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Parish will end after its first and only season, AMC confirmed Thursday.

The show, loosely based on British drama series The Driver, starred Giancarlo Esposito, Zackary Momoh and Paula Malcomson, among others, and premiered in March.

“We’re so proud of Parish, and thankful for the creative talent involved and the performances they were able to bring to the screen, starting with the remarkable Giancarlo Esposito, Skeet Ulrich and the entire cast,” AMC said in a statement. “We are unfortunately unable to proceed with a second season, but Season 1 will remain available on AMC+ to fans who want to relive this thrill-ride-of-a-series and those yet to discover it.”

The Hollywood Reporter‘s review of the show praised Esposito’s performance, calling him “an emotionally volcanic leading man,” but criticized most other aspects, saying “it’s full of extended sequences that you’ve seen done better countless times.”

Esposito played Gracian “Gray” Parish,...

Giancarlo Esposito is parking his Parish car.

AMC has canceled the crime drama after one season. It comes after the adaptation of British drama series The Driver premiered in March.

“We’re so proud of Parish, and thankful for the creative talent involved and the performances they were able to bring to the screen, starting with the remarkable Giancarlo Esposito, Skeet Ulrich and the entire cast,” the company said. “We are unfortunately unable to proceed with a second season, but Season 1 will remain available on AMC+ to fans who want to relive this thrill-ride-of-a-series and those yet to discover it.”

The series stars Esposito as Gracian Parish, a family man and proud owner of a luxury car service in New Orleans. After his son is violently murdered and his business collapses, an encounter with an old friend from his days as a wheelman resurfaces old habits, sending Gracian on a...

AMC has canceled the drama series “Parish” after just one season, Variety has confirmed.

The six-episode series debuted on AMC in March. It was based on the BBC One series “The Driver,” with Giancarlo Esposito starring in the American series.

“We’re so proud of ‘Parish,’ and thankful for the creative talent involved and the performances they were able to bring to the screen, starting with the remarkable Giancarlo Esposito, Skeet Ulrich and the entire cast,” AMC said in a statement. “We are unfortunately unable to proceed with a second season, but season one will remain available on AMC+ to fans who want to relive this thrill ride of a series and those yet to discover it.”

Esposito starred as Gracian “Gray” Parish, described as “a family man and proud owner of a luxury car service in New Orleans. After his son is violently murdered and his business collapses, an...

Lionsgate UK has struck a distribution deal with Zygi Kamasa’s True Brit Entertainment to release Anand Tucker’s The Critic in the UK and Ireland.

Set in 1930s London, the film stars Ian McKellen as a vicious theatre critic who strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, played by Gemma Arterton. Mark Strong, Ben Barnes and Lesley Manville co-star.

It will be released in theatres on September 13.

The Critic premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2023 and was acquired by True Brit for the UK on the condition the film was re-edited and key cast were brought back...

Lionsgate UK has locked a deal with Zygi Kamasa’s True Brit Entertainment to release the Ian McKellen pic The Critic.

The studio will release the feature in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday 13 September.

The film stars McKellen alongside Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Alfred Enoch, Romola Garai, Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone) and Lesley Manville.

Set in 1930s London, the pic is described as “a thrilling tale of ambition, blackmail, and desire with a dazzling anti-hero at its heart.” The synopsis reads: When the most feared and vicious theatre critic in town Jimmy Erskine (Mckellen), finds himself suddenly in the cross hairs of the Daily Chronicle’s new owner David Brooke (Strong), he strikes...

Giancarlo Esposito is returning to AMC, the home of his Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, in Parish, a thriller set in New Orleans.

Esposito, himself a gearhead, stars as Gracian “Gray” Parish, a family man and proud owner of a luxury car service in The Big Easy.

Speaking at AMC’s TCA press tour, Esposito said New Orleans is a “city of demons”.

“It’s a city that has a majority of churches, more than any other city in America. It’s a city with bars on every corner, where you can party until four in the morning. It seems like a place where you have to make a choice and our show’s a lot about the choices that Gracian Parish makes, whether they be good choices or bad choices and how they affect his family,” he said. “It was so much about the family and community, not only the city,...

