vieira, Marc Soler (“Upa Next”), Mia Sala-Patau...
“La Academia” is produced for Sony by Brutal Media, commissioned out of Sony Pictures Television’s international production group. Spt is distributing the series worldwide.
A scripted young adult drama series which Spt describes as being set in the high-pressure, high-drama world of elite youth soccer and its rising stars, ‘La Academia’ takes place at the Spanish training centre of the Apolo F.C., one of the best professional soccer clubs in the world.
There boys and girls from different social backgrounds fight for a shared dream which will inevitably create fiction between them: to make the first team and become the world’s next top players.
The young cast is led by new Spanish talent such as Ton Vieira, Marc Soler (“Upa Next”), Mia Sala-Patau...
- 2/23/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Outlaws producer Big Talk Studios is developing its first TV thriller, a high-stakes series about a drug-smuggling submarine.
Big Talk boss Kenton Allen described Vulture as a cross between Below Deck and Narcos.
Penned by BAFTA-nominated Cyberbully writer David Lobatto, the series, which is being developed in association with ITV Studios, follows the crew on-board a ‘narco-sub’ on its way to deliver a $200 million payload of base cocaine to the Albanian mob. After a perilous journey across the Atlantic, the sub is ambushed by a rival cartel. Following a narrow escape with their cargo intact, but with a severely damaged submarine, the crew find themselves marooned in the middle of the Adriatic Sea.
Allen, who is EPing alongside Luke Alkin, called Vulture a “highly dynamic, action-packed series that we know will cut through in this very crowded market and thrill audiences around the world with this ultimate culture-clash high stakes drama.
Big Talk boss Kenton Allen described Vulture as a cross between Below Deck and Narcos.
Penned by BAFTA-nominated Cyberbully writer David Lobatto, the series, which is being developed in association with ITV Studios, follows the crew on-board a ‘narco-sub’ on its way to deliver a $200 million payload of base cocaine to the Albanian mob. After a perilous journey across the Atlantic, the sub is ambushed by a rival cartel. Following a narrow escape with their cargo intact, but with a severely damaged submarine, the crew find themselves marooned in the middle of the Adriatic Sea.
Allen, who is EPing alongside Luke Alkin, called Vulture a “highly dynamic, action-packed series that we know will cut through in this very crowded market and thrill audiences around the world with this ultimate culture-clash high stakes drama.
- 9/19/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The cast of ‘The Outlaws’ (Photo Credit: BBC Studios)
Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws will return for a third season on Prime Video and BBC One. Filming on the new season of the critically acclaimed comedy is currently underway in and around Bristol.
“After the overwhelming response to the first two series, I’m delighted to be bringing back our lovable band of miscreants for more misadventures. Audiences have really taken the characters to their hearts, so I can’t wait for them to see what hot water we’ve thrown them into this time. And I’m thrilled we’ll once again be filming in my hometown of Bristol. I expect I’ll be welcomed with a ticker-tape parade. It didn’t happen on the previous series, but I put that down to Covid,” said Stephen Merchant.
Merchant co-created the series with Elgin James (Mayans M.C.) and writes,...
Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws will return for a third season on Prime Video and BBC One. Filming on the new season of the critically acclaimed comedy is currently underway in and around Bristol.
“After the overwhelming response to the first two series, I’m delighted to be bringing back our lovable band of miscreants for more misadventures. Audiences have really taken the characters to their hearts, so I can’t wait for them to see what hot water we’ve thrown them into this time. And I’m thrilled we’ll once again be filming in my hometown of Bristol. I expect I’ll be welcomed with a ticker-tape parade. It didn’t happen on the previous series, but I put that down to Covid,” said Stephen Merchant.
Merchant co-created the series with Elgin James (Mayans M.C.) and writes,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
“The Outlaws” has been picked up for a third season by Amazon Prime Video and BBC One. As the latest addition to the Prime membership, the third season will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nordics.
The comedic thriller follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol.
Season 3 will pick up with crime boss The Dean behind bars awaiting trial, leaving the crew of outlaws to move on with their lives — until one of their own returns with a deadly secret that threatens their lives as they know it. As a murderous manhunt closes in on the gang, the group attempts to prove their innocence before The Dean’s case falls apart and he hunts them down for revenge.
Stephen Merchant returns to the series as Greg, along with Rhianne Barreto as Rani,...
The comedic thriller follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol.
Season 3 will pick up with crime boss The Dean behind bars awaiting trial, leaving the crew of outlaws to move on with their lives — until one of their own returns with a deadly secret that threatens their lives as they know it. As a murderous manhunt closes in on the gang, the group attempts to prove their innocence before The Dean’s case falls apart and he hunts them down for revenge.
Stephen Merchant returns to the series as Greg, along with Rhianne Barreto as Rani,...
- 5/9/2023
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Comedy thriller The Outlaws will be back for a third season. Prime Video and BBC One today announced the renewal of the series from Stephen Merchant (The Office) and co-creator Elgin James (Mayans M.C.).
It follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. The third season will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nordics.
With crime boss The Dean (Claes Bang) behind bars awaiting trial, The Outlaws are moving on with their lives—until one of their own returns with a deadly secret, hurling them back into mortal danger. As a murder manhunt closes in on the gang, can they prove their innocence before The Dean’s case collapses, and he comes looking for revenge?
Stephen Merchant returns to the series as Greg, along with Rhianne Barreto as Rani, Gamba Cole as Ben,...
It follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. The third season will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nordics.
With crime boss The Dean (Claes Bang) behind bars awaiting trial, The Outlaws are moving on with their lives—until one of their own returns with a deadly secret, hurling them back into mortal danger. As a murder manhunt closes in on the gang, can they prove their innocence before The Dean’s case collapses, and he comes looking for revenge?
Stephen Merchant returns to the series as Greg, along with Rhianne Barreto as Rani, Gamba Cole as Ben,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exec will report into Spt’s president of international productions Wayne Garvie.
Sony Pictures Television (Spt) has appointed Big Talk managing director Matthew Justice to the newly created role of EVP, head of UK & Europe.
Justice, who announced earlier this week that he was stepping down from The Outlaws producer Big Talk after 16 years, will report into Wayne Garvie, Spt’s president of international productions.
Justice will manage Spt’s international studio operations and European co-productions business, and work closely with Spt production labels and joint ventures. These include: Bad Wolf (His Dark Materials), Eleven Films (Sex Education), Left Bank Pictures...
Sony Pictures Television (Spt) has appointed Big Talk managing director Matthew Justice to the newly created role of EVP, head of UK & Europe.
Justice, who announced earlier this week that he was stepping down from The Outlaws producer Big Talk after 16 years, will report into Wayne Garvie, Spt’s president of international productions.
Justice will manage Spt’s international studio operations and European co-productions business, and work closely with Spt production labels and joint ventures. These include: Bad Wolf (His Dark Materials), Eleven Films (Sex Education), Left Bank Pictures...
- 4/27/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Television has appointed Matthew Justice as executive VP and head of U.K. and Europe.
In the newly created role, he will report into Wayne Garvie, president of International Productions. Justice will directly manage Spt’s international studio operations and European co-productions business, as well as work closely with Spt International Production’s wholly-owned and joint venture production companies in the region, which includes Bad Wolf, Eleven Films and Left Bank Pictures.
Justice most recently served as managing director at ITV Studios-backed Big Talk. He will start at Spt later this year.
Garvie said: “Matthew is a highly respected figure in the U.K. television and film industry — together he and Kenton Allen have built Big Talk into a significant international player. A smart operator, a strategic thinker and, just as importantly, a very good person, Matthew brings just what we need to build our UK and...
