BBC Studios Signs Development Deal With Mo Abudu Of EbonyLife, Set Six-Part Heist Thriller ‘Reclaim’

Police today confirmed that three men have been arrested in connection with the deaths of a model Christy Giles and her architect friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola last month.

Some Hotties can really do it all. Following a busy season, fans of the recent college graduate can now expect to see some Megan Thee Stallion Netflix productions coming down the pipeline. The Texas-born rapper has just landed a first-look deal with the streamer, which will allow her to create and executive produce a series, most likely a comedy, along with other projects for the platform.

EXCLUSIVE: Pantaya signed an overall deal with Mexican actress Fernanda Castillo under which she’ll star in and co-produce original series and films (via Pantaleon Films) for the company.

BBC Studios Partners With Mercury On Music Formats

BBC Studios has taken full control of Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s prolific Sherwood and Brexit: The Uncivil War producer House Productions.

Manori Ravindran International EditorBBC Studios has upped its 25% stake in “Brexit: The Uncivil War” producer House Productions to take full ownership of the London-based production company.Launched in 2016 by the former head of Film 4 Tessa Ross (pictured, right) and Working Title TV boss Juliette Howell (left), the company specializes in both film and TV with forthcoming credits including BBC One thriller “Sherwood”; an adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s bestselling novel “Life After Life”;

Netflix signed a multi-year overall deal with creator, writer, and producer Kalinda Vazquez (Star Trek: Discovery, Fear The Walking Dead). Under the terms of the deal, she will create, write and produce new series and other projects at the streamer.

The story of Snoop Dogg’s murder trial and his hit single Murder was the Case are being developed as a series for Starz.

K.J. Yossman BBC Studios, the broadcaster’s commercial arm, has appointed its general counsel Martyn Freeman to the position of chief operating officer.As general counsel, Freeman already oversees BBC Studio’s business and legal affairs, global operations, compliance and risk.

BBC Studios’ new CEO Tom Fussell has promoted the producer/distributor’s General Counsel Martyn Freeman to Chief Operating Officer.

BBC Studios has appointed former WarnerMedia exec Cecilia Persson to head up its children’s division, which is shifting from being an in-house BBC team to operating under the commercial outfit.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDiscovery inked a development deal for a slate of new original series for Discovery Plus from Group Nine Media, the digital media company whose brands include NowThis, the Dodo, Thrillist and Seeker.Discovery is one of the founding investors in New York-based Group Nine and has already licensed some Group Nine programming for Discovery Plus.Under the pact, in addition to new shows in development, Discovery Plus has a first-look option on 30 additional original

BBC Studios’ Los Angles production arm has promoted Ryan O’Dowd.

UK’s Alibi Acquires ‘Pretty Hard Cases’

EXCLUSIVE: Submarine, the company behind Amazon’s animated drama Undone, is to explore the history of ecstasy in a new docuseries.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) is seeking a Head of Development, with incumbent Gavin Boyland moving to series-produce an unannounced major landmark brand that he has developed for the division.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios Drama Productions has set a development partnership with Nigerian television pioneer Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu, founder and CEO of global entertainment network EbonyLife Media.

Will Poulter settles the score in this thumping, thrilling new trailer.