Sky Studios
London’s Garden Studios Hires Sky Studios Top Exec Bee Devine as COO
Garden Studios in London, which opened its doors in early 2021, has hired Sky Studios top executive Bee Devine as chief operating officer. She will start the role in June and report to Garden Studios founder and CEO Thomas Hoegh. Devine has worked as director of content operations at Sky Studios, the production arm of European […]
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‘Mary & George’ Bosses on the Mother-Son Duo That Infiltrated King James’ Royal Court
[This story contains spoilers from the series premiere of Mary & George.] In 2018, while flicking through the LGBTQ+ section of a copy of Time Out magazine, television producer Liza Marshall found a listing for a lecture about the sexuality of James VI and I, who reigned as the king of Scotland from 1567 to […]
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U.K. Studios Get Tax Relief, Indie Film Tax Credit Set, New ‘Jurassic World’ Movie to Shoot This Year
The U.K. government of Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak unveiled a 40 percent corporate tax relief for film and TV studio facilities until 2034 on Wednesday, introduced a new independent film incentive of 40 percent and announced an increase to an existing incentive for visual effects. The moves earned praise from entertainment industry leaders who […]
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Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Richard Dormer Join Eddie Redmayne in ‘The Day of the Jackal’ Series
Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch will be joined by Úrsula Corberó, known for her role as Tokyo in Netflix hit Money Heist, Charles Dance (Game of Thrones, The Crown) and Richard Dormer (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) in the upcoming TV adaptation of The Day of the Jackal for Sky and Peacock. Corberó will play Nuria, “someone at […]
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‘White Lotus’ Actor Will Sharpe to Play Mozart in ‘Amadeus’ Drama for Sky
White Lotus actor Will Sharpe is set to play the role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the musical genius, in Amadeus, a Sky Original limited series. The drama will reunite the team behind the crime series Giri/Haji, with Joe Barton writing the screenplay for Amadeus and Julian Farino directing. The series, to shoot later this year, […]
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Sky Studios CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz Adds Chief Content Officer TitleÂ
Comcast-owned European media and telecommunications giant Sky is bringing all of its non-sports content teams in the U.K. and Ireland under one leadership structure, led by Cécile Frot-Coutaz. Currently CEO of Sky Studios, she will add the chief content officer title, expanding her role to lead all parts of Sky’s content business in the U.K. […]
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Starz Nabs Julianne Moore’s ‘Mary & George’ for North America
Starz has picked up the U.S. and Canada rights to Mary & George, an historical psychodrama starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine and created and penned by Killing Eve writer D.C. Moore. The Sky Studios seven-parter has Moore playing Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham, who in 17th century England and alongside her son, George Villiers, […]
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Sky Studios CEO on AI “as a Real Opportunity,” Dual Strikes Impact and a “Particularly Difficult” Year
Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of Sky Studios, the scripted production arm of Comcast’s European giant Sky, has been busy. The French industry leader has continued to expand her purview since taking over management of Sky Studios (Gangs of London, The Lazarus Project) in September 2021. In February, former CBS News president David Rhodes was named executive […]
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Christina Hendricks, Paddy Considine to Star in Chris O’Dowd Sky Series About Hollywood Production in Irish Village
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon) will star in Small Town, Big Story, a new Sky original series created and directed by Chris O’Dowd (Moone Boy). The six-part show focuses on an Irish village that gets taken over by a Hollywood production that throws the spotlight on an old secret. […]
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Berlin: Germany’s Sky Orders Two New Original Series
Leading German pay-TV network Sky Deutschland, part of Comcast-owned European TV giant Sky, is doubling down on its local-language originals slate, giving straight-to-series orders for two new high-end TV series. Tobias Rosen, vp Sky Studios Deutschland, the channel’s production arm, presented the projects at Up Next, a showcase of new Sky original content during the […]
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‘Django’ World Premiere in Rome Marks Return of an Italian Western LegendÂ
Django is back. The coffin-dragging, quick-draw gunslinger character introduced in Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 Spaghetti Western classic, which inspired dozens of sequels, spinoffs and tributes, most famously Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, has finally arrived on the small screen. Sky and Canal+’s 10-episode Django, which has its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Sunday, Oct. […]
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Tobias Rosen to Head Scripted Slate at Sky Studios Deutschland
Former Warner Bros. Television Deutschland executive Tobias Rosen has been appointed a new vp at Sky Studios Deutschland, the German production arm of Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky, tasked with overseeing the company’s growing slate of German-language originals. At WB, Rosen developed and produced series such as Love Addicts for Amazon Prime. Before joining […]
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