In the newly created role, he will report into Wayne Garvie, president of International Productions. Justice will directly manage Spt’s international studio operations and European co-productions business, as well as work closely with Spt International Production’s wholly-owned and joint venture production companies in the region, which includes Bad Wolf, Eleven Films and Left Bank Pictures.
Justice most recently served as managing director at ITV Studios-backed Big Talk. He will start at Spt later this year.
Garvie said: “Matthew is a highly respected figure in the U.K. television and film industry — together he and Kenton Allen have built Big Talk into a significant international player. A smart operator, a strategic thinker and, just as importantly, a very good person, Matthew brings just what we need to build our UK and...
- 4/27/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Sony Pictures Television has bolstered its international team with the hire of respected UK scripted producer Matthew Justice.
Deadline revealed on Monday that Justice was leaving The Outlaws producer Big Talk Studios after 16 years, though his destination was unknown.
Sony has today announced that Justice will join in the newly-created role of EVP, Head of UK & Europe, reporting to Wayne Garvie, President of International Productions. He is expected to join in the fall.
Justice will oversee Sony’s international studio operations, European co-productions, and work closely with its production partners, including The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures and Bad Wolf, which is currently shooting Doctor Who.
Garvie said: “A smart operator, a strategic thinker and, just as importantly, a very good person, Matthew brings just what we need to build our UK and Europe business into an even greater force.”
Justice added: “Helping to grow the Spt UK and European...
Deadline revealed on Monday that Justice was leaving The Outlaws producer Big Talk Studios after 16 years, though his destination was unknown.
Sony has today announced that Justice will join in the newly-created role of EVP, Head of UK & Europe, reporting to Wayne Garvie, President of International Productions. He is expected to join in the fall.
Justice will oversee Sony’s international studio operations, European co-productions, and work closely with its production partners, including The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures and Bad Wolf, which is currently shooting Doctor Who.
Garvie said: “A smart operator, a strategic thinker and, just as importantly, a very good person, Matthew brings just what we need to build our UK and Europe business into an even greater force.”
Justice added: “Helping to grow the Spt UK and European...
- 4/27/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Big Talk Productions is renaming itself Big Talk Studios and is reshuffling its top team as Matthew Justice departs after 16 years.
The British producer behind Amazon’s The Outlaws is rebranding with an eye on the U.S., where it has just wrapped Dinner With The Parents for Freevee, a remake of Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner.
Managing Director Justice is leaving in the fall for a new role, which is expected to be announced later this week. He has worked at Big Talk for 16 years and has a close relationship with CEO Kenton Allen, which will continue as part of a transition process over the coming months.
Justice has Executive Produced films such as Attack the Block and BAFTA-winning series including Rev and Him & Her. He helped oversee Big Talk’s sale to ITV Studios in 2013 for £30M ($37M).
Big Talk’s new logo
Christina Angeloudes, Big...
The British producer behind Amazon’s The Outlaws is rebranding with an eye on the U.S., where it has just wrapped Dinner With The Parents for Freevee, a remake of Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner.
Managing Director Justice is leaving in the fall for a new role, which is expected to be announced later this week. He has worked at Big Talk for 16 years and has a close relationship with CEO Kenton Allen, which will continue as part of a transition process over the coming months.
Justice has Executive Produced films such as Attack the Block and BAFTA-winning series including Rev and Him & Her. He helped oversee Big Talk’s sale to ITV Studios in 2013 for £30M ($37M).
Big Talk’s new logo
Christina Angeloudes, Big...
- 4/24/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Tubi has announced its first unscripted cooking series, “Kitchen Commando,” hosted by US Army Master Sergeant and White House chef Andre Rush. Executive produced by Gordon Ramsay, the new series enlists Chef Andre to help save struggling restaurants and reignite their passion for the service industry.
Over the 10-episode season, Chef Rush will visit restaurants in the D.C. area that are in need of his discipline, resourcefulness and talents to whip these restaurants back into shape. Chef Rush’s skills will be put the test in the first episode, when he meets a defeated married couple whose crab-themed restaurant is now a toxic mess.
“Kitchen Commando” premieres on February 12, 2023 with a new episode rolling out every Sunday for ten weeks. “Kitchen Commando” is a Fox Alternative Entertainment and Studio Ramsay Global production.
Also in today’s TV news:
Renewals
“Say Yes to the Prom” is back for its 11th...
Over the 10-episode season, Chef Rush will visit restaurants in the D.C. area that are in need of his discipline, resourcefulness and talents to whip these restaurants back into shape. Chef Rush’s skills will be put the test in the first episode, when he meets a defeated married couple whose crab-themed restaurant is now a toxic mess.
“Kitchen Commando” premieres on February 12, 2023 with a new episode rolling out every Sunday for ten weeks. “Kitchen Commando” is a Fox Alternative Entertainment and Studio Ramsay Global production.
Also in today’s TV news:
Renewals
“Say Yes to the Prom” is back for its 11th...
- 1/24/2023
- by Charna Flam and Julia MacCary
- Variety Film + TV
Michaela Watkins and Veep alum Dan Bakkedahl will lead the cast of Amazon Freevee’s series Dinner with the Parents, a remake of the long-running British comedy Friday Night Dinner, which is being produced by CBS Studios and Big Talk.
In the single-camera Dinner with the Parents, which has a straight-to-series order, two brothers in their 20s go to their mom (Watkins) and dad’s (Bakkedahl) for dinner each week and somehow get through it without actually, physically, dying of embarrassment.
Bakkedahl plays the dad, Harvey Langer, a “dad joke” in human form. He a suburban dentist trying to fend off a midlife crisis by wearing aloha shirts and playing in a garage band called the Spin Dentists. Desperate for attention, Harvey finds a way to make every Friday night about him.
Watkins plays the mom, Jane Langer. She just left a teaching job after 25 years and...
In the single-camera Dinner with the Parents, which has a straight-to-series order, two brothers in their 20s go to their mom (Watkins) and dad’s (Bakkedahl) for dinner each week and somehow get through it without actually, physically, dying of embarrassment.
Bakkedahl plays the dad, Harvey Langer, a “dad joke” in human form. He a suburban dentist trying to fend off a midlife crisis by wearing aloha shirts and playing in a garage band called the Spin Dentists. Desperate for attention, Harvey finds a way to make every Friday night about him.
Watkins plays the mom, Jane Langer. She just left a teaching job after 25 years and...
- 10/28/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Freevee Hands Straight-To-Series Order To U.S. Remake Of British Comedy ‘Friday Night Dinner’
Exclusive: Friday Night Dinner is coming to the U.S.
Amazon Freevee has handed a straight-to-series order to Dinner with the Parents, a remake of the long-running British comedy, which comes from former Late Show with David Letterman writer Jon Beckerman, The Outlaws producer Big Talk and CBS Studios.
It marks the fourth attempt to remake the show — which ran for nearly 10 years in the UK on Channel 4 — in the U.S. and the first to get past the development stage. It has scored a 10-episode order.
2022 Amazon Freevee Pilots & Series Orders
The British series, which ran for six seasons from 2011-20, is centered around the regular dinner experience of the middle class British Jewish Goodman family every Friday night.
The U.S. version of the half-hour single-camera comedy will follow much of this. It is centered around two brothers in their 20s go to their mom and dad...
Amazon Freevee has handed a straight-to-series order to Dinner with the Parents, a remake of the long-running British comedy, which comes from former Late Show with David Letterman writer Jon Beckerman, The Outlaws producer Big Talk and CBS Studios.
