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AMC+ has picked up ITV’s soon-to-air big-budget adaptation of Len Deighton’s The Ipcress File from distributor ITV Studios. AMC+ viewers will recognise lead Joe Cole, who plays iconic British spy Harry Palmer and also starred in Sky Atlantic’s Gangs Of London, which the streamer shows in the U.S. The…

‘Gangs Of London’ Dominates Bafta Cymru Sky Atlantic drama Gangs of London swept up at last night’s Bafta Wales Cymru Awards, winning four awards, while the leads in It’s A Sin and Saint Maud took home the Best Actor and Best Actress gongs. Pulse Films’ Gangs of London won in four technical categories as ITV’s Pembroke…

EXCLUSIVE: From writers rooms to board meetings and Friday night cocktail hours, the world of virtual meetings has boomed during the coronavirus lockdown. Here's one that might be an industry first – last night the cast and crew of Sky's upcoming series Gangs Of London got together to toast the show ahead of TX on…

EXCLUSIVE: Znak & Co is the latest TV production company to launch a podcast division and its Westworld fan show spin-off is its first project in the medium. The production company, run by Natalka Znak, is moving West: Word, its weekly talk show based on the HBO drama, from television, where it airs on British…

UPDATE: Sky has confirmed an eight-episode order. EXCLUSIVE, October 30, 2019: Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films is adapting C J Skuse's novel Sweetpea for Sky Atlantic. The company, which also makes SundanceTV's short-form series State of the Union, is developing the comedy drama, which is described as American P…

Sky is to debut an ambitious family documentary project – nearly four years after kicking off filming. Sky Atlantic is to air This Is Our Family, a four-part series telling the stories of four families across the UK, in January 2020. The Comcast-owned broadcaster originally commissioned the series in early 2016 from…

EXCLUSIVE: Billions' David Costabile, Transparent's Amy Landecker and Parenthood's Matt Lauria have joined the cast of Sky Atlantic period drama Little Birds alongside Juno Temple. The Dirty John star is fronting the adaptation of Anais Nin's infamous collection of erotic short stories, which is set in Tangier in…

EXCLUSIVE: The creative team behind Patrick Melrose, the BAFTA-winning Benedict Cumberbatch-fronted drama, are in active discussions about bringing the limited series back for more episodes. Patrick Melrose was originally set up as a five-episode order with each episode of the show based on one of Edward St Aubyn’s…

Julia Stiles' sun-soaked crime thriller Riviera is returning for a third season on Sky Atlantic. The British pay-TV broadcaster has ordered another eight-part run with filming set to start in Autumn 2019. The third series will see Julia Stiles take the glitz and glamour of the Cote d'Azur around the globe as her…

Chernobyl has become the third best ever launch for an original drama on Sky Atlantic with its opening episode scoring a cumulative audience of 1.7M. The HBO co-pro, which is produced by Jane Featherstone's Sister Pictures, was the biggest audience for a Sky original drama this year and its launch is only behind Fortit…

The Game of Thrones finale scored 3.8M viewers for Sky Atlantic in the UK – making it the second largest overnight audience for a Sky drama ever. It was beaten by its own – ironic for the HBO series – with episode four of the final season securing 3.94M viewers, helped by the fact that it fell on a May bank holiday…

Game of Thrones broke ratings records for HBO for the Sunday night bow of season eight and the epic fantasy drama has just done the same in the UK on Sky. The British pay-TV platform recorded its biggest overnight audience ever for Winterfell; the hour-long episode launched with a total audience of 3.4M viewers. This…