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Andy Harries, the influential producer behind The Crown, has said the UK is at risk of becoming a Hollywood “service industry” unless local storytelling is protected.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC was victorious in a bidding war with Netflix for Dear England amid fears for the future of British storytelling on television.

EXCLUSIVE: The Crown‘s success has helped bestow gifts upon the employees of Left Bank Pictures.

EXCLUSIVE: The Rolling Stones can’t get no satisfaction at FX.

The Crown jewels are going on sale.

Line of Duty star Vicky McClure is to lead the cast of Paramount+ UK drama Insomnia.

The producers of “The Crown” want to be sensitive.

tragic death of Princess Diana will play out on screen.Executive producers Andy Harries and Suzanne Mackie have claimed that they filmed the passing of Diana (played by Elizabeth Debicki) with “enormous sensitivity.”The pair noted that the death scene — the Princess of Wales died at the age of 36 in 1997 in a fiery car crash in Paris — will be shown in the early episodes of the season, according to Deadline.“The show might be big and noisy, but we’re not. We’re thoughtful people and we’re sensitive people. There were very careful, long conversations about how we were going to do it,” Mackie recently explained of the Netflix series at the Edinburgh TV Festival.“The audience will judge it in the end, but I think it’s been delicately, thoughtfully recreated,” she said.“Elizabeth Debicki is an extraordinary actress, and she was so thoughtful and considerate.

An executive producer of The Crown has said Diana, Princess of Wales’s death in season six will be recreated sensitively. Speaking as part of a panel at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Suzanne Mackie told the Edinburgh Book Festival it was important for the team behind the hit series to be “sensitive”. She said: “The show might be big and noisy, but we’re not.

The producers of The Crown say they have filmed the death of Princess Diana with “enormous sensitivity” as they brace for what could be the most controversial moment in the show’s history.

EXCLUSIVE: Luther Ford, who is playing Prince Harry in the upcoming final season of The Crown, has signed with talent agency Hamilton Hodell.

Netflix has a new Chief Action Officer. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken on the job in a promo featuring footage of the streaming network’s upcoming action series and films. See it above.

Netflix has unveiled first-look images of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s budding romance in The Crown Season 6.

Netflix has greenlit a Keira Knightley-starring thriller, the latest series from The Crown producer Left Bank and a Bank of Dave sequel.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has greenlit a UK original drama series based on Sarah Pinborough’s sleep deprivation thriller novel Insomnia.

Droughtlander is nearly over as Starz sets the premiere date for Outlander‘s seventh season for Friday, June 16 at midnight ET via streaming, and internationally on the Lionsgate+ premium streaming platform in the U.K. For linear viewers, the show premieres on the same day at 8 p.m. ET/PT in the U.S. New episodes will be released weekly on Fridays.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has quietly taken full control of The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures in a deal worth £5.5M ($6.6M).

Staying out of it. Sarah Ferguson denied offering to consult on season 5 of The Crown, which will chronicle the royal family’s ups and downs in the early 1990s.

Netflix has released some new images of Season 5 of The Crown, including character posters with the tagline “A House Divided,” revealing a split between the two sides.

Netflix’s Tudum has released new photos from Season 5 of The Crown, which includes the first images of Princes William and Harry, along with photos of Imelda Staunton as the Queen, Elizabeth Debicki as Diana and Dominic West as Charles, among others.

EXCLUSIVE: Izzy Meikle-Small (Never Let Me Go, Snow White and the Huntsman) and Joey Phillips (Billy Elliot) has joined the cast of Starz‘s for Season 7. The pair will play brother and sister Rachel Hunter and Dr. Denzell Hunter, respectively.

EXCLUSIVE: Snabba Cash and The Rain star Evin Ahmad is to lead Netflix’s upcoming female-led action adventure series Palomino, with filming kicking off in Barcelona later this year.

K.J. Yossman Left Bank Pictures’ CEO Andy Harries will take over as the new chair of the Film London Executive Task Force this month.Harries, whose company produces “The Crown” among other high-end dramas, succeeds the inaugural chair, Lord David Puttnam, who has been in the role since 2004.Harries established Left Bank Pictures in 2007; Sony Pictures Television acquired the company in 2012.The Film London Executive Task Force is comprised of stakeholders from both the screen industry, including Netflix, Channel 4 and The Production Guild, and the public sector, such as the Metropoliton Police.

K.J. Yossman “The Crown” producers Left Bank Pictures are making “Palomino – a new female-led series – for Netflix.The eight-part series revolves around Erin Collantes, a British teacher in Spain who gets caught up in a “brutal” supermarket robbery.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set female-led action adventure series Palomino from Sony-backed The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, with filming set to get underway later this year in Barcelona.

Sarah Ferguson, Prince Andrew’s ex-wife, offered to be an adviser on “The Crown”.

Straight from the royal’s mouth! Sarah Ferguson doesn’t appear much as a character in Netflix’s The Crown, but if the writers decide to add her in for season 5, the real Duchess of York is ready to help.

By Manori Ravindran

The Crown producer Andy Harries has said he does not know when his shows will be able to resume filming normally, and cast doubt on whether it would be possible for them to use social distancing.

By Jake Kanter