Protests raged outdoors the BBC’s New Broadcasting House yesterday over the controversial Narendra Modi documentary that Indian free speech activists try to have reinstated on social media. Massive crowds from Britain’s Indian diaspora group gathered outdoors the BBC HQ in London on Sunday, who had been angered by the portrayal …

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on the key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with James and Soleta Rogan, the founders of prolific UK documentary indie Rogan Productions, with past credits including Black Power, …

‘’ Moves From BBC To Channel 4 Fred Sirieix-hosted Remarkable Places to Eat has moved from the BBC to Channel 4. In a move that has become more commonplace in recent years, Channel 4 has commissioned the third season of Outline Productions’ format, which has been partly funded by Italian …

EXCLUSIVE: Creatives from Jax Media and NBCUniversal International Studios have talked up “subverting traditional narratives” by bringing “heart and warmth” to upcoming Channel 4 religious comedy Everyone Else Burns. The Simon Bird-starrer is the first to hail from Jax’s UK office, headed up by former Baby Cow exec Molly Seymour, …

Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here relaying a hugely busy week in the world of film and TV as the post-Christmas blues are very much washed away. Read on. French Focus Eric Fougere/Corbis via Getty Image Rendez-Vous: Mel Goodfellow here reporting from the 25th edition of French film and TV …

The BBC is “not proactively putting a date on a digital switchover or anything stupid like that,” Director General Tim Davie has said, but rather sparking a “broader conversation across the UK for when we do move across.” Davie rowed back on the notion that linear TV channels will be …

Shahid Launches ‘Period Market’ Landmark With Global Cast Middle Eastern streamer Shahid has launched Period Market, a landmark period drama featuring a global cast from across EMEA, filmed in more than 100 locations .The show, which comes from Kuwaiti writer Heba Mashari Hamada and Tunisian director Lassaad Oueslat, tells five …

Lime Pictures Head of Unscripted Sarah Tyekiff is exiting as the Only Way is Essex indie forges a new popular factual division with All3Media stablemates Lion Television and Wise Owl Films. A Chief Creative Officer, Unscripted, will be hired to head up the division imminently. After five years overseeing the …

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has mined the 1960s and 1970s for its award-winning A Very English Scandal strand but, for the next one, viewers could be treated to a modern-day saga they are slightly more familiar with. Deadline can reveal that a retelling of the Wagatha Christie drama is in early …

The wait is over. Prince Harry’s memoir Spare hits bookshelves today (barring Spain where it was accidentally published late last week) and the public is braced for revelations galore, with some reported to be queueing outside bookshops from its midnight release. But Harry hasn’t exactly kept himself out of the …

Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon has praised the “good and wise” UK Tradition Secretary for main the cost in opposition to privatization and revealed plans to permit the community to supply reveals in-house are the brainchild of the federal government. Chatting with Deadline just hours after Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives confirmed …

The UK authorities has confirmed that Channel 4 is not going to be bought. The choice represents a dramatic u-turn from Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives, who had beforehand been pushing for privatization in opposition to the recommendation of 96% of respondents to a authorities session on the matter when Nadine Dorries …