A huge congratulations to team Utopia who won the best series category (FIPA D'OR) at the International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes (FIPA) in Biarritz France on Saturday night. FIPA is a very prestigious international TV competition and we beat 10 other international series including Parades End and One Day from the UK to win. Director Marc Munden was there to collect ...

We'll Take Manhattan has been nominated for best TV movie at the Prix Europa Awards 2012 We'll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between Sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Karen Gillan has been cast as Shrimpton, her first lead role since starring alongside Matt Smith as Amy Pond in Doctor Who. Focusing on a wild and ...

MAJOR NEW SIX-PART DRAMA SERIES Written by Dennis Kelly Conspiracy theory turned terrifyingly real is the subject of a brand-new six-part drama series (6 x 60'), Utopia, written by Dennis Kelly, the co-creator of the Olivier Award winning Matilda, and greenlit by Chief Creative Officer Jay Hunt. When a small group of people find themselves in possession of a manuscript ...

Sky 1 HD today (22nd June) announces THE SMOKE – a brand new drama series following the day to day lives of a crew in a London fire station. THE SMOKE will tell the adrenaline-fuelled and gut-wrenchingly emotional stories around the crew's working and personal lives. Production will start in early 2013 for transmission later in the year exclusively on Sky 1 HD. THE SMOKE ...

Sophie Okonedo, Peter Firth, Aidan Gillen and Lesley Manville to star in new BBC One thriller Mayday from Kudos Film and Television Mayday is a sophisticated five part thriller about suspecting those closest to you of committing a terrible crime, from writers Ben Court and Caroline Ip (Whitechapel). When a young girl goes missing on her way to the Mayday parade, feared ...

Everything matters, now. Who did what, who was where. Everything connects.. A new eight part ITV ensemble drama series, Broadchurch, led by David Tennant, Olivia Colman and Vicky McClure will explore what happens to a small community when it suddenly becomes the focus of a major event and is subjected to the full glare of the media spotlight. Produced by Kudos Film and ...

LONDON, February 7 2012:The Bush Theatre, champion of contemporary playwrights, andKudos Film and Television,producer of Spooks,Life on Marsand The Hour, have joined forces to launch a writers' co-development initiative, designed to support and develop the skills of writers currently working in either or both theatre and television. This new initiative has been created to ...

Kudos Film & Television Announce 10th Series Of Spooks Will Be The Last As the critically-acclaimed and award-winning spy drama Spooks enters its 10th series, producers Kudos Film & Television have announced that after a decade on screen, the show will bow out at the end of its next run. Hailed as a benchmark for British drama, and consistently averaging an ...

The cast of BBC Three's provocative drama Lip Service, produced by Kudos Film and Television through BBC Scotland, return to the streets, bars and clubs of Glasgow's Merchant City for a second series. Ruta Gedmintas returns as edgy photographer Frankie, Laura Fraser as uptight architect Cat and Fiona Button as accident prone actress Tess. A new face, Anna Skellern, plays ...

....'Hummingbird' Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) to make feature directorial debut with the project LONDON, April 11, 2011 - Shine Pictures has optioned the feature film rights to screenwriter Steve Knight's new screenplay Hummingbird as a vehicle for Knight to direct. The project will mark Knight's feature directorial debut and will be co-produced by ...

New Single Drama for BBC Four Starring Karen Gillan 30 March 2011, London – The BBC has announced the commission of single drama, We'll Take Manhattan, which explores the explosive love affair between photographer, David Bailey and sixties supermodel, Jean Shrimpton. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the ...

Former Head of Comedy, BBC Scotland Jemma Rodgers to head new venture March 30 2011: Shine Group companies Kudos Film and Television and Brown Eyed Boy today announced the opening of a joint venture in Scotland, aimed at working with local Scottish talent on and off screen, year round. Kudos Brown Eyed Boy Scotland will be headed by Jemma Rodgers (Wedding Belles, ...

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BECOME A SPOOK? YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU Universal Playback is pleased to announce the launch of an all new interactive experience giving you the first ever chance to become a Spook. Created to celebrate the release of Spooks: Series 9 on DVD, this original mission will feature never before seen footage from the Spooks cast and the best in ...

Shine Pictures Announces 'BIG IDEA' Winners Production Company announces two winners of its national screenwriting competition Winners will each receive a 25,000 feature film development deal 11 January 2011: Shine Pictures, the joint film venture between the UK's Kudos Pictures and leading Hollywood producer-distributor New Regency has announced two winners of its ...

BBC Films executive to source and finance new film projects at Shine Pictures and Kudos Pictures London, December 2, 2010 Shine Group has appointed BBC Films' Commercial Manager Paula Jalfon as Senior Vice President Production; overseeing the financing and production of the Group's film operations Shine Pictures and Kudos Pictures. In her new role commencing January 11, ...