AMC Networks’ new teaser trailer for Parish finds Giancarlo Esposito reciting “The Lord’s Prayer” as scenes of car crashes and buildings on fire flit by in the background. Described as a high-octane drama, the six-episode season is targeting a March 2024 premiere.

Joining Critics Choice Award winner Giancarlo Esposito are Zackary Momoh (The Nevers), Skeet Ulrich (Riverdale), Paula Malcomson (Watchmen), Bonnie Mbuli (Invictus), Ivan Mbakop (Hawkeye), Arica Himmel (Mixed-ish), and Dax Rey (The Good Fight). Emmy winner Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) appears in a recurring role, and SAG nominee Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale) guest stars.

“In the series, Esposito stars as Gracian ‘Gray’ Parish, a family man and proud owner of a luxury car service in New Orleans,” reads AMC’s synopsis. “After his son is violently murdered and his business collapses, an encounter with an old friend from his days as a wheelman resurfaces old habits, sending...

Prime Video series “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” has unveiled first look images.

The series is a reimagining of the 2005 film starring Brad Pit and Angelina Jolie as Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith, respectively. In this iteration, Donald Glover (“The Martian”) stars as John Smith, while Maya Erskine (“PEN15”) stars as Jane Smith.

This new version features John and Jane both landing jobs working for an international spy agency where they must pose as spouses Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith. As they navigate a new mission each week, they find themselves falling in love with one another, complicating — and compromising — their “strictly business” relationship. Notably, this version features an intentional sham marriage between two strangers, as compared to the 2005 original, in which Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith were married without being aware of each other’s identity as an assassin.

Glover serves as co-creator and executive producer, along with Francesca Sloane...

AMC Networks released a first-look teaser trailer and photos for its upcoming action-packed drama “Parish”, premiering on AMC and AMC+ in 2024. The six-episode series stars and is executive produced by Emmy® and SAG® Award-nominee and Critics Choice® Award-winner Giancarlo Esposito.

Esposito stars as Gracian “Gray” Parish, a family man and proud owner of a luxury car service in New Orleans. After his son is violently murdered and his business collapses, an encounter with an old friend from his days as a wheelman resurfaces old habits, sending Gray on a high-stakes collision course with a violent criminal syndicate.

Shot on-location in New Orleans, Parish features a prominent ensemble cast of Zachary Momoh as New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster The Horse; SAG® Award-nominee Paula Malcomson as Parish’s wife and mother to his two children, Rose; Skeet Ulrich as an old acquaintance to Gray, Colin; Bonnie Mbuili as Shamiso Tongai, The Horse’s...

Giancarlo Esposito leads the cast of AMC and AMC+’s new crime thriller, Parish, based on the UK’s The Driver. AMC just dropped an early first trailer for the drama, which won’t actually premiere until 2024.

Joining Giancarlo Esposito in the six-episode action series are Zachary Momoh (The Nevers), Skeet Ulrich (Riverdale), Emmy winner Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), and Paula Malcomson (Watchmen). Bonnie Mbuili (Invictus), Ivan Mbakop (Hawkeye), Arica Himmel (Mixed-ish), and Dax Rey (The Good Fight) also star.

SAG nominee Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale) guest stars.

The Driver‘s co-creators Danny Brocklehurst and Jim Poyser executive produce, with executive producers Eduardo Canto and Ryan Maldonado serving as showrunners. Additional executive producers include Giancarlo Esposito, Jolyon Symonds, David Morrissey, Josh Kesselman, Danny Sherman, Barry Jossen, Tana Jamieson, Theo Travers, and Nicola Shindler.

Giancarlo Esposito as Gray Bourgeois and Skeet Ulrich as Colin Broussard in ‘Parish’ (Photo Credit:...

Giancarlo Esposito, of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fame, will return to AMC in 2024.

On Monday, the cabler unveiled a first-look teaser trailer and photos of the highly-anticipated drama series Parish. 

The six-episode series stars and is executive produced by Emmy® and SAG® Award-nominee and Critics Choice® Award-winner Esposito.

Esposito stars as Gracian "Gray" Parish, a family man and proud owner of a luxury car service in New Orleans.

After his son is violently murdered and his business collapses, an encounter with an old friend from his days as a wheelman resurfaces old habits, sending Gray on a high-stakes collision course with a violent criminal syndicate.