It marks the fourth attempt to remake the show — which ran for nearly 10 years in the UK on Channel 4 — in the U.S. and the first to get past the development stage. It has scored a 10-episode order.
2022 Amazon Freevee Pilots & Series Orders
The British series, which ran for six seasons from 2011-20, is centered around the regular dinner experience of the middle class British Jewish Goodman family every Friday night.
The U.S. version of the half-hour single-camera comedy will follow much of this. It is centered around two brothers in their 20s go to their mom and dad...
- 7/13/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Prime Video will release Season 2 of The Outlaws on August 5. All 6 episodes of the Amazon Original series will premiere via the streamer in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nordic countries.
From Stephen Merchant and Elgin James, The Outlaws follows a group of misfits who are brought together to do community service after breaking the law. The 7 strangers from various walks of life are dragged into a mystery that they can only survive if they work together.
Season Two picks up a few months after the events of the finale, the Outlaws still have time to serve on their sentences but quickly realize the criminal underworld isn’t done with them yet—not by a long shot. The group’s shared past comes back to haunt them, in the shape of a terrifying London drug lord out for blood—The Dean.
The series stars Rhianne Barreto as Rani,...
From Stephen Merchant and Elgin James, The Outlaws follows a group of misfits who are brought together to do community service after breaking the law. The 7 strangers from various walks of life are dragged into a mystery that they can only survive if they work together.
Season Two picks up a few months after the events of the finale, the Outlaws still have time to serve on their sentences but quickly realize the criminal underworld isn’t done with them yet—not by a long shot. The group’s shared past comes back to haunt them, in the shape of a terrifying London drug lord out for blood—The Dean.
The series stars Rhianne Barreto as Rani,...
- 6/2/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Noel Fielding will star as legendary British Highwayman Dick Turpin in a currently untitled series from Apple TV Plus.
The comedy-adventure show follows Fielding as the most famous, but least likely of highway robbers whose success is defined mostly by his charm, showmanship and great hair. Together with his gang of loveable rogues, Dick rides the highs and lows of celebrity — and does what he can to escape the clutches of the Thief Taker General.
Producing for Apple TV+ is Big Talk Productions, owned by ITV Studios.
Ben Palmer (The Inbetweeners Movie) is directing. Claire Downes, Stuart Lane, Ian Jarvis (The Outlaws) wrote and created the show, with Noel Fielding and Jeremy Dyson (League Of Gentleman) as script consultants.
Executive Producers are Kenton Allen, Noel Fielding, Victoria Grew, Matthew Justice and Ben Palmer. Top of this post and below are first-look images.
The comedy-adventure show follows Fielding as the most famous, but least likely of highway robbers whose success is defined mostly by his charm, showmanship and great hair. Together with his gang of loveable rogues, Dick rides the highs and lows of celebrity — and does what he can to escape the clutches of the Thief Taker General.
Producing for Apple TV+ is Big Talk Productions, owned by ITV Studios.
Ben Palmer (The Inbetweeners Movie) is directing. Claire Downes, Stuart Lane, Ian Jarvis (The Outlaws) wrote and created the show, with Noel Fielding and Jeremy Dyson (League Of Gentleman) as script consultants.
Executive Producers are Kenton Allen, Noel Fielding, Victoria Grew, Matthew Justice and Ben Palmer. Top of this post and below are first-look images.
- 4/12/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu has released an official trailer for “The Girl From Plainville” — a limited series inspired by the true story of Michelle Carter’s “texting suicide” case.
Based on Jesse Barron’s Esquire article of the same name, “The Girl From Plainville” dives into Carter’s (Elle Fanning) relationship with Conrad Roy III (Colton Ryan) and his following death, which led to her conviction of involuntary manslaughter.
“All he thought about was dying… I really just wanted to help him,” says Fanning’s Carter in the gripping trailer, which is full of unsettling text messages and moments both following and leading up to Roy’s death.
In addition to Fanning and Ryan, the series also stars Chloë Sevigny as Lynn Roy, Cara Buono as Gail Carter, Kai Lennox as David Carter and Norbert Leo Butz as Conrad Roy II.
Hailing from UCP of the Universal Studio Group, “The Girl From Plainville...
Based on Jesse Barron’s Esquire article of the same name, “The Girl From Plainville” dives into Carter’s (Elle Fanning) relationship with Conrad Roy III (Colton Ryan) and his following death, which led to her conviction of involuntary manslaughter.
“All he thought about was dying… I really just wanted to help him,” says Fanning’s Carter in the gripping trailer, which is full of unsettling text messages and moments both following and leading up to Roy’s death.
In addition to Fanning and Ryan, the series also stars Chloë Sevigny as Lynn Roy, Cara Buono as Gail Carter, Kai Lennox as David Carter and Norbert Leo Butz as Conrad Roy II.
Hailing from UCP of the Universal Studio Group, “The Girl From Plainville...
- 3/2/2022
- by Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Wilson Chapman and Sasha Urban
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon has renewed The Outlaws ahead of its U.S. series premiere in 2022.
The comedy-thriller from Stephen Merchant and Elgin James—a co-production between the Amazon Studios and BBC One—has already aired in its entirety in the UK. Season 2 is set to air in multiple territories following its freshman turn in the U.S.
The Outlaws follows seven strangers from different walks of life who are forced together to complete a Community Payback sentence in Bristol, England.
Stars include Merchant, Christopher Walken, Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Darren Boyd, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jessica Gunning, Charles Babalola, Nina Wadia, Tom Hanson, and Aiyana Goodfellow. All are set to return for Season 2.
For its sophomore season, the Outlaws still have time to serve on their sentences—but now they must face the fallout from their actions. If they thought the...
The comedy-thriller from Stephen Merchant and Elgin James—a co-production between the Amazon Studios and BBC One—has already aired in its entirety in the UK. Season 2 is set to air in multiple territories following its freshman turn in the U.S.
The Outlaws follows seven strangers from different walks of life who are forced together to complete a Community Payback sentence in Bristol, England.
Stars include Merchant, Christopher Walken, Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Darren Boyd, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jessica Gunning, Charles Babalola, Nina Wadia, Tom Hanson, and Aiyana Goodfellow. All are set to return for Season 2.
For its sophomore season, the Outlaws still have time to serve on their sentences—but now they must face the fallout from their actions. If they thought the...
- 11/29/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Christopher Walken series “The Outlaws” has been renewed for a second season. Walken will also return as Frank Sheldon.
Created by Stephen Merchant (“The Office”) and Elgin James (“Mayans M.C.”) the comedy thriller follows seven convicts completing community service in Bristol, U.K.
The second season, which has already wrapped and is due to air next year, follows on directly from season 1. Both seasons were filmed back to back. The show is a BBC One/Amazon Studios co-production.
Returning alongside Merchant (who both stars in and writes the series) and Walken are Rhianne Barreto (“Honour”), Gamba Cole (“Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle”), Darren Boyd (“Killing Eve”), Clare Perkins (“EastEnders”), Eleanor Tomlinson (“Poldark”), Jessica Gunning (“Back”), Charles Babalola (“Bancroft”), Nina Wadia (“Goodness Gracious Me”), Tom Hanson (“Brassic”) and Aiyana Goodfellow (“Small Axe”).
Julia Davis (“Sally4Ever”), Dolly Wells (“Dracula”), Ian McElhinney (“Game of Thrones”) and Claes Bang (“Dracula”) guest star.
Created by Stephen Merchant (“The Office”) and Elgin James (“Mayans M.C.”) the comedy thriller follows seven convicts completing community service in Bristol, U.K.
