Stewart Clarke

EXCLUSIVE: Swedish super-indie B-Reel Films has taken film and TV rights to Jävla Karlar ('Bloody Men' in English), the award-winning novel from Andrev Walden. Jävla Karlar took Sweden by storm when it was released in 2023. It was the country's best selling book of the year and scooped the August…

EXCLUSIVE: With COP29 underway, a host of UK broadcasters have agreed on a method to measure the climate change impact of their on-screen content. It means a raft of data will be gathered from early 2025. The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the United Nation's annual climate change gathering. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky Studios has boarded the TV adaptation of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London and is developing it with Tom Winchester's drama indie Pure Fiction. With Sky Studios attached, the series will bow on Sky in the UK. Deadline understands there is U.S. buyer interest although no confirmed deal…

From playing Leonard Cohen to a conflicted frat boy, Alex Wolff's recent on-screen roles span life on idyllic Greek islands to toxic college parties. Next up is his second directing effort, If She Burns. "I didn’t realize how much of a razor’s edge I was walking when I was making the movie, but I…

It was the TellyCast Digital Content Forum in London this week and the message was clear for traditional TV producers – you either embrace social and digital platforms or face lean times. There were some key takeaways. UK-based ITV Studios shared how it has generated huge views for a George Clooney…

Free TV coverage of the Tour de France could continue in the UK after Warner Bros. Discovery landed the exclusive UK rights to the event – having been the only bidder for them. WBD, which owns Eurosport, is looking at its options including running a highlights package on one of its free TV channels. ITV…

EXCLUSIVE: A new AI-powered platform has launched that its founders claim will provide the industry with a fresh way to submit and review scripts. "Wscripted has been built to disrupt how the industry reviews submissions of content, develops and accesses new stories," its founder Ellie Jamen said…

Children of the Church Steps (Os Quatro da Candelária) dropped on Netflix today. It is inspired by events that took place in Rio, Brazil, in 1993 in what has come to be known as the Candelária Massacre. Eight homeless people – aged between 11 and 19-years-old – were killed when scores of street kids…

Could the next Squid Game, Lupin or Money Heist hail from Latin America? TV history teaches us you cannot engineer a global hit, but with three tentpole projects launching in the next few months, Netflix is stacking the odds in favor of the next worldwide watercooler show coming from the region. Each of…

There has been plenty of fat to chew on this week at MIPCOM in Cannes. The television industry is clearing a path forwards after a very difficult few years, and that route became clearer during the four-day confab. Below, we identify some of the key takeaways from the Croisette. Squeezed Middle In Scr…

Mediapro's fledgling North American studio unveiled a raft of new movies, series, docs and formats in a news-packed MIPCOM keynote this morning. John Turturro delivered a video address and spoke about his adaptation of Is There No Place on Earth for Me? as the Spanish media giant made a series of…

EXCLUSIVE: Leonard Cohen drama So Long, Marianne will play in a raft of new territories after Cineflix cut new distribution deals for the buzzy project, which played in competition at Series Mania. The series tells the love story of Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen, and an extraordinary…