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Netflix announce an animated Stranger Things spinoff

Get ready for an Upside Down cartoon show.  The streaming service Netflix has announced an animated spinoff for its monster hit Stranger Things. While the show itself is set to end after its fifth season, this animation has received a straight-to-series order. The as yet untitled series is coming from the Sydney based animation house … >

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Stephen Graham and Jodie Comer to star in Jack Thorne’s Help

Channel 4 has commissioned Roadkill producer The Forge in association with One Shoe Films to produce Help (w/t), a new drama from the BAFTA award-winning writer Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials, National Treasure) and BAFTA award-winning director Marc Munden (The Third Day, Utopia) Set in a fictional Liverpool care home, Help tells the moving story of the relationship between a … >

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Kiri writer Jack Thorne eyeing Grenfell Tower drama?

Where there’s unbelievable tragedy, there’s public interest. And where there’s public interest, there’s usually a few films and TV shows that seek to fulfil that fascination. And so, Jack Thorne has revealed that he’d be interested in writing a series based on Grenfell Tower.

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Kiri: Channel 4’s new Jack Thorne drama set for January premiere

The thoroughly brilliant and incredibly prolific Jack Thorne (amongst his most recent credits: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child, the script for the movie Wonder, Star Wars: Episode IX, National Treasure) has penned another new drama heading to UK television. Sarah Lancashire is headlining this one, and it goes by the name of Kiri. It’s … >

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Timothy Spall to lead cast of Channel 4’s first Philip K. Dick drama

Channel 4 has announced the cast for the first of its upcoming dramas based on the short stories of award-winning sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick. A co-production between Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television, the “hugely ambitious” anthology series will be written and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) and Michael Dinner (Justified) alongside Breaking Bad … >

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