Max joined Deadline in 2021 and covers the European TV industry, particularly the UK. He spent the previous four years at UK TV trade Broadcast, rising from reporter to chief reporter and focusing on public service broadcasting, the BBC and BBC Studios. He also reported on the British TV sector's diversity push and efforts to end bullying and harassment. He has regularly appeared in the national media on a variety of TV topics and has freelanced for a number of UK trade mags along with global free speech publication Index on Censorship.
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a buzzy one headed to MIPCOM.
With the Cannes confab less than a fortnight away, we can reveal My Dear Mother, an Estonia-Ukraine collab series about a young woman whose troubled past is brought to light when her mother is found brutally murdered on a beach.
Directed by Doris…
‘Downton Abbey’ Star Leading Channel 5 Drama ‘The Puzzle Lady’Downton Abbey star Phyllis Logan is leading a pan-global Channel 5 drama based on Parnell Hall’s Puzzle Lady mysteries. The Puzzle Lady [working title] will see the BAFTA-nominee play Cora Felton, who takes on the eponymous moniker. When…
EXCLUSIVE: In the immediate aftermath of October 7, Oscar-nominee Dror Moreh and producer Uri Shinar started working on a documentary that would show how everyday Israelis were transformed into “a collage of heroes” in the space of just a few hours.
On the anniversary of that fateful day, Deadline…
EXCLUSIVE: Game of Thrones alums Kristofer Hivju and Harry Lloyd have boarded Iris, the Sky thriller from Luther creator Neil Cross.
Hivju will play Jensen Lind, a tortured genius and brilliant scientist, while Lloyd is Hugo Pym, an immaculately composed mystery man who takes on a senior position…
EXCLUSIVE: WME and MVE have co-signed Uma Jammeh, the Love IslandUK star.
The pair are calling the signing a “360 management and agent partnership” that “marks an exciting new chapter for Uma” and the two Endeavor-backed agencies.
Jammeh appeared on Season 11 of dating series Love Island in the…
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is re-shuffling its kids content teams as part of plans to boost brands and better serve young audiences.
Under changes announced internally on Wednesday, the BBC is moving children’s news show Newsround to its news division and beefing up pre-school brand Cbeebies, which is home…
Disney+’s Rivals is nearly here.
The Jilly Cooper adaptation’s launch is less than a month away and full-length trail has been unveiled.
Trailer starts in 1986 introducing its cast of characters. The series chronicles the cutthroat world of independent television and the long-standing rivalry of…
Charles Dance is to star as Michelangelo in a BBC-PBS docu-drama about the renaissance.
Dance is leading Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, examining how some of the greatest works of art in the Western world were born out of an era of violence, power politics and rivalry.
The BBC said the…
‘Sex Education’ Star Asa Butterfield Lands First Theater RoleSex Education star Asa Butterfield has landed his first stage role with a project about the actor who came second to playing Harry Potter in the movie franchise. The limited four week-run at London’s Riverside Studios will see Butterfield…
Phillip Schofield has landed his first role since dramatically exiting This Morning last year over an inappropriate relationship with a colleague.
Phillip Schofield Cast Away for Channel 5 will see the former ITV host spend 10 days and nine nights on a remote, unpopulated island off the coast of…
LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s The SpringHill Company is partnering with France’s Mediawan, the owner of Brad Pitt’s Plan B.
SpringHill Company and Mediawan will develop and co-produce original film and TV projects, adapt existing IP and explore new international distribution opportunities…