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Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has landed the North American rights to BBC One’s estranged family comedy The Other One, which stars BAFTA-winning Avenue 5 actress Rebecca Front.Acorn TV, which has also acquired The Other One in the Netherlands, will premiere the Tiger Aspect show on August 10 in the U.S.

Jake Kanter, Tom Grater ITV confirms ‘The Cube’s return ITV has confirmed what Deadline reported weeks ago — that game show The Cube is returning after being rested for five years. Objective Media Group label Wildcard Television will make a new five-part series, which will be hosted by Phillip Schofield.

Tom Grater, Jake Kanter UK-China relations took a further dive today after the UK government announced it would ban its mobile providers from buying new Huawei 5G equipment as of December 31, and mandated they remove all existing equipment from their networks by 2027. The move follows sanctions imposed on the Chinese tech giant by the U.S..

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Monkey Kingdom, the NBCUniversal-owned British production company, has apologized profusely after mistaking comedian Dane Baptiste for actor Richard Blackwood during an exchange with the former.Baptiste tweeted about the error on Monday, revealing that a TV production company sent him a press photo for his approval.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorFremantle label Naked has poached Fatima Salaria, Channel 4’s head of specialist factual, as its managing director after Simon Andreae was promoted to become Fremantle UK’s chief executive.The My Grandparents War and Putin: A Russian Spy Story commissioner will work closely with Naked’s creative director Tom O’Brien and COO Susie Dark.Naked makes shows including BBC Three’s Rap Game UK and was commissioned by BBC One last week to adapt Korean format I Can See

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: WarnerMedia has hired Johannes Larcher, the former Hulu executive and current boss of Shahid, the word’s largest Arabic language streamer, to lead to the global rollout of HBO Max.Larcher will join the AT&T-owned company in August as head of HBO Max International, reporting to Gerhard Zeiler, chief revenue officer of WarnerMedia and president of WarnerMedia International Networks.His first task will be launching HBO Max in Latin America next year,

Jake Kanter, Tom Grater BBC to premiere Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Strasbourg 1518’Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer’s latest film Strasbourg 1518 is to premiere on BBC Two on July 20. The film is part of the BBC’s Culture in Quarantine initiative, and features performances from great dancers inspired by the so-called dancing plague that broke out in Strasbourg in 1518.

Jake Kanter, Peter White, Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: Billions’ Damian Lewis and The Affair alum Dominic West are in negotiations to headline and executive produce a limited series adaptation of bestselling Cold War espionage thriller A Spy Among Friends for Spectrum Originals and UK streamer BritBox.The six-episode A Spy Among Friends, based on Ben Macintyre’s book, comes from former Homeland executive producer Alexander Cary, Sony Pictures Television and ITV Studios.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Comcast’s European broadcaster Sky has taken full control of Love Productions, the producer behind Channel 4 hit The Great British Bake Off.Sky took a 70.41% stake in Love Productions in 2014, and now the pay-TV operator has acquired the remaining 29.59% of shares in the Richard McKerrow-founded outfit, as it continues to build its production empire.Jane Millichip, Sky Studios’ chief commercial officer, said: “Love Productions is a world-class

Jake Kanter International TV EditorHello, and welcome to International Insider, Jake Kanter here. Well done on making it to Friday, here are the six things we want you to know about the global film and TV business this week.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: ITV is developing a miniseries on Ian Paterson, the infamous British surgeon who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after performing unnecessary and body-altering operations on more than 1,000 patients over a period of 14 years.Deadline can reveal that ITV is working on the three-part series with Hat Trick Mercurio Television, the production outfit co-owned by Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio and Hat Trick Productions, the Jimmy Mulville-run indie

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: The Cartel, the production, finance and management company behind AMC’s Creepshow, has tapped Paradigm’s Ryan Saul as a manager/producer and promoted Bradford Bricken to partner.Saul joins The Cartel after only a year at Paradigm.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorHello, and welcome to International Insider, Jake Kanter here. In the week where the Premier League returned to our screens and Ian Holm sadly left them, here are the seven things we want you to know about the global film and TV business.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Amazon is poised to extend its relationship with The Grand Tour star James May by swapping his spanner with a wooden spoon for a cookery program.The presenter has been known to dabble in the kitchen on YouTube, but will now get rather more serious about his culinary experiments in a cookery show made by his long-time collaborators at Plum Pictures.British newspaper The Sun has previously reported on his ambition to do a cooking show, but Deadline can

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