UK TV and film projects including ‘The Batman’ set to recommence filming with new guidelines

When Maria Teresa Kumar was nine years-old, she became a citizen of the United States along with her mom. The pair had immigrated from Bogota, Columbia, after her mother fell in love with and married an English teacher working there. The new family then moved to Sonoma, California.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Netflix and the BBC were in lockstep over the decision to remove episodes of Little Britain from their libraries after the British comedy featured blackface sketches, but differences of views are appearing over other shows.In the heat of the Black Lives Matter movement, Deadline can reveal that Netflix has removed four shows from controversial Australian comedian Chris Lilley from its services in Australia and New Zealand.Angry Boys, Summer Heights

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up a raft of film and TV content for the UK market, including Drake Doremus drama Endings, Beginnings with Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan, Sebastian Stan and Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jake Gyllenhaal-produced Sundance horror Relic.The company has also struck deals for classic library titles including Muriel’s Wedding, Luc Besson action pic Taxi and cult sci-fi series Children Of Dune via separate pacts with TF1 and

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Following the success of its debut interactive project The Complex, Cardiff-based producers Good Gate Media are heading into production on Five Dates, a fast-turnaround rom-com project that has been conceptualized and developed during lockdown.Mandip Gill, who played Doctor Who’s companion in the last two series of the long-running UK show, is joined by Georgia Hirst (Vikings), Marisa Abela (who is a lead in Lena Dunham’s upcoming BBC project

Film and television productions in British Columbia has a greenlight to restart a couple months after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered local shoots for Netflix, Warner Bros. and other Hollywood studios and streamers.

The selections for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival have been announced despite this year’s live event being cancelled.

By Nancy Tartaglione

Having come to a screeching halt in mid-March as the novel coronavirus pandemic took hold, U.K. film and high-end TV production – an industry of huge importance both to the local economy and Hollywood, with 2019 reaching a record spend of $4.7 million – has been given a major green light to start moving again.

The British government and health bodies have formerly endorsed a comprehensive set of guidelines that will allow shoots to restart in one of the world's film and high-end production capitals after they were shut down due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The British Film Commission released their safety guidelines for restarting COVID-19 film production late Sunday after weeks of discussions by the British Film Institute’s coronavirus task force with labor organizations, epidemiologists, and studios based in both the U.K. and United States.

The British Film Commission released their safety guidelines for restarting COVID-19 film production late Sunday after weeks of discussions by the British Film Institute’s coronavirus task force with labor organizations, epidemiologists, and studios based in both the U.K. and United States.

Almost one in five Londoners and 5% of the rest of the UK as a whole may have had coronavirus, the government has revealed.