The drama series was shot in New Orleans and features an all-star cast.

Zachary Momoh plays New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster The Horse, while Award-nominee Paula Malcomson is set to play Parish's wife and mother to his two children, Rose.

Skeet Ulrich is on...

Exclusive: Ian McKellen (The Good Liar), Gemma Arterton (Summerland) and Mark Strong (1917) will lead the cast of The Critic, a period thriller based on Anthony Quinn’s classic novel Curtain Call. Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), BAFTA nominee Romola Garai (Suffragette), Ben Barnes (Westworld) and Alfred Enoch (Foundation) will also star.

In the film set in 1934 London, McKellen plays Jimmy Erskine, the most feared drama critic in town—with Arterton as Nina Land, the actress determined to win his favor. When Jimmy finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper’s new owner, David Brooke (Strong), Nina becomes entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, deceit and murder.

Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) is directing from a script by Oscar nominee Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal), with production underway in and around London. The film is being fully financed and produced by London-based BKStudios, with owner Bill Kenwright...

“Curtain Call,” starring starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale, has sold to several major territories.

To be directed by “Shopgirl” filmmaker Anand Tucker, the film will commence production later this year in the U.K.

Culmination Productions has sold to Squareone Entertainment (German-speaking Europe), Notorious Pictures (Italy), California Filmes (Latin America), Cineart (Benelux), Tanweer (Greece), Lusomundo (Portugal), Sena (Iceland), Hagi Films (Poland), Shoval Film (Israel), Selim Ramia & Co (The Middle East), Empire (South Africa), Benchmark Films (Taiwan) and to Spain, where a distributor is yet to be announced.

Adapted by Oscar-nominee Patrick Marber (“Notes on a Scandal”) from Anthony Quinn’s novel of the same name, “Curtain Call” revolves around Jimmy Erskine (Beale), the most feared theatre critic of the age, his loyal and long-suffering assistant Tom Turner (Essiedu), David Brooke (Firth), the new owner of the newspaper who wants to be rid of Jimmy,...

Anand Tucker’s (Hilary & Jackie) period-drama Curtain Call, which is due to star Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale, has been pre-sold by Culmination Productions to a host of key territories ahead of shoot later this year in the UK.

In addition to the previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International Productions for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the film has been sold to Squareone Entertainment (German Speaking Europe), Notorious Pictures (Italy), California Filmes (Latin America), Cineart (Benelux), Tanweer (Greece) and Lusomundo (Portugal).

Deals were also inked with Sena (Iceland), Hagi Films (Poland), Shoval Film (Israel), Selim Ramia & Co (The Middle East), Empire (South Africa) and Benchmark Films (Taiwan).

The film revolves around Jimmy Erskine (Beale), the most feared theatre critic of the age, his loyal and long-suffering assistant Tom Turner (Essiedu), David Brooke (Firth), the new owner of the newspaper who wants to be rid of Jimmy,...

Sony Pictures International Productions on board as co-producer.

Culmination Productions has licensed major territories ahead of an anticipated start of production in the UK later this year on Anand Tucker’s EFM sales title Curtain Call starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu, and Simon Russell Beale.

Following previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International Productions for the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, the film has gone to Square One Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, Notorious Pictures for Italy, and California Filmes for Latin America.

In other deals, Selim Ramia & Co. has acquired rights for The Middle East, Cineart for Benelux,...

Sony Pictures International Productions on board as co-producer.

Culmination Productions has licensed major territories ahead of an anticipated start of production in the UK later this year on Anand Tucker’s EFM sales title Curtain Call starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu, and Simon Russell Beale.

Following previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International Productions for the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, the film has gone to Square One Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, Notorious Pictures for Italy, and California Filmes for Latin America.

In other deals, Selim Ramia & Co. has acquired rights for The Middle East, Cineart for Benelux,...

Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Simon Russell Beale and Pappa Essiedu are attached to star in the period drama “Curtain Call” with Anand Tucker directing for Mark Gordon Pictures and Fearless Minds.

