Little Island Productions, one of the producers of BAFTA-winning Patrick Melrose and Amazon’s forthcoming epic fantasy drama The Wheel Of Time, is looking to enter its next phase of growth with plans to open a base in La and ramp up its slate of originals.
This comes as its latest original series, Stephen Poliakoff’s period drama Summer of Rockets, is set to launch on BBC Two.
In an interview with Deadline, Little Island Managing Director Helen Flint has also opened up about its plans to grow its business of acting as the UK production partner on a raft of Hollywood studio-produced series and its latest novel adaptation.
It’s been a good fortnight for the company. Last Sunday, Patrick Melrose, which it produced with Michael Jackson’s Two Cities Television, won two BAFTAs including best mini-series and Benedict Cumberbatch as best actor. Flint revealed that the show had...
This comes as its latest original series, Stephen Poliakoff’s period drama Summer of Rockets, is set to launch on BBC Two.
In an interview with Deadline, Little Island Managing Director Helen Flint has also opened up about its plans to grow its business of acting as the UK production partner on a raft of Hollywood studio-produced series and its latest novel adaptation.
It’s been a good fortnight for the company. Last Sunday, Patrick Melrose, which it produced with Michael Jackson’s Two Cities Television, won two BAFTAs including best mini-series and Benedict Cumberbatch as best actor. Flint revealed that the show had...
- 5/21/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Is there a hit from the past decade more widely imitated than “Homeland”? Perhaps that’s because the spy serial’s action-packed appeal seems easily replicable, even without a character as indelible as Carrie Mathison. Building relatable characters is hard, but ratcheting up tension is easy. Right?
Epix’s new series “Deep State” creates tense situations that don’t quite hit home — because, artfully directed and grimace-inducingly violent as those situations may be, they’re happening to people from whom we feel a strange remove. On “Deep State,” Mark Strong’s Max Easton is called back into the field as an MI6 agent to course-correct a failing mission in the Middle East. In so doing, he’s called away from his bucolic family life in France — including a wife who knows less than she might and who takes it upon herself to learn what her husband’s been up to.
Epix’s new series “Deep State” creates tense situations that don’t quite hit home — because, artfully directed and grimace-inducingly violent as those situations may be, they’re happening to people from whom we feel a strange remove. On “Deep State,” Mark Strong’s Max Easton is called back into the field as an MI6 agent to course-correct a failing mission in the Middle East. In so doing, he’s called away from his bucolic family life in France — including a wife who knows less than she might and who takes it upon herself to learn what her husband’s been up to.
- 6/13/2018
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Toby Stephens, Keeley Hawes, Linus Roache and Timothy Spall will lead the cast of the BBC’s Cold War drama “Summer of Rockets.” Shooting is now underway around London and Oxford on the six-part drama, which is written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff.
The BBC has released a first-look image from the production featuring Stephens (pictured), who plays a 40-something Russian Jewish émigré, an inventor and designer of custom hearing aids. He is approached by British intelligence service MI5 and tasked with a secret mission to obtain information about a British government minister (Roache) and his wife (Hawes), whom he has recently befriended.
Set in Britain in 1958, when the country tested its first hydrogen bomb, the semi-autobiographical series is described by executive producer Helen Flint as being “hinged at the pivotal point of world history where the past and future are pulling in equal strength, and human beings, young and old,...
The BBC has released a first-look image from the production featuring Stephens (pictured), who plays a 40-something Russian Jewish émigré, an inventor and designer of custom hearing aids. He is approached by British intelligence service MI5 and tasked with a secret mission to obtain information about a British government minister (Roache) and his wife (Hawes), whom he has recently befriended.
Set in Britain in 1958, when the country tested its first hydrogen bomb, the semi-autobiographical series is described by executive producer Helen Flint as being “hinged at the pivotal point of world history where the past and future are pulling in equal strength, and human beings, young and old,...
- 5/14/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Toby Stephens (Black Sails), Keeley Hawes (Line of Duty), Linus Roache (Homeland) and Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) have been set to star in writer-director Stephen Poliakoff’s (Dancing on the Edge) semi-autobiographical BBC Two drama Summer of Rockets, which is underway.
The six-episode hourlong series is set in the UK during the Cold War period of the late 1950s, a time when the UK, like much of the world, was dealing with the threat of international espionage and nuclear armageddon.
Helen Flint (Patrick Melrose) will executive produce for Little Island Productions and Lucy Richer for the BBC. The drama was commissioned by Patrick Holland, Controller of BBC Two, and Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, and will be distributed internationally by BBC Studios. Filming has begun in and around London and Oxford.
The series follows Samuel, a 40-something Russian Jewish émigré,...
