Jesse joined Deadline in 2022 from UK TV trade Broadcast, where he had most recently been Insight Editor, overseeing features and long-form reporting. He worked across editing and commissioning and wrote news, features and long-read articles for Broadcast’s monthly magazine and website. A veteran entertainment industry journalist, he has also worked at Television Business International, where he was Editor, and at C21. He is based in London.
Julian Assange has landed back in his native Australia after entering a guilty plea at a U.S. District Court in the Northern Mariana Islands.
The Wikileaks founder pleaded guilty to one count of illegally disseminating national security material in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department, in exchange…
Canada’s Sphere Media has acquired Abacus Media Rights, the UK-based distributor that sells Leaving Neverland and Scrublands.
Sphere is partnering with Canadian broadcaster Bell Media on the deal with current owner Amcomri Entertainment. Bell owns a sizeable stake in Sort Of producer Sphere following…
Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and stars Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-joon will head to Italy for this year’s Lucca Comics & Games festival.
The trio will meet fans and to news about the highly anticipated second season of the Korean survival thriller on October 31 in the striking Tuscan city of Lucca…
‘Peppa Pig’ Writer Part Of Kartoon’s ‘Winnie-The-Pooh’ Team
Just days after unveiling a $30M, multi-year Winnie-the-Pooh plan, Kartoon Studios has unveiled its writing, directing and commercial team. Sam Morrison, who was part of the writing team for Nickelodeon’s Peppa Pig, has been named Head…
When Comcast-owned Sky Deutschland cancelled its usual drama event at the Munich Film Festival at short notice last summer, it came as a surprise. That surprise quickly turned to shock and bitter disappointment when the pay-TV giant revealed it wasn't simply nixing a networking bash, it was exiting the…
The wait for news is over… Babylon Berlin is officially coming back for a fifth and final season.
The hit period drama’s future has been a topic of discussion since Sky Deutschland pulled out of original commissioning, leaving a funding gap in the series it shares with German pubcaster ARD Degeto…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s urban fantasy drama The Grimm Reality will not see the light of day. We’ve learned that the series from Dark producer Wiedemann & Berg and The Gryphon co-producer Dog Haus Films has been quietly shelved.
The Grimm Reality first went into development at Netflix’s German base and…
EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has boarded the fast-paced German medical drama KRANK Berlin.
Apple has joined ZDFneo on the eight-part series, which is from Violet Pictures and Real Film Berlin and co-created by former British emergency room physician turned screenwriter Samuel Jefferson and Brimstone and Glory…
EXCLUSIVE:Stuff the British Stole, the Australian-Canadian doc series about the impact of British colonialism, is being remade as a six-part scripted heist caper.
Anchuli Felicia King, who wrote on HBO’s The Sympathizer and The Baby and Deadloch for Prime Video, is creating and writing the series…
Pubcasters unite! France Télévisions and BBC Studios have struck a long-term strategic partnership to co-create factual shows.
The pair unveiled the deal at Sunnyside of the Doc in La Rochelle, France, today. It came into effect in April and means France Télévisions gets a first look at co-production…
Pirates of the Caribbean actor Tamayo Perry has died after a shark attack while surfing in Hawaii. He was 49.
Perry, who was also a lifeguard and professional surfer, was attacked on Sunday afternoon, Honolulu’s emergency services confirmed in a press conference.
Paramedics on Malaekahana Beach…
Netflix has boarded buzzy Asian drama series See Her Again on day one of the Shanghai TV Festival. The global has acquired international rights, an unusual move given it has rarely pre-bought shows out of China shows in the past.
You can watch a trailer for the series, which comes from Chinese…