Hello Insiders, the big international chatter this week came from Cannes, but there’s been plenty of film and TV stories elsewhere. Jesse Whittock here guiding you through. Sign up here. Another MIP In The Cannes VALERY HACHE/AFP via…

EXCLUSIVE: Kylie Washington has just overseen the launch of three BBC television mega brands in Australia, and readily admits the pressure has been on. The BBC Studios ANZ General Manager and Creative Director of Production knows new versions of Death in Paradise, The Office and Top Gear require full…

Korean actress Song Ji-hyo is swapping the film set for the depths of the season. She is the center of Deep Dive Korea: Song Ji-Hyo’s Haenyeo Adventure, a doc series from BBC Studios and JTBC. Across three episodes, Song will free dive with the haenyeo underwater sea fishers, whose tradition has been…

‘Yellowstone’ & More Packed in Paramount Volume For BeIN Middle Eastern broadcast giant BeIN Media has secured the likes of Yellowstone, Frasier and Colin From Accounts through an exclusive multi-year agreement with Paramount Global Content Distribution. Also included in the deal are Yellowstone…

BBC Studios is unifying content sales under Janet Brown. Having brought several divisions closer together over the past year or so, the BBC’s commercial arm will launch a Global Content Sales division with Brown overseeing content sales across all regions while centralizing global operations…

The BBC has picked up BritBox International’s Lynley adaptation, with BritBox unveiling first-look image, rounding out cast and rolling cameras. Deadline revealed the adaptation of the hit Elizabeth George novels several months back starring Leo Suter as the eponymous lead and Sofia Barclay as DS…

BBC Studios Pounces On ‘Big Cats 24/7’ Sales BBC Studios and PBS’s upcoming natural history show Big Cats 24/7 has landed a host of pre-buyers ahead of MIPCOM Cannes. In China, Bilibili, iQiyi, Tencent, Youku and linear channel CCTV World Geography have bought the BBC Studios Natural History…

Karl Warner, the former Channel 4 digital exec, has joined BBC Studios as Executive Vice President of UK Entertainment and Digital Development. Working with the recently formed BBC Studios Global Entertainment division will form a new team focused on creating new IP and formats for the BBC as well as…

EXCLUSIVE: Long-serving BBC Studios formats exec Andre Renaud is jumping over to Warner Bros International Television Production (WBITVP). We can reveal the industry veteran is joining Warner Bros Discovery’s London-based international team in November as Global VP of Finished and Format Sales and…

BBC Heading On More ‘Famous Five’ Adventures The BBC is heading on a second set of The Famous Five adventures. Nicolas Winding Refn’s version, which is made by The Gentleman co-producer Moonage and byNWR with Mediapro Studio, will roll cameras on two more 90-minute eps, which follows the three that…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios has revealed how much it paid to bolster its international production footprint earlier this year with the acquisitions of Australia’s Werner Film Productions and Spain’s Brutal Media. BBC Studios paid an initial consideration of AUD$6M ($4M) for 100% of Werner, the company…

EXCLUSIVE: Neil Gaiman is understood to have offered to step back from the third and final season of Prime Video’s fantasy drama Good Omens. Deadline revealed on Monday that pre-production had paused on the BBC Studios-produced show in the wake of allegations made by four women against Gaiman, which…