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Jake Kanter

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Jake joined Deadline in 2019 from Business Insider, where he was the UK Executive Editor, overseeing a 60-strong London bureau and serving tens of millions of readers every month. He also wrote about media and tech, breaking scoops on companies including Facebook, Amazon and the BBC. Prior to his time at Business Insider, he spent six years at Broadcast, where he rose from reporter to news editor and launched the popular Talking TV podcast. Jake is also chair of the Broadcasting Press Guild, a 45-year-old association of the UK's top media journalists.

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Claire Foy & Paul Bettany To Headline Second Season Of ‘A Very English Scandal’ For BBC/Amazon

The BBC and Amazon have signed up The Crown’s Claire Foy and WandaVision star Paul Bettany to headline the long-awaited second season of A Very English Scandal. Deadline revealed last March that Sarah Phelps, the British scribe behind Agatha Christie adaptations including The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, had signed…

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Prince William Says “We Are Very Much Not A Racist Family” After Prince Harry & Meghan Markle’s Oprah Interview

Prince William, the future King of England, has responded for the first time to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s brutally frank interview with Oprah Winfrey on CBS. On a visit to a school in London, Prince William turned to cameras and said: “We are very much not a racist family.” He also revealed that he has not…

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‘Homeland’s Patrick Harbinson To Adapt Kate London’s Met Police Novel ‘Post Mortem’ For ITV

EXCLUSIVE: Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson is to adapt Kate London's Metropolitan Police novel Post Mortem into a three-part ITV series, which will be housed at Harbinson’s new UK-based production firm and Mammoth Screen. The drama will be titled The Tower, in a nod to the novel’s thrilling…

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Former Disney Executive Tom Toumazis To Chair Animation Studio Snipple Group

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Toumazis, a former Disney and Endemol Shine executive, is to become the non-executive chair of Snipple Group, the Philippines-based animation studio that has worked on series including Where's Waldo? and Dora And Friends: Into the City!. Toumazis’ appointment follows Deadline revealing in January that…

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Piers Morgan: What Happened & What’s Next For ‘Good Morning Britain’s Anti-Woke Warrior

Britain’s breakfast foghorn Piers Morgan is out of a job. It all happened in a matter of hours, as the former CNN presenter bent a global news story about Meghan Markle firmly in his direction with incendiary comments about the Duchess of Sussex’s mental health. We’ve spoken to sources familiar with the breakneck…

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ITV Drops First Look At ‘The Ipcress File’; BBC Studios Inhales BBC Kids Production; Fox Nation Boards ‘A Year On Planet Earth’ — Global Briefs

ITV Drops First Look At ‘The Ipcress File’ ITV has offered the first look at The Ipcress File, its adaptation of Len Deighton's spy novel, which inspired the 1965 Michael Caine film of the same name. Penned by BAFTA-winning Trainspotting writer John Hodge, the cast is led by Gangs Of London and Peaky Blinders star Joe…

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Meghan Markle Reportedly Complained To ITV Over Piers Morgan’s ‘Good Morning Britain’ Comments

Meghan Markle’s representatives have reportedly filed a complaint to ITV on behalf of the Duchess Of Sussex following Piers Morgan’s remarks about her mental health. The Guardian said a “formal complaint” was lodged with the UK broadcaster after Morgan said on Good Morning Britain that he did not believe Markle when…

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Piers Morgan’s Final ‘Good Morning Britain’ Watched By 1.3M Viewers, Beating ‘BBC Breakfast’ For The First Time

Piers Morgan’s final outing on Good Morning Britain before his sensational resignation was watched by 1.29 million viewers in the UK on Tuesday. It could be a record for the ITV show and meant it beat rival, BBC Breakfast, for the first time since its launch in April 2014. Breakfast was seen by 1.25M, according to…

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‘The Bridge’ & ‘Marcella’ Creator Hans Rosenfeldt Adapting CJ Tudor’s ‘The Burning Girls’ For Buccaneer Media

EXCLUSIVE: Hans Rosenfeldt, the formidable Swedish screenwriter behind The Bridge and Marcella, has found his next project: Adapting CJ Tudor’s new bestselling novel The Burning Girls into a TV series. Rosenfeldt will work with Marcella producer Buccaneer Media to adapt the book after the production company secured…

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Piers Morgan Stands By Meghan Markle Remarks & Says He’s Leaving ‘Good Morning Britain’ To “Spend More Time With My Opinions”

Piers Morgan has broken his hours-long silence after sensationally quitting Good Morning Britain on Tuesday — and the upshot is this: He’s not backing down. In a Tweet on Wednesday morning UK time, Morgan said: “On Monday, I said I didn't believe Meghan Markle in her Oprah interview. I've had time to reflect on this…

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Piers Morgan’s ‘Good Morning Britain’ Co-Host Susanna Reid: “Shows Go On & So On We Go”

Good Morning Britain anchor Susanna Reid has addressed the abrupt departure of her co-host, Piers Morgan, right at the top of the show on Wednesday morning. After Morgan dramatically quit on Tuesday following comments he made about Meghan Markle’s mental health, Reid looked down the barrel of the camera and said: “A…

Piers Morgan Quits ‘Good Morning Britain’ After Meghan Markle Suicide Comments — Update

Piers Morgan has sensationally quit Good Morning Britain, the ITV breakfast show he has helped revitalize, after the former CNN anchor said he did not believe Meghan Markle’s mental health issues led to her contemplating suicide. In a statement on Tuesday evening UK time, ITV announced: “Following discussions with…

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