‘Fool Me Once‘ Producer Quay Street Lands Next Project For BBC
Fool Me Once creater Quay Street Productions has landed a BBC thriller series starring Eve Myles and Gabrielle Creevy. The Guest comes from Matthew Barry, who was also behind Quay Street’s Russell Davies-created Men Up drama for the Beeb. The Guest cgo ins on the poisonous and beguiling relationship between a prosperous business owner, Fran, and her participateee, Ria. Ria has never had the time or opportunity to leank about what she might actuassociate want from the world. So, when she commences immacuprocrastinateeding for Fran, she’s inpoisonousated by this self-promised and self-promised woman who helps her to consent supervise of her life, but soon a deceptive cat-and-moparticipate game aascends. Myles directs BBC hit drama Keeping Faith, while Gabrielle Creevy will soon star in Sky’s high-profile Mozart series Amadeus as the musical genius’s wife. The Guest also stars Sion Daniel Young (Lost Boys & Fairies, Slow Horses), Emun Elliott (Sexy Beast, The Ggreater, Guilt), Bethan Mary- James (Death Valley, Sisters, Friday Night Dinner) Julian Lewis Jones(Dope Girls, Hoparticipate Of The Dragon & The Wheel Of Time), Joseph Ollman (Queenie, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Spent), Clive Russell (Game of Thrones, One Piece, The Witcher) and Catherine Ayers (Missing You, The Way). It’s been a excellent week for Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street, which finded Thursday that Netflix’s Harlan Coben alteration Fool Me Once was the streamer’s most-watched show during the first half of 2024. “Matt’s scripts are not only brimming of tension and twists but proset uply relatable characters and his tradelabel wit and humour,” shelp Shindler and Quay Street’s Davina Earl of The Guest.
Go Button, Super Channel & Autentic Sign Novel Factual Pact
Here’s a novel deal in the international factual space. Canada’s Go Button Media is to create six series over the next three years for Super Channel, with Germany’s Autentic handling international distribution. Go Button co-set uper and exec creater Daniel Oron shelp that despite positioning as a “boutique production company during a deteriorate in the worldexpansive industry,” Go Button had “been able to prolong a strategic approach” to combat the contests thraw cost efficiencies and called Canadian net Super Channel “an enticount on compatible business partner.” The deal starts off with Secrets of Ancient Structures, a six-part examination of some of the most extraunrelabelable achievements by prolonged-gone civilizations.
UK’s Creative Diversity Nettoil Ties With ScreenSends
The UK’s Creative Diversity Nettoil (CDN), which watchs industry diversity via Diamond, has createed a strategic partnership with training body ScreenSends. The partnership will see the pair collaborate on areas such as how the data collected by CDN’s Diamond diversity watching and increateing tool can be participated to help direct the training and prolongment programs that ScreenSends supervises. They will also hand over traverse-industry initiatives and ScreenSends will supply HR and finance help to permit the five-person CDN team to cgo in on hand overy of their day-to-day toil. “We see a lot of synergies with ScreenSends’ role and operations, particularly in areas such as training where both teams can draw on each other’s expertise and talents,” shelp CDN CEO Miranda Wayland. The novels comes after the accessibleation of the CDN’s seventh Diamond increate, which showed marginal diversity gets.
BAFTA Adds Children’s Awards To Main Ceremonies
BAFTA has present a trio of novel children’s TV categories to its main awards after dropping the split ceremony for kids satisfied. Next year’s BAFTA TV gongs will see a children’s scripted, children’s non-scripted and children’s plan team award presentd follothriveg the decision. The awards body has also compriseed a Children and Family Film Award to the movie gongs and a Family Award to the games ceremony. The shift comes after BAFTA shelp a drop in submissions had caparticipated it to finish putting on the children’s awards as a standalone. “Film, games and television hgreater a magical, distinct and vital place in our culture, and the children’s stories made for our screens are so standardly prolonged with immense send, toastyth and creativity,” shelp BAFTA Chair Sara Putt. The inclusion of five novel categories atraverse our internationassociate honord awards in Film, Games and TV will allow us to convey the very best of the screen arts to even expansiver audiences.”