The film, set in 1930s London, revolves around a feared theater critic named Jimmy Erskine (Beale), his loyal assistant (Essiedu), a newspaper owner (Firth) who wants to get rid of the critic and an actress (Arterton) who has been devastated by the excoriating theatrical reviews. The critic’s determination to survive ensures that the other characters are caught in a web of blackmail, deceit and murder. Patrick Marber adapted the script from Anthony Quinn’s novel.

“Patrick’s script is one of the sharpest and most entertaining I have ever read,” Tucker said. “It’s no surprise it has attracted such an extraordinary cast, and I can’t wait to bring this urgent story to audiences around the world.

AMC’s episodic anthology series “Soulmates” takes place 15 years into the future, following the discovery of a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is. And that test, created by fictional company Soul Connex, would actually work, according to series co-creator Brett Goldstein.

“We did all the science of this,” the “Ted Lasso” star, who created the six-episode show with “Black Mirror” alum Will Bridges, told TheWrap. “There is a professor in London, and this was a few years ago, who is a leading professor of quantum physics and we had an idea, where it sounds really complicated, but we spent the day with him and I pitched him this idea and he said, ‘Yeah, that would work.'”

Ok, so what’s the idea?

“The idea is that, much like there was this discovery and they called it the ‘God Particle,’ that scientists find a particle in the eye,...

AMC released the first trailer for its episodic anthology series “Soulmates” on Tuesday.

The six-episode series takes place 15 years into the future, following the discovery of a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is. Each episode features a different cast and explores an entirely new story around “discovering (or opting not to discover) the results of this new test and the impact of those results on a myriad of relationships,” according to AMC.

The series, which has already been picked up for a second season, premieres Monday, Oct. 5.

The cast includes Sarah Snook (“Succession”), Kingsley Ben-Adir, David Costabile (“Billions”), Sonya Cassidy, Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things”), Malin Akerman, Bill Skarsgård, Betsy Brandt, JJ Feild (“Turn”), Laia Costa (“Victoria”), Shamier Anderson (“Goliath”), Georgina Campbell (“Black Mirror”), and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (“Candyman”), among others.

The series is created by “Black Mirror” alum Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein, based on their short film “For Life.

AMC’s episodic anthology series “Soulmates” doesn’t premiere until October, but if you’re already in love with the show’s concept we have some good news for you: creators Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein already have “four seasons’ worth of ideas” for their show, which examines love in a world where a test can tell you who your perfect match is.

“I don’t know if I’m allowed to say it, but in getting the green light for the show, we sort of presented, I think, four seasons’ worth of ideas,” Goldstein said during the show’s virtual Ctam panel Friday. “And some of that changes as you make the show. But ultimately, we’re so pleased with the world we created with this idea because now we just want to do more of it and get more writers in and get more diverse voices and hear...

AMC has given a second season renewal to its episodic anthology “Soulmates” ahead of its series premiere in October.

“Soulmates” explores the nature of romantic love, coming from AMC Studios and written by Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein. The series is described as taking place 15 years in the future “when science has made a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is.”

The cast includes Malin Akerman (“Billions”) Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things”) Betsy Brandt (“Breaking Bad”), JJ Feild (“Turn”), Sarah Snook (“Succession”), David Costabile (“Breaking Bad”) and Sonya Cassidy (“Lodge 49”).

“We are so delighted to have the opportunity to continue working with the incredible team at AMC to tell more of our romantically unromantic love stories and can’t wait to get back into the world they helped us create,” Bridges and Goldstein said.

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AMC has renewed Soulmates for a second season ahead of the series’ season one debut on October 5.

The series is written by Will Bridges (Stranger Things and Black Mirror) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso). It is produced by Banijay’s Fearless Minds and the series, which is set to air later this year, is based on Bridges and Goldstein’s short film For Life.

From AMC Studios, Soulmates is set fifteen years into the future, when science has made a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is.

“We are so delighted to have the opportunity to continue working with the incredible team at AMC to tell more of our romantically unromantic love stories and can’t wait to get back into the world they helped us create,” said Bridges and Goldstein.

“We were immediately drawn to the...

Strangers Things’ Charlie Heaton, Billions’ Malin Akerman, Breaking Bad’s Betsy Brandt and Turn’s JJ Feild are to star in AMC’s anthology series Soulmates.

The four actors join Succession’s Sarah Snook, Billions’ David Costabile and Lodge 49’s Sonya Cassidy in the six-part series.

