Jesse joined Deadline in 2022 from UK TV trade Broadcast, where he had most recently been Insight Editor, overseeing features and long-form reporting. He worked across editing and commissioning and wrote news, features and long-read articles for Broadcast’s monthly magazine and website. A veteran entertainment industry journalist, he has also worked at Television Business International, where he was Editor, and at C21. He is based in London.
Don’t blink, Insiders. Jesse Whittock is here with you in the week Skydance took over Warner Bros. Discovery and Doctor Who began planning for the future. Here we go. Ready?
‘Doctor Who’ Regeneration Underway
David Tennant in ‘Doctor…
EXCLUSIVE:Succession star Sarah Snook and Game of Thrones actors Maisie Williams, Liam Cunningham, Iain Glen and Kit Harington are making their microdrama debuts.
Vertical video platform Snips is adapting series that each actor or actress has starred in for the new medium, as the platform…
EXCLUSIVE: Indie production house ASOB Media is dressing its doc series A Study on Beauty for MIPCOM Cannes.
Created and written by two-time Creative Arts Emmy winner Gabbi Pascua and directed by Alan Dennis (Morningside 5, 30 for 30), A Study on Beauty explores culture, history, and human…
EXCLUSIVE: Icelandic crime thriller series Elma, will launch domestically on Síminn’s streaming service on October 15, as its producer brings new title NCU to MIPCOM.
Elma, adapted from global bestselling author Eva BjörgÆgisdóttir's book series, is set in the small port town of Akranes in…
EXCLUSIVE: Following strong ratings on The CW, Police 24/7 is opening new outposts.
Reelz has struck a second-window deal for Seasons 1 and 2 of the blue-lights show in which law-enforcement agencies across the United States are followed across multiple jurisdictions and stories — from routine…
Kevin MacLellan, President of International and Global Content Distribution at the pre-merger Paramount, is leaving Skydance.
The news comes soon after Warner Bros. Discovery executive David Decker was named President, Content Sales at Skydance; with Jay Askinasi becoming Chief Revenue Officer…
“If anyone can get this done, it’s your mother,” Freddie Highmore’s Edward hears in the first trailer for Prime Video thriller The Assassin Season 2.
Amazon’s streaming service has released a trailer and penciled in a November 6 launch date for the show in the UK and Ireland. Banijay Rights is…
EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Ash (Superstore), Mae Martin (Wayward) and Randall Park (Wandavision) are joining the campers at Crave comedy Meatballs.
The trio will be guest cast in the series, which is billed as a “raunchy, irreverent reimagining of the beloved 1979 Canadian comedy classic” that starred…
Welcome to our selection of the most scorching titles headed to MIPCOM this year, The Deadline Dozen. Our editorial team has carefully researched and selected the projects we expect to drive the chatter on the Croisette and beyond.Day two of our Deadline Dozen brings scripted. For the best unscr…
UPDATED with confirmation: David Brindley has been confirmed as the new Director of Programmes at Channel 4. He will have oversight of all scripted and unscripted genres and will join the Channel 4 board.
Channel 4 CEO Priya Dogra said Brindley “has a proven ability to nurture the ideas and…
EXCLUSIVE: Australian bestseller The Titanic Story of Evelyn is charting a course to TV.
The Set Up, the newly minted television banner fromBruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Alison Hurbert-Burns, is collaborating with Australian journalist, writer and author Lisa Wilkinson for the TV…
The tectonic plates of the international production world shifted forever on July 9, when the merger between indie giants Banijay Entertainment and All3Media closed. The result created an entity larger than the BBC with annual pro forma revenues of €7.4B ($8.5B) and a catalog including MasterChef, The…