The second season, which has already wrapped and is due to air next year, follows on directly from season 1. Both seasons were filmed back to back. The show is a BBC One/Amazon Studios co-production.
Returning alongside Merchant (who both stars in and writes the series) and Walken are Rhianne Barreto (“Honour”), Gamba Cole (“Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle”), Darren Boyd (“Killing Eve”), Clare Perkins (“EastEnders”), Eleanor Tomlinson (“Poldark”), Jessica Gunning (“Back”), Charles Babalola (“Bancroft”), Nina Wadia (“Goodness Gracious Me”), Tom Hanson (“Brassic”) and Aiyana Goodfellow (“Small Axe”).
Julia Davis (“Sally4Ever”), Dolly Wells (“Dracula”), Ian McElhinney (“Game of Thrones”) and Claes Bang (“Dracula”) guest star.
- 11/29/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Outlaws producer Big Talk has secured a two-hour UKTV feature about aliens invading the Earth from Ghosts’ Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond.
Airing next year on Dave, We Are Not Alone is set six weeks after an alien invasion and explores the culture clash between humankind and its new alien masters, who are trying to make sense of a planet so confusing that its inhabitants can’t even agree which side of the road to drive on.
Writers Rickard and Willbond, who play Robin and The Captain respectively in BBC1 hit comedy Ghosts and are also part of the writing team on the BBC and CBS version, said they had “never attempted anything so ambitious or ridiculous.”
Big Talk CEO Kenton Allen said: “Shining a light on how stupid humans are, through the prism of some stupid Aliens, with the amazing crew we have assembled, will be stupidly good fun.
Airing next year on Dave, We Are Not Alone is set six weeks after an alien invasion and explores the culture clash between humankind and its new alien masters, who are trying to make sense of a planet so confusing that its inhabitants can’t even agree which side of the road to drive on.
Writers Rickard and Willbond, who play Robin and The Captain respectively in BBC1 hit comedy Ghosts and are also part of the writing team on the BBC and CBS version, said they had “never attempted anything so ambitious or ridiculous.”
Big Talk CEO Kenton Allen said: “Shining a light on how stupid humans are, through the prism of some stupid Aliens, with the amazing crew we have assembled, will be stupidly good fun.
- 11/19/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Welcome to this weeks episode of Aew: Dark, I’m editor Phil and let’s not mess around with extraneous introductory waffle and let’s just jump straight into this!
Match #1: Lance Archer def. Zicky Dice
My Thoughts: Zicky Dice, formerly of Nwa (and a one-time Nwa TV Champion), makes he Aew debut getting completely destroyed by Lance Archer. Like Totally destroyed… Throw in the ring, around the ring, and in the air. Dice never stood a chance.
My Score: 1 out of 5 Match #2: Abadon def. Willow Nightingale
My Thoughts: Between Ricky Starks’ reaction on commentary and Willow’s reaction in ring, this match made Abadon look even more freakish that usual. Willow Nightingale has been doing great work on Aew (and Roh) and it will be interesting to see her career trajectory in a few years time. Meanwhile Abadon… well sh was Abadon – badass and brutal as usual!
Match #1: Lance Archer def. Zicky Dice
My Thoughts: Zicky Dice, formerly of Nwa (and a one-time Nwa TV Champion), makes he Aew debut getting completely destroyed by Lance Archer. Like Totally destroyed… Throw in the ring, around the ring, and in the air. Dice never stood a chance.
My Score: 1 out of 5 Match #2: Abadon def. Willow Nightingale
My Thoughts: Between Ricky Starks’ reaction on commentary and Willow’s reaction in ring, this match made Abadon look even more freakish that usual. Willow Nightingale has been doing great work on Aew (and Roh) and it will be interesting to see her career trajectory in a few years time. Meanwhile Abadon… well sh was Abadon – badass and brutal as usual!
- 6/10/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: IMDb TV has picked up Timewasters, the British comedy about a jazz band who time travel via a urine-soaked elevator in a dilapidated block of flats.
Amazon’s free streaming service will carry the first two seasons of the now-canceled ITV2 show, which is produced by ITV Studios-backed Big Talk Productions. Endeavor Content distributes the BAFTA-nominated series.
Starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Cockroaches) as Nick, Kadiff Kirwan (Chewing Gum) as Jason, Adelayo Adedayo (Skins) as Lauren, and Samson Kayo (Truth Seekers) as Horace, the first season sees the band transported back to 1920s high-society London.
In the second season, the time-traveling quartet are transported to London in the 1950s. Met with strange stares and genuine curiosity in both eras, the group navigates the clash of cultures and social conventions all while exploring worlds that are, at once, both incredibly familiar and painfully foreign.
Timewasters was created and written by...
Amazon’s free streaming service will carry the first two seasons of the now-canceled ITV2 show, which is produced by ITV Studios-backed Big Talk Productions. Endeavor Content distributes the BAFTA-nominated series.
Starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Cockroaches) as Nick, Kadiff Kirwan (Chewing Gum) as Jason, Adelayo Adedayo (Skins) as Lauren, and Samson Kayo (Truth Seekers) as Horace, the first season sees the band transported back to 1920s high-society London.
In the second season, the time-traveling quartet are transported to London in the 1950s. Met with strange stares and genuine curiosity in both eras, the group navigates the clash of cultures and social conventions all while exploring worlds that are, at once, both incredibly familiar and painfully foreign.
Timewasters was created and written by...
- 5/24/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Award-winning author Paul McAuley’s acclaimed science fiction novel “Austral” is set for an epic series adaptation from Circle of Confusion Television Studios and ITV Studios’ Big Talk Productions.
“Austral” is an expansive drama set in Antarctica during the year 2098, decades after the melting glaciers have given way to a new frontier of resource-rich land, and a generation of settlers from all around the dying world have converged there. But for Austral Ferrado, one of a number of “huskies,” or people who have been gene-edited to better withstand the still-unforgiving climate of the far south, this new Antarctica is no paradise. Trapped in a society that has imprisoned her and treated her kind more as animals than humans, Austral will stop at nothing to gain her freedom.
Elise McCredie — Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts screenplay award winner for Cate Blanchett-produced series “Stateless” — will adapt the novel, while Erik Skjoldbjaerg (“Occupied”) will direct.
“Austral” is an expansive drama set in Antarctica during the year 2098, decades after the melting glaciers have given way to a new frontier of resource-rich land, and a generation of settlers from all around the dying world have converged there. But for Austral Ferrado, one of a number of “huskies,” or people who have been gene-edited to better withstand the still-unforgiving climate of the far south, this new Antarctica is no paradise. Trapped in a society that has imprisoned her and treated her kind more as animals than humans, Austral will stop at nothing to gain her freedom.
Elise McCredie — Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts screenplay award winner for Cate Blanchett-produced series “Stateless” — will adapt the novel, while Erik Skjoldbjaerg (“Occupied”) will direct.
- 3/18/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: A Black Lady Sketch Show head writer Lauren Ashley Smith is set to write and exec produce the U.S. remake of British comedy Timewasters, which is in the works at ABC.
The single-camera comedy comes from CBS Studios. ABC is developing the remake of ITV2’s time-traveling jazz comedy as part of its second-cycle development process.
Timewasters was created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor, who also starred in it, and ran for two seasons on ITV2 in the UK. It was nominated for a BAFTA in 2018 for Best Scripted Comedy alongside Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum and Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe as well as the winner BBC mockumentary This Country, which is being remade at Fox.