The announcement was made at the Winter TCA press tour.

The series, which explores the nature of romantic love and the intersection of science, written by Will Bridges, who has written for Stranger Things and Black Mirror and Brett Goldstein (Superbob). It is produced by Banijay’s Fearless Minds and the series, which is set to air later this year, is based on Bridges and Goldstein’s short film For Life.

Co-created by Bridges and Goldstein, each episode will feature an entirely new story and different cast, a first-time format for AMC. The series takes place 15 years from now, when science makes a...

“Succession” star Sarah Snook will topline the premiere episode of AMC’s untitled episodic anthology series from Brett Goldstein and “Black Mirror” writer Will Bridges.

The series is centered on the intersection of love and science. Per AMC, it takes place 15 years from now, when science makes a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet — a way to find your soul mate. The series uses the sci-fi conceit to tell six provocative stories about the cost of finding true love, all different in tone and featuring a spectrum of people and relationships.

Each episode will feature an entirely new story and different cast, a first-time format for AMC.

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In the Rob Savage-directed premiere episode, Snook plays Nikki, a suburbanite mother tortured by the growing suspicion that her life’s...

AMC announced today that it has greenlit a new, yet-to-be-titled original episodic anthology drama created by Emmy-Award winning writer Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein. Bridges and Goldstein will executive produce with Jolyon Symonds through Fearless Minds, a Banijay Group company. The Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project, produced by AMC Studios, will consist of six, hour-long episodes, and is slated for a 2020 debut on AMC.

Each episode of the Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project will feature an entirely new story and a different cast, a first-time format for AMC. The series takes place 15 years from now when science makes a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a way to find your soul mate. The series uses the sci-fi conceit to tell six provocative stories about the cost of finding true love, all different in tone and featuring a spectrum of people and relationships. Bridges and Goldstein previously created the short film “For Life,...

AMC has given the greenlight to an anthology series from “Black Mirror” writer Will Bridges and actor/comedian Brett Goldstein.

The yet-to-be-titled series is set 15 years in the future, when science makes a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a way to find your soul mate.

Each of the series’ six episodes will feature a new story on the cost of finding true love. Bridges and Goldstein previously created the short film “For Life,” which serves as the basis for the new series.

The project represents AMC’s first foray into non-serialized story-telling.

“The show explores how technological innovation can impact the most delicate matters of the heart, and each episode will turn personal life choices into high-stakes drama. It’s a fresh yet relatable idea, portrayed through wildly entertaining tales with unexpected twists, humor, and meaningful emotion,” said David Madden, president of programming for AMC.

AMC has ordered an episodic anthology series centered on the intersection of love and science from Brett Goldstein and “Black Mirror” writer Will Bridges.

Per AMC, the series takes place 15 years from now, when science makes a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a way to find your soul mate. The series uses the sci-fi conceit to tell six provocative stories about the cost of finding true love, all different in tone and featuring a spectrum of people and relationships. Each episode will feature an entirely new story and different cast, a first-time format for AMC.

Bridges and Goldstein previously created the short film “For Life,” which serves as the basis for this new, original series.

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Bridges and Goldstein will executive produce with Jolyon Symonds through Fearless Minds,...

AMC has ordered six hourlong episodes of an anthology drama series about the intersection of love and science, from Emmy-winning writer Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein, Fearless Minds, a Banijay Group company, and AMC Studios. The Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project, based on the duo’s short film For Life, is slated for a 2020 premiere on AMC.

Co-created by Bridges and Goldstein, each episode will feature an entirely new story and different cast, a first-time format for AMC. The series takes place 15 years from now, when science makes a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a way to find your soulmate. The series uses the sci-fi conceit to tell six provocative stories about the cost of finding true love, all different in tone and featuring a spectrum of people and relationships.

Bridges and Goldstein executive produce with Jolyon Symonds via Fearless Minds.

U.K.’s Fearless Minds is joining forces with Spain’s “Hierro” producer Portocabo and Vaca TV to co-produce high-end historical mini-series project “Garbo, el espía que engañó a Hitler”.

Inspired by the life of the one-off Juan Pujol, alias Garbo, a Spanish double agent who helped change the course of World War II, the six-episode TV drama project is being penned by James Wood, creator of BBC series “Quacks” and “Rev.”

