EXCLUSIVE: New Line has picked up the rights to Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestselling novel In Five Years for HBO Max and set No Good Deed scribe Aimee Lagos to adapt. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce.
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Discovery Italy To Adapt BBC Studios Formats ‘The Great British Sewing Bee’ And This Is MY House’
Discovery in Italy has commissioned local-language versions of The Great British Sewing Bee and This is MY House after striking deals with distributor BBC Studios. Reality competition show The Great British Sewing Bee, originally from Love Productions, will be known as Tailor Made – Chi Ha La Stoffa?, with local producer Blu Yazmine producing ahead of a June debut on streamer Discovery+. A linear debut will follow on Real Time. This is MY House, in which celebrities guess whose home they are seeing, was created by Richard Bacon and Nick Weidenfeld and made by producer Expectation for BBC1, will be renamed Questa è Casa Mia and aired on Real Time next month.
Irvine Welsh’s ITVX Drama ‘Crime’ Sells Globally
A host of broadcasters have bought Britbox/ITVX’s Irvine Welsh-created police drama Crime. CBC (Canada), RTE (Ireland), VRT (Belgium), POLAR+ and CANAL+ Group (France) and Magenta TV (Germany) are among the buyers, with US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand rights going to Britbox, which is operated separately to the UK streamer of the same name. Distributor Cineflix Rights has also acquired rights to season two of the Buccaneer Media and Off the Grid Film & TV drama, which will debut on ITV’s soon-to-launch ITVX streaming platform. ITVX replaces Britbox later this year.
Conde Nast Entertainment Hires Ex-BBC iPlayer Content Chief Victoria Jaye
Former BBC iPlayer and YouTube Originals exec Victoria Jaye has joined Conde Nast Entertainment as VP of Digital Video Programming and Development, Europe. Based in London, she reports to SVP of Digital Video Ezzie Chidi-Ofong. Jaye’s role will focus on creating content around Conde
EXCLUSIVE: New Line has picked up the rights to Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestselling novel In Five Years for HBO Max and set No Good Deed scribe Aimee Lagos to adapt. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce.
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios is seeking an L.A. exec to help discover the next generation of unscripted formats and collaborate with UK headquarters on new shows for the U.S. market, Deadline can reveal.
Disney+ Italy’s ‘The Good Mothers’ Sets Cast
EXCLUSIVE: Italy’s key film and TV market MIA (Mercato Internazionale dell’Audiovisivo) is returning in 2022 with a new director in the shape of Gaia Tridente.
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has got engaged to Scots actress Emma Currie.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Far East Film Festival in Italy’s Udine has set Chinese-Italian co-production “The Italian Recipe” as the opening title of a revived, largely in-person event.The film, directed by Hou Zuxin, sees an unexpected series of events bring together a Chinese reality TV show contestant and a woman already resident in Italy. The collision of personalities, connections and chemistry between stars Liu Xun and Yao Huang resemble those of “Roman Holiday,” festival organizers suggest.
Trinidad Barleycorn French director Louise Carrin, whose home for the past 13 years has been Lausanne, Switzerland, has an urge to create every day, she tells Variety. Moviemaking being a long process, for about 10 years now she has found equal satisfaction in music. She is about to release her debut rap album “Banana Part” under her alias Lweez.
Patrick Dempsey is looking sharp in his two grey suits for the second season launch of Diavoli, held at The Space Odeon on Thursday (April 7) in Milan, Italy.
WATCH: Abbie Chatfield goes viral in Italy over sexist menusCurrently travelling with her boyfriend, Konrad Bien Stephen, Abbie has been flooded with angry messages from Italian men.What caused their outrage? An Instagram story in which Abbie commented on the "sexist" tradition of women being given menus without prices at some Italian restaurants.During a luxury dinner earlier in the week, Abbie took to social media to share her confusion and frustration when her menu didn't have a single price listed.
Marta Balaga The 7th MipDrama ended on Sunday with German series “House of Promises” named as the winner of the Buyers’ Coup de Coeur Award. While the showcase received mixed reactions from the participants, gathered onsite in Cannes – with only Italy’s “Bangla” opting for a more humorous approach – the event marked a win for Finland’s Elisa Viihde, presenting “Evilside,” “Summer of Sorrow” and “The Invicibles” (with Viaplay also attached.) It must be some kind of a record that three out of 10 series are from the same commissioning broadcaster,” said Sari Lempiäinen, executive producer at Elisa Viihde.
Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios, Screenplay, Disney Plus Hotstar Pact for “Doctor Foster” Indonesian AdaptationBBC Studios property “Doctor Foster” is being adapted by Screenplay Films for Disney Plus Hotstar in Indonesia. “Doctor Foster” is the story of a doctor whose life implodes when she uncovers her husband’s infidelity. The show title in Indonesia will be “Mendua” (Between Two Hearts) and Pritagita Arianegara (“Surga yang Tak Dirindukan 3”) will direct.
Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios’ BAFTA nominated amateur sewing competition format “The Great Sewing Bee” from Love Productions and “This is MY House,” the guessing game from Expectation, will be adapted for Discovery in Italy.The six-part Italian version of “The Great Sewing Bee,” is produced locally by Blu Yazmine and will stream air on Discovery June in June, followed by Real Time in the fall. Known locally as “Tailor Made – Chi ha la stoffa?,” the competition hosted by Tommaso Zorzi follows a group of competitors who will race against the clock in three sewing challenges each week in a bid to be crowned the country’s best amateur sewer.
“Historic Collaboration” From India’s Zee And Mexico’s TelevisaUnivision