Nice Zac Ntim story here on the strange decision by a Polish film festival to premiere 'Rust' as a tribute to Halyna Hutchins "I’m all for memorializing Halyna and her beautiful work but not by screening and thereby promoting the film that killed her" deadline.com/2024/10/alec-b…

Channel 4 Posts Record Deficit As Content Chief Ian Katz Snubs Bonus deadline.com/2024/10/channe…

Grierson Trust Set To Withdraw Asif Kapadia's Patronage After Backlash Over Oscar-Winning Director's Israel-Gaza Social Media Posts deadline.com/2024/10/griers…

Tim Davie has banned the word "talent" "You’re a presenter, I’m a leader of an organization, and we’re here to serve," he told Nick Robinson on Today this morn deadline.com/2024/10/bbc-ti…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+'s 'Rivals': The Inside Story Of How A Producer Overcame The "Snobbery" Of British TV To Bring Jilly Cooper To Screen deadline.com/2024/10/disney…

“I had meetings with the BBC and ITV years ago when I didn’t have the rights and when I said, ‘Would you go for something like Jilly Cooper?’ they would look at me like I’d farted,” he said. “There’s a snobbery about her" tinyurl.com/3uk729cb

C4 programs boss Ian Katz has qualified why 'The Gathering' was axed earlier today despite being "quietly a massive hit" for the channel deadline.com/2024/10/ian-ka…

NEW Ofcom has fined GB News £100,000 over the Rishi Sunak live show that it says is a serious breach of impartiality GB News is challenging at High Court level and says direct attack on free speech Unprecedented for Ofcom to fine a UK news network deadline.com/2024/10/ofcom-…

EXC The next 'Baby Reindeer'?... Netflix is developing a limited series version of 'Weather Girl', the Edinburgh play from the producer of 'Baby Reindeer' & 'Fleabag' about a Californian weather woman reckoning with the end of the world deadline.com/2024/10/netfli…

NEW BBC News boss Jonathan Munro has just revealed that the World Service's govt funding will rise from £104M this year to £137M next. This will comprise about a third of overall funding The settlement only lasts for a year

The ‘Suits’ Effect: Why Older British Network Shows Are Doing The Business For Netflix UK deadline.com/2024/11/netfli…

Former 'Grey's Anatomy' Showrunners Teaming On ITV Period Drama Reimagining Life Of Elizabeth I deadline.com/2024/12/greys-…

EXC Jake Kanter and I have written this morn about Disney's audacious bid to hire Charlotte Moore, the most powerful person in British TV commissioning deadline.com/2024/12/disney…

'The Traitors' UK Smashes Ratings Record For Opening Episode deadline.com/2025/01/the-tr…

EXC The BBC and Ofcom were forced to amend the regulator’s record of how many Scottish people worked on Season 1 of The Traitors Will fan the flames of debate kickstarted last week around use of local talent on the hit show and beyond deadline.com/2025/01/the-tr…

EXCLUSIVE Good timing on this one as ITV unveils a long-in-the-works phone hacking drama series starring David Tennant as top journo Nick Davies & Toby Jones as Alan Rusbridger Comes just a week after Rupert Murdoch's apology/settlement with Harry deadline.com/2025/01/the-ha…

EXC with Jake Kanter The woman hired to clean up the UK TV industry's endemic bullying problem has herself been the subject of multiple misconduct complaints Not a great start for the fledgling Action for Freelancers group deadline.com/2025/02/sarah-…

EXC UK actors union Equity has threatened to go to the “courts if necessary” if actors' rights continue to be breached in the training of AI models Letter sent to heads of BBC, ITV, Disney, Pact & others deadline.com/2025/02/equity…

Interviewing Dave Lamb AKA voice of 'Come Dine With Me' = career highlight He had plenty of grace deadline.com/2025/02/come-d…

What a day, the head of BBC content is off Here is who could replace her deadline.com/2025/02/bbc-co…