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Catherine McCormack Joins Colin Firth in Peacock, Sky Limited Series ‘Lockerbie’
Catherine McCormack (Slow Horses, Temple) has joined Sky and Peacock original limited series Lockerbie to star opposite Colin Firth. McCormack will play the role of Jane Swire, wife of Dr. Jim Swire who will be played by Academy Award- and BAFTA-winning star Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man, The Staircase). The couple lost daughter Flora […]
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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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Sky Content Chief Touts Collaboration With NBCUniversal, “Increased” Global Demand for Larger Shows
Sky U.K., part of Comcast-owned European media and technology giant Sky, touted its programming slate for the year at its annual “Up Next” event at Protein Studios in Shoreditch, London on Thursday evening, with Cécile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of Sky Studios and chief content officer, lauding a “fantastic lineup for 2024.” Sky has continued to double down […]
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Harvey Keitel Relives Nazi Death Camp Survival in ‘Tattooist of Auschwitz’ Trailer
Harvey Keitel plays an Auschwitz survivor who recalls the demons of his past and falling in love in a hellish Nazi death camp in the trailer for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the Peacock and Sky limited series that unveiled a trailer on Thursday. The six-parter sees Keitel playing an elderly Lali Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew […]
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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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Spice Girl Mel B to Narrate Animated Sky Kids Show ‘Happy Town’
Mel B, one of the Spice Girls and a former host on America’s Got Talent, will narrate her first TV series. Sky Kids said Tuesday that the Scary Spice will be the narrator of a new animated children’s series called Happy Town. “Narrated by Mel B, Happy Town follows the problem-solving adventures of an adorable hedgehog and […]
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African Streamer Showmax’s CEO on Doubling Down on Originals, How Africa Surprises Hollywood Folks
African streamer Showmax relaunched on Monday with a focus on an expanded content lineup, including local originals, Hollywood hits and English soccer, attractive pricing and plans to “change the game” in streaming on the continent. Its success so far caught the eye of people in London, Philadelphia and Hollywood, so that in early 2023 its […]
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How Showmax Plans to “Change the Game for Streaming in Africa,” Turbo-Charged by NBCU
Eight and a half years after its launch, African streaming service Showmax is ready for a bigger spotlight on the continent thanks to a relaunch powered by a joint venture with Comcast and NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming platform, new pricing, mobile-only offers, as well as an expanded content lineup, including popular sports and more originals to […]
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Sky Studios CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz Adds Chief Content Officer Title
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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Colin Firth to Star in Peacock, Sky Limited Series ‘Lockerbie’
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man, The Staircase) will star in the upcoming original limited event series Lockerbie about the December 1988 terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 for Comcast’s Peacock and Sky. In the attack, a Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb 38 minutes after take-off while flying over the Scottish […]
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Matt Smith to Star in, Produce Nick Cave Adaptation ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’
House of the Dragon and The Crown actor Matt Smith has signed on to star in and executive produce The Death of Bunny Munro, a limited series adaptation of Nick Cave’s darkly comic novel of the same name. The six-part series, written by Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and to be directed by Isabella Eklöf (Industry, […]
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Sky Calls on U.K. Government to Help Boost Its Economic Contribution by $12.4B
The British media and entertainment sector could be worth £53.0 billion ($65.5 billion) by 2033, up from £43.0 billion ($53.1 billion) in 2021, potentially bringing an additional £10 billion ($12.4 billion) to the U.K. economy, Comcast-owned European media and technology giant Sky said on Wednesday, unveiling a new report that also urged political leaders in […]
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