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Max Goldbart
International TV Co-Editor
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Max joined Deadline in 2021 and covers the European TV industry, particularly the UK. He spent the previous four years at UK TV trade Broadcast, rising from reporter to chief reporter and focusing on public service broadcasting, the BBC and BBC Studios. He also reported on the British TV sector's diversity push and efforts to end bullying and harassment. He has regularly appeared in the national media on a variety of TV topics and has freelanced for a number of UK trade mags along with global free speech publication Index on Censorship.
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Joe Sugg & Caspar Lee’s Agency Hires UK Talent Boss
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee’s IMG-backed digital talent agency MVE has expanded in the UK by signing a head of talent.
Minnie Harding, one of a number who has recently left Simon Cowell’s agency YMU, has joined up with the London and LA-based outfit run by the popular YouTubers.
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More YMU Exits: Trio Of Agents Depart, Taking Wealth Of Top TV Talent With Them
EXCLUSIVE: There have been more exits at UK agency YMU, further shaking up the talent landscape as a wealth of top TV names depart with their reps.
Senior agents Rebecca Dowell, Minnie Harding and Lizzie Barroll Brown have all left Simon Cowell’s agency over the summer months, taking with them the…
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Hollywood’s Mental Health Crisis: UK Screen Industry Faces Fresh Reckoning As Scandal & Suicide Strengthen Calls To Make Well-Being Support On Sets A Mainstay
Editor’s note: The latest in a series of Deadline reports looking at how the current upheaval in the media & entertainment industry is impacting mental health. Today: how well-being conversations are shaping up in Britain, Hollywood's home away from home.Â
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Inspector Lynley Series In The Works At BritBox International & ‘Wolf Hall’ Producer Playground
EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley mysteries are being given a new lease of life.
More than 15 years on from the closer of the BBC’s mid-noughties adaptation, BritBox International, Wolf Hall producer Playground and Salt Films are developing Lynley, a new version, which is being penned by…
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International Insider: Olympics; Venice Line-Up; Trouble At The BBC
Good afternoon, Max Goldbart here penning the newsletter on the day of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. Read on to digest happenings in the world of media and entertainment. And sign up here.
Olympic Torch Burns Bright
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Mediapro Studio Buys ‘Game Of Thrones’ Firm Fresco Film; Persephonica Opens In Sheffield; BritBox Finance SVP – Global Briefs
Mediapro Studio Buys 'Game Of Thrones' Firm Fresco Film
The Mediapro Studio has bought Fresco Film, the Malaga-based production services company that played a key role in Game of Thrones filming in Spain, helping to establish a lucrative tax credit system in the process. Mediapro sees the acquisition…
Barack & Michelle Obama Endorse Kamala Harris For President
Barack and Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris for President.
The former POTUS ended days of speculation by saying Joe Biden’s replacement has the “vision, the character, and the strength that this critical moment demands” in a joint statement with his wife, the former first lady.
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Newen Studios Buys U.S. TV Movie Distributor Johnson Production Group
France’s Newen Studios has bought Johnson Production Group (JPG), a financier, producer and distributor of TV movies.
The 32-year-old group’s founding president Timothy O. Johnson will continue to lead the company. JPG said it packages, finances and distributes more than 40 TV movies per year…
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Sky’s Zai Bennett Heading To BBC Studios To Run Production Arm
Sky Content MD Zai Bennett is heading to BBC Studios.
The UK programs chief of the Comcast-owned pay-TV giant will run BBC Studios Productions, a job that has been vacant for several months and one of the most talked about in the British industry. He replaces Ralph Lee.
Bennett will oversee a…
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Rumpus Signs Entertainment Boss; Edinburgh TV Fest Program; Paramount+’s ‘Dating Naked’ Teased; Newcastle Enters Streaming Game; Fred Media Shake-Up; Movistar Joins ‘Turbulence’; ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ On Stage – Global Briefs
Rumpus Signs Entertainment Boss
The producer of RuPaul-hosted CBS gameshow Lingo is heading to Late Night Lycett indie Rumpus, as the STV Studios-backed outfit moves to its next phase. Adeel Amini is taking on the newly-created role of Head of Entertainment, several months after Rumpus founders Iain W…
UK Film & TV Bullying Reporting Body Secures Top Lawyer As Chair
The UK’s new independent body for reporting bullying and sexual harassment in film and TV has elected its first chair.
Helena Kennedy, who is one of Britain’s most distinguished lawyers, has been named as chair of the organization, which emerged from the #MeToo movement.
Broadcasters and other…
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ITV Content Boss Criticizes BBC For “Peculiar” Decision To Buy ‘Suits’ & ‘Gossip Girl’
The head of programs at ITV has criticized the BBC for the “peculiar” decision to buy splashy U.S. shows like Suits and Gossip Girl amid the downturn.
Kevin Lygo said he was “surprised” to see airtime during the BBC’s coverage of the Euros soccer tournament given to promoting these U.S. shows, which…
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