The move marks an early U.K.-Spain TV co-production alliance for TV drama, with international TV giant the Banijay Group also entering as a partner.

“Garbo” was first unveiled as a project in June 2017 at TV drama co-production meeting Conecta Fiction, in Galicia’s Santiago de Compostela, by series executive producers, Portocabo’s Alfonso Blanco and Vaca TV’s Borja Pena.

British producer Jolyon Symonds, who launched Fearless Minds in 2017 as the fruit of a joint venture with Banijay,...

“If we were making Amy, Senna and Maradona today, we would do six-hour versions.”

Amy producer James Gay-Rees is looking to land more multipart series as his Oscar-winning indie On The Corner steps up its push into TV.

Headed by producer Gay-Rees and director Asif Kapadia, On The Corner secured its first TV commission last year, for BBC1 doc series Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation – an exploration of the racially charged murder of Stephen Lawrence. The three-part series launches on 16 April.

Gay-Rees told (Screen’s sister publication) Broadcast that the series – which marks the 25th anniversary of the...

David Morrissey, the British actor known for his role as The Walking Dead's Governor, is taking a turn behind the camera as he and three other filmmakers have formed On the Corner, a film and television production company. Morrissey formed the production firm with director Asif Kapadia and producers James Gay-Rees and Jolyon Symonds. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the company is currently working on a follow-up to Kapadia's BAFTA award-winning Senna, and has already signed on for a two-year first look deal with BBC Worldwide. The company is also currently in production on the tentatively titled film Amy,...

The Walking Dead star David Morrissey has partnered with a trio of established TV and film producers to launch his own drama and documentary indie.

The actor – who has also starred in British dramas such as State Of Play and The Driver – has set up On The Corner with Complicit producer Jolyon Symonds, Senna director Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees, who produced Banksy doc Exit Through The Gift Shop.

The company has been established to produce high-end British drama, comedy, feature docs and factual series. It has also struck a development and distribution deal with BBC Worldwide, which will have first look at the indie’s slate.

Morrissey, who is speaking at Broadcast’s Production & Post Forum, said he wanted to have more creative control over the projects in which he stars. He would also like to develop projects in which he doesn’t appear.

“As an actor, I was frustrated when I came in too late...

David Morrisey, the U.K. stage and screen actor who played The Walking Dead's eyepatch-wearing villain The Governor, has joined forces with BAFTA-winning Senna director Asif Kapadia and BAFTA-winning producers James Gay-Rees and Jolyon Symonds to create a new film and TV production house. They announced Thursday that the new indie, dubbed On the Corner, will develop scripted and non-scripted content and has already inked a two-year first-look deal with BBC Worldwide. It also has development deals on a six-part series with Tim Firth (Calendar Girls) and a one-off written by

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The Driver, about an ordinary man who makes a terrible decision, is a three-part thriller from BAFTA Award-winning screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst (Shameless UK). The Walking Dead‘s David Morrissey will play taxi driver Vince McKee, who blames himself for a family mystery and accepts an offer to start driving for a criminal gang. But, says the BBC, it’s ultimately a redemptive story about getting a second chance under incredible circumstances. Jim Poyser co-created the drama which is co-produced by Morrissey’s Highfield Pictures and Red Production Company for BBC One. Jamie Payne (Doctor Who, The White Queen, The Hour) is director. Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Shaun Dingwall, Claudie Blakeley, Sacha Parkinson and Lee Ross also star. Morrissey, who is also toplining AMC pilot Line Of Sight, is executive producing The Driver for Highfield with Nicola Shindler for Red and Polly Hill for BBC One. Producer is Jolyon Symonds (Breathless...