The U.S. adaptation will revolve around four Black twentysomething New Yorkers who accidentally end up in the year 1926, despite being deeply unenthusiastic about and deeply unequipped for time travel.
The single-camera comedy comes from CBS Studios. ABC is developing the remake of ITV2’s time-traveling jazz comedy as part of its second-cycle development process.
Timewasters was created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor, who also starred in it, and ran for two seasons on ITV2 in the UK. It was nominated for a BAFTA in 2018 for Best Scripted Comedy alongside Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum and Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe as well as the winner BBC mockumentary This Country, which is being remade at Fox.
The U.S. adaptation will revolve around four Black twentysomething New Yorkers who accidentally end up in the year 1926, despite being deeply unenthusiastic about and deeply unequipped for time travel.
- 1/25/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In his first lead role on British television, Oscar winner Christopher Walken has been tapped to star in The Offenders (working title), a six-part series for BBC and Amazon Prime Video, from The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant and Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James. He is one of seven leads in the project, starring alongside Merchant, Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Darren Boyd, Clare Perkins (EastEnders) and Eleanor Tomlinson.
The series had just started filming in March when production was shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. Filming recently resumed in Bristol, UK, with Walken making his debut.
Described as crime thriller-meets-state-of-the-nation commentary, The Offenders hails from Mum producer Big Talk, part of ITV Studios, and Merchant’s Four Eyes. It is the latest co-production between Amazon Studios and the BBC, which have...
The series had just started filming in March when production was shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. Filming recently resumed in Bristol, UK, with Walken making his debut.
Described as crime thriller-meets-state-of-the-nation commentary, The Offenders hails from Mum producer Big Talk, part of ITV Studios, and Merchant’s Four Eyes. It is the latest co-production between Amazon Studios and the BBC, which have...
- 12/14/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
They are developing three projects for Netflix.
Former Big Talk Productions duo Edgar Wright and Nira Park have teamed up with writer-director Joe Cornish and producer Rachael Prior to launch a London and Los Angeles-based film and TV outfit called Complete Fiction.
The company’s debut development slate includes three new series for Netflix. Cornish is directing Lockwood & Co, a supernatural detective series based on Jonathan Stroud’s novel series of the same name, while the company has also optioned Tade Thompson’s literary sci-fi horror trilogy The Murders Of Molly Southbourne and S.A. Chakraborty’s historical fantasy series...
Former Big Talk Productions duo Edgar Wright and Nira Park have teamed up with writer-director Joe Cornish and producer Rachael Prior to launch a London and Los Angeles-based film and TV outfit called Complete Fiction.
The company’s debut development slate includes three new series for Netflix. Cornish is directing Lockwood & Co, a supernatural detective series based on Jonathan Stroud’s novel series of the same name, while the company has also optioned Tade Thompson’s literary sci-fi horror trilogy The Murders Of Molly Southbourne and S.A. Chakraborty’s historical fantasy series...
- 5/19/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Former Mom star Sadie Calvano and Alanna Ubach (Bombshell) are set as series regulars opposite Meaghan Rath and Jack Cutmore-Scott in CBS’ ensemble comedy pilot Jury Duty, from 9Jkl co-creator Dana Klein, writer Stephanie Darrow, UK producer Big Talk Productions and CBS Television Studios.
In the hybrid Jury Duty, written by Klein and Darrow based on a British format and directed by Christine Gernon, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.
Calvano will play Linzee. Gorgeous and a bit naïve, Linzee loves animals and is a vegetarian because “bunnies!” She’s also very optimistic, easily excited, and too sweet to realize she’s the most beautiful girl in the world.
Ubach is Judge Wallace. Judge Wallace wanted to be an actress and now the courtroom is her stage, where she’s wildly unprofessional and...
In the hybrid Jury Duty, written by Klein and Darrow based on a British format and directed by Christine Gernon, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.
Calvano will play Linzee. Gorgeous and a bit naïve, Linzee loves animals and is a vegetarian because “bunnies!” She’s also very optimistic, easily excited, and too sweet to realize she’s the most beautiful girl in the world.
Ubach is Judge Wallace. Judge Wallace wanted to be an actress and now the courtroom is her stage, where she’s wildly unprofessional and...
- 3/10/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Meaghan Rath has been cast in the CBS comedy pilot “Jury Duty.”
She joins previously announced cast member Jack Cutmore-Scott, with whom she previously worked on the Fox comedy series “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life.” The two began dating after working together on that show and are set to be married in May.
“Jury Duty” follows a group of jurors who are all sequestered together until they can agree on a verdict, though they can’t even agree on lunch. Rath will star as Jen, described as sarcastic, adorably neurotic, and a little controlling. Jen is a successful book editor who is high maintenance, but thinks she’s low maintenance. She feels like the last single girl in the world because all of her friends are married with kids.
Rath recently wrapped up a three-season run on fellow CBS series “Hawii Five-o.” In addition to “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life,...
She joins previously announced cast member Jack Cutmore-Scott, with whom she previously worked on the Fox comedy series “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life.” The two began dating after working together on that show and are set to be married in May.
“Jury Duty” follows a group of jurors who are all sequestered together until they can agree on a verdict, though they can’t even agree on lunch. Rath will star as Jen, described as sarcastic, adorably neurotic, and a little controlling. Jen is a successful book editor who is high maintenance, but thinks she’s low maintenance. She feels like the last single girl in the world because all of her friends are married with kids.
Rath recently wrapped up a three-season run on fellow CBS series “Hawii Five-o.” In addition to “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life,...
- 3/10/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
As Hawaii Five-0 is coming to an end, series’ co-star Meaghan Rath is staying at CBS as the lead of the network’s ensemble comedy pilot Jury Duty. from 9Jkl co-creator Dana Klein, writer Stephanie Darrow, UK producer Big Talk Productions and CBS Television Studios. She joins Jack Cutmore-Scott who was recently cast as the project’s male lead.
In the hybrid Jury Duty, written by Klein and Darrow based on a British format and directed by Christine Gernon, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.
Rath plays Jen. Sarcastic, adorably neurotic and a little controlling, Jen is a successful book editor who is high maintenance, but thinks she’s low maintenance. She feels like the last single girl in the world because all of her friends are married with kids.
Klein and Darrow executive...
In the hybrid Jury Duty, written by Klein and Darrow based on a British format and directed by Christine Gernon, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.
Rath plays Jen. Sarcastic, adorably neurotic and a little controlling, Jen is a successful book editor who is high maintenance, but thinks she’s low maintenance. She feels like the last single girl in the world because all of her friends are married with kids.
Klein and Darrow executive...
- 3/10/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Deception star Jack Cutmore-Scott will lead the ensemble cast of Jury Duty (fka We the Jury), CBS’ hybrid half-hour comedy pilot from 9Jkl co-creator Dana Klein, writer Stephanie Darrow, UK producer Big Talk Productions and CBS Television Studios.
Written by Klein and Darrow based on a British format, in Jury Duty, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.
Cutmore-Scott will play John ‘Hutty’ Huttman, a charismatic natural leader and winner in every way, who isn’t happy about being made an alternate juror, so he’s going to make it fun for himself.
Jury Duty was based on the British format We the Jury, created by stand-up comedian James Acaster and originally piloted on BBC Two. Klein and Darrow executive produce the CBS pilot with Acaster, and Kenton Allen and Matthew Justice for Big Talk.
Written by Klein and Darrow based on a British format, in Jury Duty, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.
Cutmore-Scott will play John ‘Hutty’ Huttman, a charismatic natural leader and winner in every way, who isn’t happy about being made an alternate juror, so he’s going to make it fun for himself.