Six part drama series Eternal Law, created and written by Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham, has been commissioned by ITV for 2011. Set in the beautiful city of York, Eternal Law is a bittersweet, uplifting drama which focuses on two central characters, Zak and Tom, who are angels sent to earth to both help a community and try to understand the human condition. The ...

Romola Garai (Emma, Atonement), Dominic West (The Wire, The Devil's Whore) and Ben Whishaw (Bright Star, Criminal Justice, Brideshead Revisited) lead an all-star cast as filming begins on The Hour, a thrilling six-part series which takes viewers behind the scenes of the launch of a topical news programme in London 1956, written and created by Bafta award-winning Abi Morgan ...

Friday, 6th August - SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN begins principal photography today and will shoot on location for nine weeks in London, Scotland and Morocco. SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN is financed by BBC Films, UK Film Council, Lionsgate UK. Lionsgate is handling international sales. Starring Ewan McGregor (The Ghost), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) and Kristin Scott ...

Sex, lies and true love in modern Scotland. Lip Service is a seductive new relationship drama starring Laura Fraser, Ruta Gedmintas and Fiona Button following the lives of a group of 20-something friends. Cat (Laura Fraser) is a self-assured architect, unnerved by the return of her former lover, Frankie (Ruta Gedmintas), a talented but emotionally reckless photographer who ...

A group of courageous pioneers face a unique opportunity: the chance to build a new and better future on another planet. Outcasts is an epic new eight-part drama series created by Ben Richards for BBC One. They are led by President Tate (Liam Cunningham) and his core team of Stella (Hermione Norris), Cass (Daniel Mays) and Fleur (Amy Manson) they took charge and settled ...

London, 4th June 2010 - The launch of the Red Planet Prize, the third annual search for new writing talent was announced today by Tony Jordan, who also announced that this year the Red Planet competition will be held in partnership with Kudos Film and Television in a drive to discover the best of Britains unsigned writers. First launched in 2007 the competition has already ...

Shine rises to top of indie pile BROADCAST 18 MARCH 2010, Liz Murdochs Shine Group has become the biggest super-indie in the UK, vaulting over previous market leader All3Media thanks to dynamic growth overseas. The company, founded by Murdoch in 2001, grew its turnover by 23% last year, from 216m to 265m, with more than half (60%) of that revenue coming from outside the ...

Following on from the innovative and era-defining hits Spooks, Hustle and Life on Mars, Kudos is moving into another new world. BBC One has commissioned a new eight part drama series, Outcasts, from Shine Groups Kudos Film & TV. Created by Ben Richards (Spooks, The Fixer, Party Animals ), Outcasts is set on a recently discovered planet and tells of the dilemmas, loves ...

The Hustle gang are back in business, ready to take each and every cheat, liar or criminal for all they've got. From MPs' expenses to fat-cat bankers, there are plenty of marks for the team to target. Brother and sister duo, Sean and Emma, are working out well as new members of the crew and as much as Mickey hates to admit it, Albert was right about them; they have proved to ...

A new term means all-new top-secret missions as the school kid spies from M.I. High return to CBBC for a fantastic fourth series. St Hopes is no ordinary comprehensive, as deep beneath the corridors and classrooms lies the top secret headquarters of M.I. High M.I.9s division of highly trained teen spies. Their mission is to protect Britain from a series of threats to ...

I am delighted to announce that the fantastic fourth series of M.I High will begin on BBC1 in the New Year. This year the threats are deadlier, the gadgets more high tech, the visual effects superbly spectacular and the action even more thrilling. Episode One Run Carrie Run Monday 4th January 2010 4.35pm BBC1. Then switch over to CBBC for Episode Two at 5.05pm The ...

In a remote and forgotten wilderness one of nature's last great mysteries unfolds: the birth, life and death of a million crimson-winged flamingos. Against a dramatic backdrop of never-before filmed landscapes, these secretive birds struggle to survive and prevail over danger and fate. Filmed over two years by filmmakers Matthew Aeberhard and Leander Ward, every moment ...

The Fixer is back on our screens from Tuesday 2nd September at 9.00pm on ITV1. Make sure you don't miss it! Here are a few best of the press so far - "In a post Crank world, a hit man drama needs something special to attract attention. But the second series of ITV1'S The Fixer has a secret weapon; Andrew Buchan.so impressive has his performance been that he has ...

<b>TV Times</b> : "Full of brilliant one-liners and great Eighties fashions, it is fabulous to have Gene Hunt and co back on the box." <b>London Lite</b> : "...rollicking entertainment..." <b>Daily Express</b> : "Once again the winning formula of amusing nostalgia and police procedure is enhanced by ...