Channel 4 unveils 2019 slate focusing on “big issues”

Channel 4 is looking to tackle the big issues facing Britain today in its new slate of 2019 series and specials.

Channel 4 Director of Programmes Ian Katz launched the channel’s line-up for the year last week, with a broad … Read More

Netflix begins production on Mandarin drama The Ghost Bride

Netflix has begun production on its new Mandarin drama, The Ghost Bride.

The six-episode drama, which is directed by award-winning Malaysian directors Quek Shio-Chuan and Ho Yu-Hang, is an adaptation of a New York Times bestseller of the same name … Read More

Extremely Wicked: Netflix nabs US rights to Zac Efron Ted Bundy drama

Let it never be said that Netflix doesn’t know what it customers want – and, in the case of 2019, it turns out that is “Ted Bundy”. Hot off the heels of its own Conversations with a Killer docuseries about … Read More

Trailer: Keeley Hawes stars in Channel 4 and Netflix’s Traitors

“The war is over.” “Wars don’t end.” That’s the sound of Keeley Hawes going back to Spooks territory in new espionage drama Traitors.

A co-production between Channel 4 and Netflix, Hawes leads an impressive cast that includes Michael Stuhlbarg and … Read More

Team Kaylie: Netflix orders new comedy starring Bryana Salaz

Netflix has begun production on new live action comedy series Team Kaylie, starring actress-singer Bryana Salaz (Best Friends Whenever, The Voice).

Salaz plays Kaylie Konrad, a rich, nineteen-year-old selfie obsessed celebrity who receives a community service court order to lead … Read More

Amazon acquires Sundance award winner One Child Nation

The Sundance Film Festival may be over for 2019, but Amazon hasn’t quite finished its spending spree, with one more film on its shopping list: One Child Nation.

The film, directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, follows Wang’s 2016 … Read More

Walter Presents sets February premiere for Scandi thriller Greyzone

Walter Presents’ new Scandi thriller, Greyzone, will touch down this February.

The programme, which brings a timely, terrifying theme of cyber terrorism to the world of Nordic Noir, a poignant and absorbing drama that raises moral dilemmas and heartbeats alike.

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Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma wins at 2019 DGA Awards

Alfonso Cuaron took home the top prize at this weekend’s DGA Awards, once again putting Netflix’s Roma near the front of this year’s awards race.

The director, who last won the prize five years ago for Gravity, accepted his second … Read More

Amazon’s Brittany Runs a Marathon leads Sundance 2019 Audience Awards

After 10 days and 121 feature films, the 2019 Sundance Film Festival officially draws to a close today, and after a quiet year in 2018, this year has seen the return of major spending sprees from Amazon Studios, Netflix, HBO … Read More

Sundance: HBO snaps up Share and Native Son

Amazon has stolen the show at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, acquiring what can only be described as “a lot” of movies, some of them at record-setting prices. But HBO has also been busy quietly buying up a pair of … Read More