Jury Duty was based on the British format We the Jury, created by stand-up comedian James Acaster and originally piloted on BBC Two. Klein and Darrow executive produce the CBS pilot with Acaster, and Kenton Allen and Matthew Justice for Big Talk.
- 2/21/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate-backed comedy The Goes Wrong Show has been renewed by the BBC for a second season.
The series, produced by Mum producer Big Talk Productions and Mischief Screen, is based on the latter’s eponymous play from the team behind Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.
The first season followed the Cornley Drama Society undertaking another overly ambitious endeavour, held back by prolific over-actor Robert Grove, the screen-hogging Sandra Wilkinson and the artistically mistrusted Dennis Tyde. The half-hour episodes are described as “theatrical catastrophe”.
The Goes Wrong Show is written by and stars the original founding Mischief Theatre members including Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields alongside Nancy Zamit, Charlie Russell, Bryony Corrigan, Greg Tannahill, Dave Hearn and Chris Leask. It is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
Lionsgate sells internationally in a deal similar to its arrangement for Sharon Horgan-penned Motherland.
The series, produced by Mum producer Big Talk Productions and Mischief Screen, is based on the latter’s eponymous play from the team behind Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.
The first season followed the Cornley Drama Society undertaking another overly ambitious endeavour, held back by prolific over-actor Robert Grove, the screen-hogging Sandra Wilkinson and the artistically mistrusted Dennis Tyde. The half-hour episodes are described as “theatrical catastrophe”.
The Goes Wrong Show is written by and stars the original founding Mischief Theatre members including Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields alongside Nancy Zamit, Charlie Russell, Bryony Corrigan, Greg Tannahill, Dave Hearn and Chris Leask. It is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
Lionsgate sells internationally in a deal similar to its arrangement for Sharon Horgan-penned Motherland.
- 2/14/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS has given a pilot order to We The Jury, a half-hour comedy from 9Jkl co-creator Dana Klein, writer Stephanie Darrow, UK producer Big Talk Productions and CBS Television Studios.
The comedy, originally sold and developed as single-camera, has been picked up to pilot as hybrid. The move is similar to last year’s format-change for comedy The Unicorn, which was developed by CBS/CBS Studios as a single-camera but picked up to pilot as a multi-camera. The pilot was converted back to single-camera before it was shot.
Written by Klein and Darrow, in We The Jury, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.
We the Jury was based on a British format of the same name, created by stand-up comedian James Acaster. It was piloted on BBC Two in the UK in 2016 as part...
The comedy, originally sold and developed as single-camera, has been picked up to pilot as hybrid. The move is similar to last year’s format-change for comedy The Unicorn, which was developed by CBS/CBS Studios as a single-camera but picked up to pilot as a multi-camera. The pilot was converted back to single-camera before it was shot.
Written by Klein and Darrow, in We The Jury, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.
We the Jury was based on a British format of the same name, created by stand-up comedian James Acaster. It was piloted on BBC Two in the UK in 2016 as part...
- 1/24/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS is developing a project that takes a comedic look at the age-old “12 Angry Men” dilemma of how does a jury come to a unanimous verdict?
The network has issued a pilot order for “We The Jury,” a hybrid series from “9Jkl” co-creator Dana Klein and Stephanie Darrow. The project hails from CBS Television Studios.
Here’s the short and sweet logline for the project: “A group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.”
“We The Jury” also has some involvement from across the pond, with Big Talk Productions CEO Kenton Allen and managing director Matthew Justice on board as executive producers. The final Ep listed on the project is James Acaster, a rising star on the British comedy scene whose “Repertoire” series of stand-up specials graced Netflix in 2018.
Klein, a “Friends” alumna, also created “Friends With Better Lives” which,...
The network has issued a pilot order for “We The Jury,” a hybrid series from “9Jkl” co-creator Dana Klein and Stephanie Darrow. The project hails from CBS Television Studios.
Here’s the short and sweet logline for the project: “A group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict….and they can’t even agree on lunch.”
“We The Jury” also has some involvement from across the pond, with Big Talk Productions CEO Kenton Allen and managing director Matthew Justice on board as executive producers. The final Ep listed on the project is James Acaster, a rising star on the British comedy scene whose “Repertoire” series of stand-up specials graced Netflix in 2018.
Klein, a “Friends” alumna, also created “Friends With Better Lives” which,...
- 1/24/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Amazon has partnered with the BBC on a British comedy drama created by The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant and Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James.
The Svod service and the British public broadcaster have ordered crime thriller-meets-state-of-the-nation commentary The Offenders (w/t) from Mum producer Big Talk and Merchant’s Four Eyes. It is the latest co-production between Amazon Studios and the BBC, which have previously partnered on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s award-winning Fleabag and Steve McQueen’s drama Small Axe.
The six-part series, which consists of hour-long episodes, follows seven strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. Although they seem like archetypes, they should not be pigeon-holed. As their unlikely new friendships intersect with their complicated private lives, the group must unite to protect one of their own from Bristol’s most dangerous criminal gang.
Merchant, who also created and...
The Svod service and the British public broadcaster have ordered crime thriller-meets-state-of-the-nation commentary The Offenders (w/t) from Mum producer Big Talk and Merchant’s Four Eyes. It is the latest co-production between Amazon Studios and the BBC, which have previously partnered on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s award-winning Fleabag and Steve McQueen’s drama Small Axe.
The six-part series, which consists of hour-long episodes, follows seven strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. Although they seem like archetypes, they should not be pigeon-holed. As their unlikely new friendships intersect with their complicated private lives, the group must unite to protect one of their own from Bristol’s most dangerous criminal gang.
Merchant, who also created and...
- 1/6/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The event was attended by 25 Nfts Producing alumni.
Industry guests from Channel 4, BBC Films, Universal Pictures International, Netflix and the Walt Disney Company were among those who raised £300,000 at the annual fundraising gala of the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts) held at London’s Old Billingsgate venue on June 25.
This year’s event was themed ’Great British Producers’, and 25 alumni from the Nfts Producing Ma were in attendance. They included Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, Bafta-nominated producer and recently-appointed Bifa board member; Anna Higgs head of industry: entertainment at Facebook; and Len Rowles, head of development at Protagonist Pictures.
Industry guests from Channel 4, BBC Films, Universal Pictures International, Netflix and the Walt Disney Company were among those who raised £300,000 at the annual fundraising gala of the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts) held at London’s Old Billingsgate venue on June 25.
This year’s event was themed ’Great British Producers’, and 25 alumni from the Nfts Producing Ma were in attendance. They included Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, Bafta-nominated producer and recently-appointed Bifa board member; Anna Higgs head of industry: entertainment at Facebook; and Len Rowles, head of development at Protagonist Pictures.
- 6/26/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Lionsgate has partnered with Big Talk Productions and Mischief Screen to bring a comedy stage play to BBC One.
The British public broadcaster has commissioned The Goes Wrong Show, which is based on Mischief Theatre’s eponymous play from the team behind Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which were previously adapted for television.
The six-part series follows the Cornley Drama Society undertaking another overly ambitious endeavour, held back by prolific over-actor Robert Grove, the screen-hogging Sandra Wilkinson and the artistically mistrusted Dennis Tyde. The half-hour episodes are described as “theatrical catastrophe”.
The Goes Wrong Show will be written by and star the original founding Mischief Theatre members including Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields alongside Nancy Zamit, Charlie Russell, Bryony Corrigan, Greg Tannahill, Dave Hearn and Chris Leask. It will be filmed in front of a live studio audience.
The Goes Wrong Show is...
