Jesse joined Deadline in 2022 from UK TV trade Broadcast, where he had most recently been Insight Editor, overseeing features and long-form reporting. He worked across editing and commissioning and wrote news, features and long-read articles for Broadcast’s monthly magazine and website. A veteran entertainment industry journalist, he has also worked at Television Business International, where he was Editor, and at C21. He is based in London.
EXCLUSIVE: Indie horror film If It Bleeds has added four to its cast.
Khleo Thomas (Holes), Vanessa Decker (Stiletto), Adam Bucci (Brute 1976) and Maren Altman have joined lead actress Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier) in Matthew Hersh’s debut feature, which is billed as an “anthology-style”…
Mediapro Studio Buys 'Game Of Thrones' Firm Fresco Film
The Mediapro Studio has bought Fresco Film, the Malaga-based production services company that played a key role in Game of Thrones filming in Spain, helping to establish a lucrative tax credit system in the process. Mediapro sees the acquisition…
EXCLUSIVE: YMU literary chief Amanda Harris will leave the British agency next year to launch her own business.
Harris has been with the London-headquartered agency, which reps the likes of Simon Cowell, since 2019 and two years later set up YMU Literary, becoming Global Managing Director of the…
Netflix’s House of Guinness has brewed its cast.
James Norton (Happy Valley, Bob Marley: One Love) and Jack Gleeson (Game of Thrones, In The Land of Saints and Sinners) have been named among the cast for Steven Knight-penned Guinness factory drama series.
Joining them are Niamh McCormack (Everyth…
Discovery+ and Max provide “equally” good, “if not better,” value for Olympic Games coverage than Europe’s public broadcasters, Warner Bros Discovery’s President of Sports in EMEA has said.
During a call with journalists this morning, Andrew Georgiou built the case for consumers paying for the Paris…
Apple TV+’s debut German original drama Where’s Wanda? will launch globally on Wednesday, October 2.
The first two episodes will drop that day, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through to November 13.
The series was Apple’s first German scripted series order and the industry has been…
Rumpus Signs Entertainment Boss
The producer of RuPaul-hosted CBS gameshow Lingo is heading to Late Night Lycett indie Rumpus, as the STV Studios-backed outfit moves to its next phase. Adeel Amini is taking on the newly-created role of Head of Entertainment, several months after Rumpus founders Iain W…
Sony Pictures Television has struck a multi-year, co-development deal with Anxo Rodríguez’s Espotlight.
The first-look deal will see SPT co-developing and co-producing productions with the Spanish production house and comes after Sony launched its first Spanish-language scripted series filmed in…
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian coming-of-age comedy Don’t Even has a first-look trailer — watch it here.
The Crave and APTN series, about two Indigenous best friends in 1990s Canada in their final year of school, is billed as a “funny, relatable, and heartwarming take on friendship, growing up, and the…
EXCLUSIVE: More spooky times ahead in Canada, where Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan has been renewed at public broadcaster CBC.
The series, from Blue Ant Studios in association with Luke Hutchie Productions, follows amateur ghost wranglers and EZRA actors Hutchie and Finlan as they…
Football and TV collabs of the past have yielded Ted Lasso, All or Nothing and The English Game, and the field is now set for another player.
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and City Football Group (CFG), the parent of English Premier League champions Manchester City, have struck a strategic deal to…
‘Tinder Swindler’ Indie Builds Features Team
All3Media’s Raw, the company behind The Tinder Swindler, Three Identical Strangers and upcoming Amazon MGM Studios doc Crime 101, has hired Sam Gordon as producer/executive producer for its features team. Gordon is an experienced film and TV producer, with…