EXCLUSIVE: CBC is returning to Saint-Pierre for a third time. The Canadian broadcaster has greenlit a third run of the cop drama, which stars Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle) and Jósephine Jobert (Death in Paradise). The twelve-part run will begin filming in Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in July. Hawco Productions is back to produce for CBC […]

Fifth Season and HarbourView Equity Partners have set a multi-picture financing pact that will help the indie film and TV production outfit bring to life a number of projects including Dev Patel’s “The Peasant” and the Mila Kunis thriller “Nightwatching.” The deal adds to the film, TV and music investment bets that HarbourView Equity is […]

EXCLUSIVE: Fifth Season has entered a multi-picture financing deal with HarbourView Equity Partners (HarbourView), the New York investment firm with a significant music portfolio and growing investments in film and TV. The first films under the deal are The Peasant, the Fifth Season co-production directed, co-written, and led by Dev Patel, and set for release by A24; […]

London-based sales and impact outfit Together Films has picked up international rights to the Swedish love drama “Lisa & Lilly,” produced by Fifth Season’s Scandi production powerhouse Nordic Drama Queens. The project, due to start lensing in August, marks the feature length debut of helmer Julia Lindström, credited for Netflix’ “Young Royals” Season 3, “The […]

As the Swedish show “Summer of 1985,” based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist (“Let the Right One In,” “Border”), is set to make a splash at Canneseries’ competition, its production banner Media Res International is sitting on a possible sequel. According to the series producer Anna-Klara Carlsten, the international division of U.S. studio […]

EXCLUSIVE: Young Sherlock producer Motive Pictures is developing two new projects with Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, while bolstering its development team to manage a growing slate of dramas. Motive previously collaborated with James on his first TV project, Get Millie Black, for Channel 4 in the UK and HBO in the U.S. Now James, […]

Fifth Season has announced the launch of Quite Contrary Pictures, a new non-scripted and documentary production banner headed by Emmy-winning executive Mary Lisio. Quite Contrary Pictures will serve as the new home for all of Fifth Season’s non-scripted works. Lisio will serve as president of Quite Contrary, building out a slate of documentary features, docuseries, and […]

Fifth Season is launching a standalone non-fiction production banner with Mary Lisio, who has exec produced documentaries including History’s Gettysburg and Netflix’s Worst Roommate Ever. Lisio, who was previously EVP of Non-Scripted Development & Production at the CJ ENM-backed studio, will head Quite Contrary, which become the home of all of Fifth Season’s non-scripted works. […]

David Oyelowo, Hayley Atwell and Jack Huston are leading a new adaptation of Treasure Island for MGM+ and Paramount+ UK. The trio are joined by Tomer Capone and Tom Sweet in the version of the Robert Louis Stevenson epic. Oyelowo will play Long John Silver, Atwell is Bess Hawkins and Huston is Aaron Graham. Treasure […]

EXCLUSIVE: Media Res has struck a first-look distribution deal with Fifth Season and set Swedish series Summer of 1985 as their debut project. First trailer for the Stranger Things-esque series is below. Fifth Season, which already sells Media Res’ Pachinko, Scenes from a Marriage and The Morning Show, will have first refusal on distributing Media […]

Fifth Season has acquired the rights to the erotic novel “Beautiful Bastard” with plans to develop it as a TV series, Variety has learned exclusively. The novel, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013, is written by Christina Lauren, the pen name of co-authors Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. Both Hobbs and Billings […]

Fifth Season, the global film and television studio behind “Severance,” has announced that award-winning executive and producer Peter Traugott will join the company as President of Television, reporting to CEO Graham Taylor. Additionally, current Fifth Season employees Noah Greenshner and Maggie Burkhead have expanded their roles within the television division. Greenshner will now serve as […]

In a surprise power move, Apple has purchased “the IP and all rights” to the hit Apple TV show Severance from its former studio, Fifth Season. Deadline exclusively reports that Apple acquired Severance in a deal that was “finalized late last year.” According to Deadline’s sources, Apple paid “just under $70 million” to buy Severance from […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Produced by an “outie” studio for its first two seasons, Apple TV’s flagship drama series Severance will now be made by an “innie” one. In a deal finalized late last year, Apple has acquired Severance — the IP and all rights — from Fifth Season, Deadline has learned. Under the pact, which sources peg […]