The British public broadcaster has commissioned The Goes Wrong Show, which is based on Mischief Theatre’s eponymous play from the team behind Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which were previously adapted for television.
The six-part series follows the Cornley Drama Society undertaking another overly ambitious endeavour, held back by prolific over-actor Robert Grove, the screen-hogging Sandra Wilkinson and the artistically mistrusted Dennis Tyde. The half-hour episodes are described as “theatrical catastrophe”.
The Goes Wrong Show will be written by and star the original founding Mischief Theatre members including Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields alongside Nancy Zamit, Charlie Russell, Bryony Corrigan, Greg Tannahill, Dave Hearn and Chris Leask. It will be filmed in front of a live studio audience.
The Goes Wrong Show is...
- 2/22/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
9Jkl co-creator/executive producer Dana Klein has reunited with series’ executive producers, Aaron Kaplan, Wendi Trilling and Dana Honor, and studio, CBS TV Studios, for another multi-generational, multi-camera comedy, which has landed at CBS with a put pilot commitment.
Written by Klein, The Squeeze centers on a married couple that struggles to take care of both dependent children and dependent parents.
Klein executive produces with Kapital Entertainment’s Kaplan and Honor and TrillTV’s Trilling as well as Big Talk’s Kenton Allen and Matthew Justice. Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios produce.
This is the latest collaboration between Klein and Kaplan. The four previous comedy projects that the two teamed on, Daddy’s Girls, Friends with Better Lives, The Perfect Stanleys and 9Jkl, all went to pilot and two, Friends with Better Lives and 9Jk, were picked up to series. Friends alumna Klein is repped by UTA and attorney Jamie Mandelbaum.
Written by Klein, The Squeeze centers on a married couple that struggles to take care of both dependent children and dependent parents.
Klein executive produces with Kapital Entertainment’s Kaplan and Honor and TrillTV’s Trilling as well as Big Talk’s Kenton Allen and Matthew Justice. Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios produce.
This is the latest collaboration between Klein and Kaplan. The four previous comedy projects that the two teamed on, Daddy’s Girls, Friends with Better Lives, The Perfect Stanleys and 9Jkl, all went to pilot and two, Friends with Better Lives and 9Jk, were picked up to series. Friends alumna Klein is repped by UTA and attorney Jamie Mandelbaum.
- 10/4/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Big Talk Productions Founder & ‘Baby Driver’ Producer Nira Park To Exit ITV-Owned Film & TV Producer
Nira Park, producer of Baby Driver and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Cornetto trilogy, is to leave Big Talk Productions, the film and TV firm she founded.
Park, who has had a long-standing producer relationship with Edgar Wright and also produced Sacha Baron Cohen’s Grimsby, founded the company in 1995.
She produced films including Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End as well as Joe Cornish’s Attack The Block and is currently producing The Kid Who Would Be King starring Rebecca Ferguson and Patrick Stewart, due for release in early 2019 for 20th Century Fox.
In TV, she produced British sitcom Spaced as well as Black Books, Him & Her and Free Agents, which was adapted by NBC.
Park sold the business to ITV Studios in 2013 and is planning to “pursue other opportunities.”
Park said, “When I set up Big Talk, the dream was to create...
Park, who has had a long-standing producer relationship with Edgar Wright and also produced Sacha Baron Cohen’s Grimsby, founded the company in 1995.
She produced films including Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End as well as Joe Cornish’s Attack The Block and is currently producing The Kid Who Would Be King starring Rebecca Ferguson and Patrick Stewart, due for release in early 2019 for 20th Century Fox.
In TV, she produced British sitcom Spaced as well as Black Books, Him & Her and Free Agents, which was adapted by NBC.
Park sold the business to ITV Studios in 2013 and is planning to “pursue other opportunities.”
Park said, “When I set up Big Talk, the dream was to create...
- 8/1/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS has put in development Sunday Night Dinner, a single-camera comedy based on the British series Friday Night Dinner. The U.S. adaptation — about a couple with two grown boys who gather every week for a family dinner — will be written by The King of Queens co-creator Michael Weithorn and former Modern Family executive producer Dan O'Shannon. The two executive produce with the creator of the original series, Robert Popper, Kenton Allen and Matthew Justice. CBS TV Studios…...
- 8/31/2016
- Deadline TV
The distributor has pounced following the April 19 world premiere of the rom-com starring Lake Bell and Simon Pegg.
Ben Palmer directed from a screenplay by Tess Morris about a woman who is mistaken for a blind date and goes along with it. Rory Kinnear and Olivia Williams round out the key cast.
StudioCanal handles world sales and co-produced alongside Big Talk Pictures’ Nira Park, James Biddle and Rachael Prior.
Matthew Justice, Pegg, Dan Cheesbrough, Jenny Borgars, Danny Perkins, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer are executive producers. StudioCanal co-financed with BBC Films.
Saban launched a year ago and released The Homesman last November. The maiden slate includes How To Make Love Like An Englishman starring Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba; The Forger starring John Travolta; American Heist with Hayden Christensen, Adrien Brody and Jordana Brewster; Tracers starring Taylor Lautner; and The Trust with Nicolas Cage.
Ben Palmer directed from a screenplay by Tess Morris about a woman who is mistaken for a blind date and goes along with it. Rory Kinnear and Olivia Williams round out the key cast.
StudioCanal handles world sales and co-produced alongside Big Talk Pictures’ Nira Park, James Biddle and Rachael Prior.
Matthew Justice, Pegg, Dan Cheesbrough, Jenny Borgars, Danny Perkins, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer are executive producers. StudioCanal co-financed with BBC Films.
Saban launched a year ago and released The Homesman last November. The maiden slate includes How To Make Love Like An Englishman starring Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba; The Forger starring John Travolta; American Heist with Hayden Christensen, Adrien Brody and Jordana Brewster; Tracers starring Taylor Lautner; and The Trust with Nicolas Cage.
- 4/21/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
StudioCanal UK CEO joins the summit line-up alongside Google content exec Lisa Rousseauand writer-director Jane Linfoot.
Danny Perkins, the chief executive of StudioCanal UK, is to deliver a keynote speech at the upcoming Screen Film Summit, which takes place at the BFI on Monday (Dec 1).
Perkins has overseen the release of more than 300 titles theatrically and 1,000 titles in home entertainment, including Pan’s Labyrinth, The Hurt Locker and upcoming releases The Imitation Game and Paddington.
The exec has long been a strong advocate for homegrown UK talent and during his tenure at StudioCanal, the company has supported independent British features such as Yann Demange’s ‘71, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block and forthcoming Aardman production Shaun the Sheep.
His afternoon speech will be just ahead of a session that will debate ‘What’s next for UK film’, with panellists including Big Talk MD Matthew Justice, Lionsgate CEO Zygi Kamasa, BBC Films head Christine Langan, Independent film sales...
Danny Perkins, the chief executive of StudioCanal UK, is to deliver a keynote speech at the upcoming Screen Film Summit, which takes place at the BFI on Monday (Dec 1).
Perkins has overseen the release of more than 300 titles theatrically and 1,000 titles in home entertainment, including Pan’s Labyrinth, The Hurt Locker and upcoming releases The Imitation Game and Paddington.
The exec has long been a strong advocate for homegrown UK talent and during his tenure at StudioCanal, the company has supported independent British features such as Yann Demange’s ‘71, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block and forthcoming Aardman production Shaun the Sheep.
His afternoon speech will be just ahead of a session that will debate ‘What’s next for UK film’, with panellists including Big Talk MD Matthew Justice, Lionsgate CEO Zygi Kamasa, BBC Films head Christine Langan, Independent film sales...
