UK’s Global Screen Fund Backs 9 International Co-Productions With $1.75M

Where is the next Squid Game, Line of Duty or The Bridge coming from? These are questions we frequently pose at Deadline and, hopefully, we’ve identified some key contenders below.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Cinderella’ Postponed For Seven Weeks

WarnerMedia Signs Nordic Theatrical Boss

Naman Ramachandran Global sales of British TV shows in 2020/21 declined 3.3% to £1.4 billion ($1.8 billion), the TV Exports Report from U.K. screen sector trade body Pact reveals.

K.J. Yossman Love Productions, the Comcast-back production company behind “The Great British Bake Off” (or “The Great British Baking Show,” as it’s known in the U.S.), have posted a pandemic turnover of £85 million ($114 million) for the period between July 2019 and December 2020.The turnover dwarfs that of the previous year, which amounted to £61.5 million.

UK Global Screen Fund Awards

Naman Ramachandran Apple TV Plus has set a Feb. 4, 2022 streaming date for thriller series “Suspicion,” starring Uma Thurman (“Kill Bill”).

Viaplay Strikes Mega Banijay Scripted Deal On Eve Of U.S. Launch

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVDuring the most recent season of MTV’s competition program “The Challenge,” subtitled “Spies, Lies & Allies,” the competitors initially had to work in pairs, despite major language barriers among them.In these games, veteran players from past seasons of “The Challenge” compete against vets of other series including “Survivor,” “Big Brother” and “Love Island” from around the world.

108 Media Acquires DCD Rights

After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Broadway classic and 10x Oscar-winning 1961 movie, West Side Story, finally tunes up this weekend as the sole wide major studio theatrical release in 2,800 U.S./Canada theaters and offshore debuts in France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and UK. All in, the global outlook is $22M-$31M, with $12M-$17M coming from domestic and $10M-$14M from abroad. The 20th Century Studios-Amblin production is being released by Disney.

Banijay Benelux Unveils SimpelZodiak MD

Daniel Doperalski For nearly 190 million total viewing hours last week, Netflix audiences were screaming the rallying cry “Bella Ciao” after the fifth and final installment of the Spanish drama series “La Casa de Papel” (“Money Heist”) dropped Dec. 3 on the streamer.Within two days, “Money Heist” stole the thunder of Netflix’s English language shows, rising to No.

Prebble, Davies And Kirkwood Up For WGGB Awards

Glenda Jackson, Charlotte Moore & Michaela Coel Among WFTV Winners

BIFAs Sets Host

UK’s Alibi Acquires ‘Pretty Hard Cases’

Primal Scream have added two extra dates to their ‘Screamadelica’ UK tour next year – find all the details belowAs announced in September, Bobby Gillespie and co. will perform their seminal 1991 album in full next July to mark its 30th anniversary.