Acorn TV Scores ‘Midsomer Murders’ U.S. Premiere Rights From All3Media International (EXCLUSIVE)

Sony Pictures Television-owned Stellify Media has optioned the U.S. and UK rights to My Ranking, a genre-bending singing game show from The Masked Singer creator Won-Woo Park.

Reading & Leeds has spoken to NME about his confidence of acts from the US and overseas being able to play the festival this summer amidst concerns around coronavirus restrictions.A number of festivals across the UK and Europe have been announcing either mostly or entirely domestic line-ups to play it safe in case COVID travel restrictions prevent acts from travelling to the UK or require them to quarantine upon arrival. Many are hoping that the government’s “traffic light system” will create

Manori Ravindran International Editor“The Cry” producer Synchronicity Films has optioned the rights to Graeme Armstrong’s acclaimed debut novel “The Young Team,” with BAFTA-winning “The Last Czars” helmer Adrian McDowall on board to direct.Emerging British writer Ben Tagoe (“In The Long Run,” “Stan Lee’s Lucky Man”) is on board as screenwriter, while Armstrong — whose own personal experiences inform his novel — will serve as consultant on the project.Published by Picador Books in 2020, “The

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Jane Seymour has signed on to star in and co-executive produce a new Irish mystery thriller for Acorn TV, AMC Networks’ streamer that focuses on British content.“Harry Wild” is set to go into production next month in Dublin.

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress Jane Seymour is to star in and executive produce the latest original series for AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV, taking the title role in Irish mystery thriller Harry Wild.

Ian Blackford said “we’ll see you in court” as he claimed the Conservative Government’s legal move to override Holyrood legislation trampled on the rights of children. But Boris Johnson said it a was “complete nonsense” to say that a UK government’s decision to refer two bills passed by Holyrood unanimously to the Supreme Court were political attack.

Ann-Marie Corvin Made by “Marcella” producerBuccaneer Media as an original for AMC’s BritBox rival Acorn TV, “Whitstable Pearl” has all the ingredients of a travel-friendly crime series with a female lead in a picturesque English town.And while the six part, 45-minute series slots in neatly with the streamer’s other small town crime canon, including Cotswold’s based “Agatha Raisin” and “Queens of Mystery,” Buccaneer execs Tony Wood and Anna Burns were keen to give the seaside town of Whitstable

Manori Ravindran International EditorChannel 4 format “The Write Offs” is getting local versions in Australia and Denmark, marking the first international deals for the Banijay-sold format.Originally created by Shine TV for Channel 4, “The Write Offs” finds former “Great British Bake Off” host Sandi Toksvig helping a group of adults improve their literacy.

Acorn/Sundance Acquire ‘The Drowning’ AMC Networks streamers Acorn TV and Sundance Now have swooped for the U.S. and Canadian rights to four-part identity thriller The Drowning.

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Lil Nas X has scored his second UK Number One single with ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’, the Official Charts Company has confirmed.The track has gone straight to the top of the Official UK Singles Chart after it was released last week (March 26).‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ has been surrounded by controversy over the last week, partially due to the religious imagery used in the video.

Hipgnosis Songs Fund has moved onshore from Guernsey to the UK.  It means Hipgnosis will cease to be a Guernsey tax exempt vehicle and instead be 'treated as being resident in the UK for tax purposes'.

Tom Grennan lands the top trending song in the UK with Little Bit Of Love, which could become his first Top 10 on the Official Singles Chart this week. 

Naman Ramachandran Independent distributor All3Media International has secured sales rights to Roast Beef Productions’ feature-length Channel 4 documentary “Who Is Ghislaine Maxwell?”All3Media will manage global distribution rights, excluding U.K., to the 90-minute film, which will debut on U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 later this year.British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is incarcerated in a New York jail while facing charges of helping convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein groom young girls.

Lana Del Rey has scored the fastest-selling vinyl album of the century in the UK by a female artist and for international acts.The LA-based musician has achieved the feat with her new album ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’, which was released last week (March 19).The record sold 16,700 vinyl copies in the last seven days, according to the Official Charts Company.