ITV’s ‘Breathless’ Rounds Out Cast Six-part ITV drama Breathless has added cast to join the previously announced Jack Davenport-starrer. Natasha Little (Vanity Fair), Oliver Chris (One Man Two Guvnors), Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey, Sons Of Anarchy), Joanna Page (Gavin & Stacey), Shaun Dingwall (Above Suspicion) Catherine Steadman (The Tudors, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen), Sarah Parish (Hatfields & McCoys), Pippa Haywood (Mr Selfridge) and Iain Glen (Game Of Thrones) have all boarded the ITV Studios drama about a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital in the 60s. Shooting is underway this month on Breathless which is produced by Jolyon Symonds with Kate Bartlett and director Paul Unwin exec producing. K5 Adds Rodolphe Sanze To Sales, Ups Sara Boss K5 International is expanding its sales team to handle its full Cannes slate. Rodolphe Sanze has joined the company, reporting to Partner, Sales and Marketing, Carl Clifton, and...

Set in 1961 London, Breathless is a six-part drama created by Paul Unwin whose credits include British series Casualty and Combat Hospital. ITV has just commissioned the ITV Studios production that follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses in a gynecology ward at a period when Britain was on the brink of the 60s revolution. Smash‘s Jack Davenport stars as Otto Powell, a brilliant and charismatic surgeon who believes he can make a difference to women’s lives. Otto and his elegant wife preside over an ensemble of characters with more cast announcements to come. Unwin will direct the first two episodes. His co-creator is Peter Grimsdale who will also script with Simon Tyrell. Breathless is produced by Jolyon Symonds; ITV Studios’ Kate Bartlett will executive produce with Unwin. Shooting starts in April. ITV Studios Global Entertainment is handling internationally.

London -- "Grey's Anatomy" star Sandra Oh will head the cast in Sky 1's fall police thriller "thorne: scaredy cat," alongside David Morrissey, Eddie Marsan and Aidan Gillen. The project will premiere on Sky and then seek international theatrical release.

Oh will play Detective Sergeant Sandra Chen, part of a London cop squad investigating a grisly series of murders that take place around London's St Pancras station.

The three-part drama is a sequel to "thorne: sleepyhead," which also starred Natascha McElhone. Both will premiere on Sky 1 HD in the fall and will then be released as two separate movies, to be distributed by ContentFilm.

Based on the award-winning crime novels of Mark Billingham, the series sees Morrissey play Detective Inspector Tom Thorne.

Both films are produced by Jolyon Symonds for Stagereel, the indie producer he jointly set up with Paul and Morrissey. It is a co-production with Canadian producer Cite-Amerique.

Hanif Kureishi has signed on to write the screen adaptation of "The White Tiger," which Smuggler Films is producing in association with Ascension Entertainment.

A winner of the Man Booker Prize in Britain, Aravind Adiga's novel looks at India's economic rise to power through the eyes of a young man from a poor, rural village.

Kureishi's credits range from "My Beautiful Laundrette" to "Venus," and his play "The Black Album" is playing at the National Theatre in London.

Smuggler's Patrick Milling Smith and John N. Hart will produce "Tiger" alongside Ascension's Jolyon Symonds. It is being financed by a new media fund assembled by Smuggler with the support of the U.K. Film Council Development Fund.

• With the world embracing Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, it's perhaps become "safe" to embrace future narratives that display a side of India without the feel good dance number finale. Comparisons between the Oscar best Picture winner and everything that comes after it is inevitable - but My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid scribe Hanif Kureishi's take on Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger should be a dark one that has extreme poverty and outlandish wealth of India in clear view. The novel is told by the Pov of Balram Halwai - the smartest boy in his village, a community deep in the "Darkness" of rural India. Balram is the son of a rickshaw-puller; his family is too poor for him to be able to finish school, and instead he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. Through these experiences,

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John Hart's newly formed Smuggler Films has signed on its first project, acquiring rights to the India-themed Man Booker Prize winner "The White Tiger."

Aravind Adiga wrote the novel, which like Oscar heavyweight "Slumdog Millionaire" centers on class tensions in contemporary India.

The book, which took Britain's top literary prize last year, tells the story of Balram Halwai, a rough-around-the-edges, politically incorrect rickshaw driver who struggles to escape his lower caste and poor upbringing by taking a driving job for a wealthy boss -- and winds up committing a murder.

Critics have noted that the book purposefully paints an unglamorous portrait of a changing India.

Producers said this project offers a decidedly darker message than Danny Boyle's best picture winner. "While 'Slumdog' paints a romantic portrait of the rising India, in which anyone can be a millionaire, 'The White Tiger' suggests that to succeed, murder may be the only option,...