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EXCLUSIVE: When Murray Ferguson left UK drama house Clerkenwell Films in 2021 after more than two decades, it was a true changing of the guard. Today marks a big day for his successors, Petra Fried and Wim de Greef. Not only is the Truelove and The End of the F***ing World producer’s Netflix drama…

Matt Smith is to star in and EP a Sky adaptation of Nick Cave’s sophomore novel The Death of Bunny Munro. Smith will play the titular role. Following his wife Libby's suicide, the sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario finds himself saddled with a young son and…

EXCLUSIVE: The End of the F***ing World producer Clerkenwell Films and Envision Entertainment are co-creating a six-part drama series about a working-class teenage girl sent to an elite finishing school. Swans is now in development as female-led show set in the so-called ‘Swinging ’60s.’ It will…

Julie Walters (National Treasure) and Clarke Peters (The Wire) are fronting a dark, irreverent drama based around a death pact for broadcaster Channel 4. They will star in Clerkenwell Films’ six-part Truelove, which is written by from Iain Weatherby (Humans) and co-created with Charlie Covell. She wrote the tonally…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios has started drumming up interest internationally for The Birth of Daniel F Harris, the latest young adult drama from End of the F***ing World producer Clerkenwell Films. Channel 4’s show is one of two UK entries in the Series Mania International Competition and was given a world premiere to…

It’s the end of an era at The End Of The F***ing World and Misfits producer Clerkenwell Films, where founder and CEO Murray Ferguson is leaving after 23 years and BBC Studios is taking full control of the business. Ferguson founded the UK production outfit in 1998, but will step away in the fall to try his hand at…

Channel 4 has commissioned its latest series from Clerkenwell Films, the producer behind its BAFTA-winning Netflix co-production The End Of The F***ing World. Like Clerkenwell did with End Of The F***ing World’s Charlie Covell, the company is teaming with a relatively new writer, Pete Jackson (One Normal Night), to…

BritBox has teamed up with the BBC as well as a number of broadcasters across Europe to launch a Spain-set crime drama from the writer behind The Good Karma Hospital and Delicious. The broadcasters have ordered The Mallorca Files (w/t), created by Dan Sefton, and produced by Cosmopolitan Pictures, the production…

Clerkenwell Films, the British production company behind teen sci-fi drama Misfits and Netflix and C4's The End of the Fxxxing World, is developing a scripted series based on the life of British entrepreneur Jamal Edwards. Edwards, the founder of online video channel SBTV, which was responsible for helping the careers…

BBC Worldwide has increased its stake in Clerkenwell Films, the British production company behind Netflix co-production The End of the F***ing World. The commercial arm of the British public broadcaster has increased its stake from 25% to 48% in the Murray Ferguson-run firm, which also produced series including Misfits…