- 11/26/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
New additions to the line-up also include BBC Films head Christine Langan, Hammer’s president Simon Oakes and Blueprint Pictures’ Graham Broadbent.
Lionsgate’s CEO Zygi Kamasa, Big Talk Productions’ MD Matthew Justice and BBC Films head Christine Langan are to join the UK Film Industry Wishlist panel at the upcoming Screen Film Summit, which takes place at the BFI on December 1.
Together with Framestore’s William Sargent, Independent’s Andrew Orr and Vue’s Tim Richads they will be discuss the challenges facing their particular sectors and what they would like to see for the future of the industry.
Meanwhile, Hammer president/CEO Simon Oakes and Blueprint Pictures’s Graham Broadbent will be discussing how best to maximise the potential of British film abroad.
Joining them on the panel will be West End Films’ head of sales Fabien Westerhoff, former agent and founder of UK production company 42 Josh Varney and the BFI’s Isabel Davis.
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Lionsgate’s CEO Zygi Kamasa, Big Talk Productions’ MD Matthew Justice and BBC Films head Christine Langan are to join the UK Film Industry Wishlist panel at the upcoming Screen Film Summit, which takes place at the BFI on December 1.
Together with Framestore’s William Sargent, Independent’s Andrew Orr and Vue’s Tim Richads they will be discuss the challenges facing their particular sectors and what they would like to see for the future of the industry.
Meanwhile, Hammer president/CEO Simon Oakes and Blueprint Pictures’s Graham Broadbent will be discussing how best to maximise the potential of British film abroad.
Joining them on the panel will be West End Films’ head of sales Fabien Westerhoff, former agent and founder of UK production company 42 Josh Varney and the BFI’s Isabel Davis.
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- 11/7/2014
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
The CW will remake ITV's 2012 mini-series The Town.
Sherlock's Andrew Scott starred alongside Martin Clunes in the three-part drama, which followed Scott's Mark Nicholas as he returned to his hometown to investigate the apparent suicide of his parents.
Pretty Little Liars co-showrunner Oliver Goldstick will write and executive produce the CW's remake, a co-production from Russian Hill and Big Talk Productions for Warner Bros Television.
Creator Mike Bartlett, who subsequently received a BAFTA nomination for Breakthrough Talent for the crime drama, will also serve as an executive producer.
He will be joined by fellow executive producers Matthew Justice, Kenton Allen and Simon Curtis.
The Town attracted an average audience of 3 million (13.2%) over its three-episode run in December 2012.
Sherlock's Andrew Scott starred alongside Martin Clunes in the three-part drama, which followed Scott's Mark Nicholas as he returned to his hometown to investigate the apparent suicide of his parents.
Pretty Little Liars co-showrunner Oliver Goldstick will write and executive produce the CW's remake, a co-production from Russian Hill and Big Talk Productions for Warner Bros Television.
Creator Mike Bartlett, who subsequently received a BAFTA nomination for Breakthrough Talent for the crime drama, will also serve as an executive producer.
He will be joined by fellow executive producers Matthew Justice, Kenton Allen and Simon Curtis.
The Town attracted an average audience of 3 million (13.2%) over its three-episode run in December 2012.
- 10/14/2014
- Digital Spy
The CW is rebooting ITV series “The Town” alongside “Pretty Little Liars” co-showrunner Oliver Goldstick (pictured above). The show, based on the UK TV version created by Mike Bartlett, follows a young man who begins investigating his parents’ suicide and suspects murder, rendering the entire town culpable. Bartlett was nominated for a 2013 BAFTA TV Award. The original three-episode miniseries starred Andrew Scott. Also read: Ratings: ‘Jane the Virgin,’ ‘Originals’ Hand CW Most-Watched Monday in Almost 3 Years Goldstick will write and executive produce the CW version. Other executive producers include Bartlett, Matthew Justice, Kenton Allen and Simon Curtis. The show is a Russian Hill and.
- 10/14/2014
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
The CW is looking for its own murder mystery. As Fox has found mixed success with Broadchurch adaptation Gracepoint, The CW is looking to reboot ITV's The Town, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Pretty Little Liars co-showrunner Oliver Goldstick will pen the drama about a young man who begins investigating his parents' suicide. When he suspects murder, the entire town is culpable. See more Faces of Fall 2014 In addition to writing, Goldstick will executive produce The Town alongside original series writer-creator Mike Bartlett. As they did with the 2012 original, Big Talk Productions managing director Matthew Justice, co-
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- 10/14/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Deals include multi-territory accord by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions.
StudioCanal has been notching up sales on upcoming, London-set rom-com Man Up, starring Simon Pegg and Lake Bell.
The film, directed by Ben Palmer and produced by London-based Big Talk Pictures, was written by Tess Morris.
It revolves around a chaotic first date between a recent divorcee (Pegg) and a disillusioned singleton (Bell) involving lost divorce papers, a stalker and some competitive indoor sport.
StudioCanal head of sales Anna Marsh said: “Tess is a such a talented writer that the film already generated a lot of interest at Berlin on the basis of the script alone - it’s a real page-turner - but sales really took off in Cannes on the back of the promo-reel. There’s a real chemistry between Simon and Lake on screen.”
The film has sold to much of the world including Benelux (eOne Benelux), Switzerland (Impuls Pictures), Portugal (Lusomundo), Israel (Forum...
StudioCanal has been notching up sales on upcoming, London-set rom-com Man Up, starring Simon Pegg and Lake Bell.
The film, directed by Ben Palmer and produced by London-based Big Talk Pictures, was written by Tess Morris.
It revolves around a chaotic first date between a recent divorcee (Pegg) and a disillusioned singleton (Bell) involving lost divorce papers, a stalker and some competitive indoor sport.
StudioCanal head of sales Anna Marsh said: “Tess is a such a talented writer that the film already generated a lot of interest at Berlin on the basis of the script alone - it’s a real page-turner - but sales really took off in Cannes on the back of the promo-reel. There’s a real chemistry between Simon and Lake on screen.”
The film has sold to much of the world including Benelux (eOne Benelux), Switzerland (Impuls Pictures), Portugal (Lusomundo), Israel (Forum...
- 5/29/2014
- ScreenDaily
Andrea Wong, Pete Czernin and Jonathan Ross have joined the BFI’s governing board.
They will attend their first BFI Board meeting on 29 April, 2014.
The board of governors, chaired by Greg Dyke and co-chaired by Libby Savill, comprises Josh Berger, Ashley Highfield, Tom Hooper, Matthew Justice, Peter Kosminsky, Pat Butler, Charles Cecil, Oona King, J Timothy Richards and Alison Cornwell.
Wong is president of International Production for Sony Pictures Television (Spt) and president of International for Sony Pictures Entertainment (Spe).
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel producer Czernin runs Blueprint Pictures with Graham Broadbent.
TV and radio personality Ross presents ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show and previously presented BBC One’s flagship film show.
They will attend their first BFI Board meeting on 29 April, 2014.
The board of governors, chaired by Greg Dyke and co-chaired by Libby Savill, comprises Josh Berger, Ashley Highfield, Tom Hooper, Matthew Justice, Peter Kosminsky, Pat Butler, Charles Cecil, Oona King, J Timothy Richards and Alison Cornwell.
Wong is president of International Production for Sony Pictures Television (Spt) and president of International for Sony Pictures Entertainment (Spe).
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel producer Czernin runs Blueprint Pictures with Graham Broadbent.
TV and radio personality Ross presents ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show and previously presented BBC One’s flagship film show.
- 3/12/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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