The six-episode hourlong series is set in the UK during the Cold War period of the late 1950s, a time when the UK, like much of the world, was dealing with the threat of international espionage and nuclear armageddon.
Helen Flint (Patrick Melrose) will executive produce for Little Island Productions and Lucy Richer for the BBC. The drama was commissioned by Patrick Holland, Controller of BBC Two, and Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, and will be distributed internationally by BBC Studios. Filming has begun in and around London and Oxford.
The series follows Samuel, a 40-something Russian Jewish émigré,...
- 5/14/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
BBC drama boss Wenger orders over 25 hours of drama.
Russell T Davies, Stephen Poliakoff and Call the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas have penned dramas for Piers Wenger’s inaugural slate, reports Broadcast.
The BBC drama boss unveiled over 25 hours of new drama commissions across BBC1 and BBC2 at an event co-hosted by director general Tony Hall.
The nine series, seven for BBC1, one for BBC2 and one for BBC3, join recently announced Wenger commissions including Kudos’ Gunpowder and The Forge’s Carey Mulligan-fronted crime drama Collateral.
BBC1
Doctor Who writer Davies has written A Very English Scandal, a 3 x 60-minute series directed by Stephen Frears.
Based on the book A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston, it follows the true story of Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe’s conspiracy to kill his ex-lover Norman Scott.
Commissioned by Wenger and BBC director of content Moore, it...
Russell T Davies, Stephen Poliakoff and Call the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas have penned dramas for Piers Wenger’s inaugural slate, reports Broadcast.
The BBC drama boss unveiled over 25 hours of new drama commissions across BBC1 and BBC2 at an event co-hosted by director general Tony Hall.
The nine series, seven for BBC1, one for BBC2 and one for BBC3, join recently announced Wenger commissions including Kudos’ Gunpowder and The Forge’s Carey Mulligan-fronted crime drama Collateral.
BBC1
Doctor Who writer Davies has written A Very English Scandal, a 3 x 60-minute series directed by Stephen Frears.
Based on the book A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston, it follows the true story of Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe’s conspiracy to kill his ex-lover Norman Scott.
Commissioned by Wenger and BBC director of content Moore, it...
- 5/5/2017
- ScreenDaily
Last year it was announced that Rupert Grint was starring and executive producing Crackle’s new series “Snatch.” Now, during the streaming network’s panel at the Television Critics Association, they released the first trailer, which features the actor as the posh con man Charlie Cavendish.
The 10-episode, one-hour series is loosely based on Guy Ritchie’s 2000 comedy of the same name, starring Jason Statham and Brad Pitt. Inspired by a real-life heist in London, the series centers on a group of twenty-something, up-and-coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime.
Read More: ‘The Art of More’ Season 2 Trailer: Dennis Quaid and Kate Bosworth Return In Crackle’s Auctioneering Drama
The first sneak peek shows how, as rogue cops, gypsy fighters, international mobsters and local villains descend, the guys must quickly learn how to navigate...
The 10-episode, one-hour series is loosely based on Guy Ritchie’s 2000 comedy of the same name, starring Jason Statham and Brad Pitt. Inspired by a real-life heist in London, the series centers on a group of twenty-something, up-and-coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime.
Read More: ‘The Art of More’ Season 2 Trailer: Dennis Quaid and Kate Bosworth Return In Crackle’s Auctioneering Drama
The first sneak peek shows how, as rogue cops, gypsy fighters, international mobsters and local villains descend, the guys must quickly learn how to navigate...
- 1/13/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Plus: Rupert Grint to star in Crackle’s Snatch series; and more…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday that 12 scientific and technical investigations have been launched for next year’s Oscars.
Among the subjects the scientific and technical awards committee is investigating are on-set, real-time principal camera tracking technology, and reconfigurable, rideable, life-size animatronic horses.
The deadline to submit additional entries is August 30. Once the investigations are completed, the committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to board, which will make the final awards decisions.
The 2016 Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will take place on February 11, 2017. The 89th Oscars are set for February 26, 2017.
Programmers at the Vancouver International Film Festival have added 22 Canadian features in the Canadian Images and Future//Present strands. Click here for the full line-up.Boat Rocker Media’s Jam Filled Entertainment in Canada has purchased the principal assets of the recently closed Arc Productions Ltd. The...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday that 12 scientific and technical investigations have been launched for next year’s Oscars.
Among the subjects the scientific and technical awards committee is investigating are on-set, real-time principal camera tracking technology, and reconfigurable, rideable, life-size animatronic horses.
The deadline to submit additional entries is August 30. Once the investigations are completed, the committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to board, which will make the final awards decisions.
The 2016 Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will take place on February 11, 2017. The 89th Oscars are set for February 26, 2017.
