'Tehran' Producer Julien Leroux Launches Paper Entertainment

Andy Cohen is to front and executive produce a provocative new format for Peacock, in which singletons brave unfiltered feedback from their exes. The NBCUniversal streamer also confirmed that he is involved in a reboot of The Real Housewives Of Miami.

Slowthai is heading for his first UK Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with new record Tyron.

Asacha Media Group, the Paris-based production group founded last year by three former Endemol Shine and Zodiak executives, has acquired a majority stake in British production and distribution company WAG Entertainment for an undisclosed amount.

Manori Ravindran International EditorFounded by Oscar-winning “Man on Wire” producer Simon Chinn and Emmy winner Jonathan Chinn, high-end documentary producer Lightbox is navigating the next phase of its evolution, and exiting one of the key initiatives that helped the transatlantic company set up shop.Variety can reveal that the London- and Los Angeles-based outfit is buying back its shares and leaving U.K.

It’s happened to the best of us but it looks like Billie Piper may have put her foot in it with Kylie Minogue.

Amazon Signs Channel 4 Commissioner Channel 4 documentaries commissioner Fozia Khan has joined Amazon Prime Video unscripted team in the UK. She will report to head of unscripted Dan Grabiner, who is responsible for shows including All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur. Khan will join Amazon in the summer and news of her departure follows a commissioning restructure at Channel 4. Her appointment was first reported by UK trade Broadcast.

Abigail Thorn, the star of the YouTube channel Philosophy Tube, has come out as transgender.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy-winning British production company Rise Films is developing the first major television drama series on the phone-hacking scandal that shook the very foundations of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the early noughties.

EXCLUSIVE: Global lit and talent agency Curtis Brown Group has inked a deal to represent its first podcast company, Message Heard.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has renewed its first non-English language original series, Israeli espionage thriller drama Tehran, for a second season.

EXCLUSIVE: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Media is partnering with Israeli production firm Tedy Productions, known for making hit shows including the original teen drama Euphoria and game show A Star Is Born.

Britain’s Got Talent could be postponed until 2022, despite plans for it to go ahead in the summer, it has been reported. Producers of the show are said to be “almost certain” the programme could be scrapped for this year, with the series not likely to be put on air until spring 2022.

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has back-tracked on its decision to commission a second season of Victorian-era comedy crime caper Year Of The Rabbit after the coronavirus pandemic forced the British broadcaster into £150M ($205M) of content cuts.

Slowthai has pushed back the release of his forthcoming second album ‘TYRON’ by one week.The Northampton rapper – real name Tyron Frampton – was initially set to release the ‘Nothing Great About Britain’ follow-up on February 5.He told fans earlier this month that he’d be releasing the record on time, despite the coronavirus pandemic resulting in continued disruption to the music industry.

BBC Studios, the commercial and production arm of the U.K. public broadcaster BBC, has taken full control of British film and TV banner Clerkenwell Films, upping its stake from 48 percent to 100 percent.

Warner Bros will be releasing Wonka on March 17, 2023, a prequel to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which focuses on the candy architect Willy Wonka’s younger days before having his confection empire.