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Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe UK’s Film and TV Charity has set up a second COVID-19 Recovery Fund, this time with a $2.6M (£2M) pot contributed to by numerous companies including Amazon Prime Video, which has put up $1.3M (£1M).Further donors include BAFTA, BBC Studios, Sky Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment and ViacomCBS, alongside private individuals.The fund will look to support those at greatest personal and professional risk as a result of the pandemic.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterA documentary about the Wirecard financial scandal is in the works at Sky Studios. Gabriela Sperl is developing the project with producer SFFP, it will be directed by Benji and Jono Bergmann of BABKA, who will also co-produce.

The Third Day is the latest collaborative thriller from HBO and Sky Studios.Set on the beautiful and remote British island of Osea, The Third Day follows two people who arrive at different times to a strange and foreboding island isolated from the mainland...

Cameron Roach will in the spring step down from his role as director of drama at Sky's production and sales arm Sky Studios, the company said on Friday. The news was shared by Sky Studios CEO Gary Davey in a memo, in which he said Roach would "spend more time with his family." No successor was named.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterCameron Roach, Director of Drama at Sky Studios, is leaving his position at the UK producer.In an internal note to staff, CEO Gary Davey said the exec was departing to “spend more time with his family”.Roach has been at Sky since 2013, working on shows including Britannia, Bulletproof and Riviera. Since Autumn 2018 he has led Sky Drama in the UK, delivering series including Chernobyl and Gangs of London.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentIn an internal note seen by Variety, Gary Davey, CEO of London-based Sky Studios, has revealed to staff that Cameron Roach is to step down from his role as director of drama at Sky Studios in the spring.In his memo, Davey wrote: “Cameron has decided to take some time out and spend more time with his family in Manchester.”Roach joined Sky Drama as commissioning editor in 2013, and worked across a range of titles including Sky Originals

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety International Editor Manori Ravindran will moderate a conversation about succeeding in the global streaming economy with Yulia Poltorak, Head of International Content Distribution, Roku; Jane Millichip, Chief Commercial Officer, Sky Studios; Kelly Day, Chief Operating Officer, ViacomCBS Networks International; Debbie Weinstein, VP, YouTube and video global solutions, Google; and Stefan Lederer, CEO, Bitmovin.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorNBCUniversal Global Distribution has signed a wide-ranging, multi-year output deal with Stan, which will see the streamer become the exclusive Australian home of new shows from Sky Studios, NBCUniversal International Studios, and Peacock content produced by Universal Studio Group.Also included within the deal are DreamWorks Animation TV shows produced for Peacock and NBCUniversal’s children’s programming, while Stan will also have access to NBCUniversal’s

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorEXCLUSIVE: FilmRise, the Brooklyn-based film and TV distributor, is launching its first original production, forensic investigative series Bloodline Detectives hosted by Nancy Grace with Peninsula Television in partnership with Sky Studios.Genesis TV will syndicate the 20-episode series, which features criminal investigations using familial DNA. It will premiere nationwide Oct.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorComcast-backed Sky Studios has revealed that it is collaborating with producers to rework major drama series in the event that the UK heads back into another Covid-induced lockdown.Deadline reported last week that series including Sky/Epix co-production Britannia and A Discovery Of Witches, which is made in partnership with AMC, will be back in production by the end of September.Sky Studios CEO Gary Davey confirmed this during a virtual Broadcasting Press Guild

Leo Barraclough Senior International Correspondent“This has been a hell of a year,” Gary Davey, CEO of Sky Studios, the production arm of Comcast-owned European pay-TV operator Sky, said Wednesday, contemplating the carnage caused by COVID.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe Great British Bake Off is now two weeks back into production and will likely return to television later this year, according to producer Love Productions’ parent company Sky Studios.The baking competition series, which is shown by Channel 4 in the UK and Netflix in the U.S.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSky original drama and comedies, including David Schwimmer show Intelligence, will broadcast in Canada under a new “multi-year” output deal with Corus Entertainment.From later this year, Corus will premiere multiple Sky series, including those funded or co-produced by the Comcast-owned broadcaster’s television arm, Sky Studios.

Manori Ravindran International EditorCanadian broadcast group Corus Entertainment has picked up a wide-ranging slate of comedies and dramas from Sky Studios.Sky Original dramas and comedies such as “Intelligence,” “Devils” and “Bulletproof” will land on Corus’s roster of channels and platforms, which includes national network Global Television, following the multi-year pact between Corus Entertainment and NBCUniversal Global Distribution, which absorbed the Sky Vision distribution banner in

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentEuropean pay TV operator Sky has taken 100% ownership of Love Productions, the producer behind “The Great British Bake Off.” Sky previously owned a 70% stake in the company, founded by Richard McKerrow.Jane Millichip, Sky Studios’ chief commercial officer, said: “Love Productions is a world-class production company that has continued to create popular, thought-provoking and award-winning factual and factual entertainment shows since Sky first

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

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Sky Studios, the production arm of the Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky, has bolstered its drama investments for the second time in under a month, taking a minority stake in the new TV-focused production outfit Longboat Pictures.

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Sky Studios, the production arm of Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky, has taken a minority stake in new U.K. scripted indie banner The Lighthouse.

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Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky's Sky Studios production arm and Fremantle’s The Apartment, one of the production firms behind The New Pope, on Wednesday unveiled a multi-year drama development and production partnership.Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Under the agreement, Sky Studios will provide development funding for a minimum of three shows alongside a commitment to produce.

Sky Studios and Italy’s The Apartment, the Fremantle-owned production company headed by Lorenzo Mieli, have forged a multi-year development and production partnership that marks Sky’s first agreement of this type outside the U.K.

Sky Italia has launched the first trailer for its highly anticipated thriller “Devils,” set to premiere in April on Sky. Produced by Lux Vide and Orange Studio with funding from Sky Studios, the series is distributed internationally by NBCUniversal Global Distribution.

Sky Studios has signed a first-look script deal with comedy and entertainment indie Ranga Bee, the production company founded by BAFTA-nominated comedian Romesh Ranganathan and Emmy-winning executive producer and director Benjamin Green.

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GÖTEBORG, Sweden — Established Nordic prodco Sagafilm (“Stella Blómkvist”, “Case”) is producing Icelandic crime series “Sisterhood,” in association with Sky Studios, for commissioners NENT Group’s Nordic streamer Viaplay and Iceland’s OTT service Síminn.