Programmers at the Vancouver International Film Festival have added 22 Canadian features in the Canadian Images and Future//Present strands. Click here for the full line-up.Boat Rocker Media’s Jam Filled Entertainment in Canada has purchased the principal assets of the recently closed Arc Productions Ltd. The...
- 8/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Rupert Grint to star in Crackle’s Snatch series; and more…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday that 12 scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2017 Oscars.
Among the subjects the scientific and technical awards committee is investigating are on-set, real-time principal camera tracking technology, and reconfigurable, rideable, life-size animatronic horses.
The deadline to submit additional entries is August 30. Once the investigations are completed, the committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to board, which will make the final awards decisions.
The 2016 Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will take place on February 11, 2017. The 89th Oscars are set for February 26, 2017.
Programmers at the Vancouver International Film Festival have added 22 Canadian features in the Canadian Images and Future//Present strands. Click here for the full line-up.Boat Rocker Media’s Jam Filled Entertainment in Canada has purchased the principal assets of the recently closed Arc Productions Ltd. The acquisition...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday that 12 scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2017 Oscars.
Among the subjects the scientific and technical awards committee is investigating are on-set, real-time principal camera tracking technology, and reconfigurable, rideable, life-size animatronic horses.
The deadline to submit additional entries is August 30. Once the investigations are completed, the committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to board, which will make the final awards decisions.
The 2016 Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will take place on February 11, 2017. The 89th Oscars are set for February 26, 2017.
Programmers at the Vancouver International Film Festival have added 22 Canadian features in the Canadian Images and Future//Present strands. Click here for the full line-up.Boat Rocker Media’s Jam Filled Entertainment in Canada has purchased the principal assets of the recently closed Arc Productions Ltd. The acquisition...
- 8/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Starz today announced it has secured exclusive U.S. premium rights to, and will co-produce the 6-episode original miniseries “Close to the Enemy,” written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, with Helen Flint, Hilary Bevan Jones and Colin Callender, serving as Executive Producers. Set in a bomb-damaged London hotel during the aftermath of World War II, “Close to the Enemy” is a thriller that follows British intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson, whose last task for the Army is to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, hands over secret cutting-edge military technology crucial to national security. Callum employs unorthodox...
- 9/14/2015
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Starz has acquired exclusive U.S. premium rights to Close To The Enemy, a six-episode original miniseries written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff (Dancing On The Edge) with Helen Flint (Longford), Hilary Bevan Jones (Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot) and Colin Callender (Wolf Hall) serving as executive producers. It’s slated to premiere on BBC Two in the UK and Starz in the U.S. in 2016. Set in a bomb-damaged London hotel during the aftermath of World War II, thriller Close To The…...
- 9/14/2015
- Deadline TV
Jim Sturgess and Freddie Highmore have been cast in new BBC Two drama Close to the Enemy.
The series - written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff - will follow an intelligence officer (Sturgess), who must get a captured German scientist to develop a jet engine for the Raf following the end of the Second World War.
Charlotte Riley (Peaky Blinders), Phoebe Fox (The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death), August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds), Robert Glenister (Hustle) and Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones) will star alongside Sturgess and Highmore.
Lindsay Duncan (Birdman), Angela Bassett (American Horror Story) and Alfred Molina (Love is Strange) have also been cast.
BBC Two controller, Kim Shillinglaw, said: "Stephen Poliakoff is one of the country's foremost writers and directors and I'm delighted he is creating this distinctive new piece for us.
"I want BBC Two to be the place where creatives can come and do their best,...
The series - written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff - will follow an intelligence officer (Sturgess), who must get a captured German scientist to develop a jet engine for the Raf following the end of the Second World War.
Charlotte Riley (Peaky Blinders), Phoebe Fox (The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death), August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds), Robert Glenister (Hustle) and Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones) will star alongside Sturgess and Highmore.
Lindsay Duncan (Birdman), Angela Bassett (American Horror Story) and Alfred Molina (Love is Strange) have also been cast.
BBC Two controller, Kim Shillinglaw, said: "Stephen Poliakoff is one of the country's foremost writers and directors and I'm delighted he is creating this distinctive new piece for us.
"I want BBC Two to be the place where creatives can come and do their best,...
- 3/31/2015
- Digital Spy
London – Golden Globe-winning producer Helen Flint has exited U.K. film and TV production banner Company Pictures to start her own indie label. Flint is setting up Little Island Productions after eight years as head of production at Company Pictures where her résumé boasts the Golden Globe-winning HBO and Channel Four co-production Longford, directed by Tom Hooper from a script by Peter Morgan and starring Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton. Photos: 81 of Fall TV's Biggest Stars: THR's Exclusive Portraits Alex Protherough, Flint's deputy at Company Pictures has also joined Lip as production executive. The startup
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- 9/30/2013
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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