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A brand-new Doctor Who audio adventure series will feature River Song meeting two companions from the classic series. Alex Kingston reprises her title role as the time-traveling adventurer in The Death and Life of River Song.

The Death and Life of River Song is a continuation of an ongoing series of audio dramas featuring the character, with River meeting the Fifth Doctor's companion Tegan (Janet Fielding) and the Seventh Doctor's pal Ace (Sophie Aldred) when they're all suddenly stranded in 1860. Four new serials begin with "Castaways," where Tegan and Ace find themselves wandering through the newly-opened London Underground with no memory of how they got there.

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Jessica Alexander, who starred in the recent psychological horror movie A Banquet (pictured above) and the dystopian thriller Glasshouse, is now playing the lead role in Fallen, a supernatural series being made for the Brazilian streaming service Globoplay. Fallen is now filming, and given the fact that most of the cast are not Brazilian I have a feeling the show is going to be available on other services than Globoplay at some point.

Alexander’s co-stars include Alexander Siddig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso), Gijs Blom (The Letter for the King), Timothy Innes (The Last Kingdom), Josefine Koenig (My Name Is Josy), Lawrence Walker (The ReZort), Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness (Days of the Bagnold Summer), Laura Majid (Five), Courtney Chen (FBI: International), and newcomers Esme Kingdom, Maura Bird, Samantha Bell, and Julian Krenn.

Inspired by Lauren Kate’s bestselling Fallen series of novels, the first season of the...

“Shantaram” star Alexander Siddig is set to lead a supernatural series for Brazilian streaming service Globoplay.

“Fallen,” which has begun principal photography, will star Siddig alongside Sarah Niles (“Ted Lasso”), Jessica Alexander (“Get Even”), Gijs Blom (“The Letter for the King”) and Timothy Innes (“The Last Kingdom”).

Produced by Silver Reel and Night Train Media, and co-produced with Globoplay, “Fallen” (8 x 60′) follows the story of Luce, a young woman who is sent to a cult-like rehab facility called Sword & Cross to serve time for a crime she can’t remember committing.

Among the other residents, she encounters the enigmatic Daniel (Blom) and exasperating but irresistible Cam (Innes), all of whom are under the watchful eye of the sinister chief doctor Howson (Siddig), and devout twin sisters Miriam and Sophia (Niles). Luce must untangle the mystery of who she is and why she has a connection to Daniel that goes far...

Principal photography is underway on supernatural series “Fallen” for the Brazilian streaming service Globoplay, Variety reports, with Alexander Siddig (“Shantaram”) on board to star.

The cast will also include Sarah Niles (“Ted Lasso”), Jessica Alexander (“Get Even”), Gijs Blom (“The Letter for the King”) and Timothy Innes (“The Last Kingdom”).

“Fallen” is said to be “an epic love story about a young woman discovering her true strength.”

Inspired by Lauren Kate’s bestselling novels, the series “follows the story of Luce, a young woman who is sent to a cult-like rehab facility called Sword & Cross to serve time for a crime she can’t remember committing. Among the other residents, she encounters the enigmatic Daniel (Blom) and exasperating but irresistible Cam (Innes), all of whom are under the watchful eye of the sinister chief doctor Howson (Siddig), and devout twin sisters Miriam and Sophia (Niles).

“Luce must untangle the mystery...

In today’s Global Bulletin, Highland Film Group secures distribution in key territories for Kevin Bacon-starrer “One Way,” “Germany’s Next Top Model” gets a five-season renewal, ITV brings back “The Cube,” launches “Stack It!” and picks up co-producers for “A Year on Planet Earth,” Amazon Prime Video unveils premiere details for “Toofaan,” Filmzie and Netgem TV team in the U.K., Mopar Studios enlists U.K. drama specialists to develop international content, Sky hires a trio of comedy specialists and Hot Docs unveils its Special Presentations titles.

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Highland Film Group has secured a raft of international distribution deals for Andrew Baird’s new thriller “One Way,” starring Kevin Bacon and Colson Baker (“The Dirt”), better known as recording artist Machine Gun Kelly.

Produced by Thomasville Pictures, “One Way” follows Freddy (Baker), who goes on the lam with a bag of cash after a robbery by his crime boss goes wrong.

Film industry relations between China and Europe have been kept alive throughout the coronavirus outbreak by Bridging The Dragon, an informal trade organization now in its sixth year.

After its regular event held during the Berlin film festival in February, further seminars, presentations and mixers should have taken place in Cannes in May and in Beijing in November. Travel restrictions and the cancelation of in-person film festivals and markets put paid to those ideas.

Knowledge-sharing, Btd’s core concern, can be achieved online as millions of students around the world have learned. And re-conceiving the organization’s autumn event as a virtual conference, not only allowed the connections to be kept intact, but even to be expanded. A delegation of New Zealand producers joined the virtual event for the first time with some participating in another first, informal coaching sessions.

The autumn edition included 90 participants who gathered for a series...

London and Rome-based production company Blackbox Multimedia, recently co-founded by former Lionsgate COO Guy Avshalom with Italy’s Guido Brera and Roberta Cardarelli, is developing a slate of high-end skeins for the international market comprising “The Last Cop,” on which they’ve partnered with Keshet International, and also “Murder in Time,” based on a series of thrillers by U.S. writer Julie McElwain.

McElwain’s three “Murder in Time” books, published by Pegasus, revolve around tough FBI agent Kendra Donovan who goes rogue in London in an effort to assassinate the man who killed her team, only to end up in England in the 1800s. Up-and-coming British screenwriter Amanda Duke has written the series bible for this time-travel crime thriller that encapsulates “what Blackbox is trying to do,” says the company’s Head of Development Chiara Cardoso.

Concurrently, the company has also commissioned Spain’s Sergio Barrejon, who served as writer...

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The concept of knowing when you die is something the we, as humans, seem to focus on as wwe get older. It’s also been the subject of a number of films: from thrillers such as D.O.A., to comedies like The Bucket List… the idea of knowing when you die (and to a lesser extent “how” you die) is fascinating for filmmakers and audiences alike.

Brand-new British teen comedy 2:Hrs tells the story of budding graffiti artist and an expert slacker Tim (Harry Jarvis), who gets more than he bargained for when he convinces his two best friends, Vic and Alf, to skip a school trip. They stumble into a press conference being held by scientist Lena Eidelhorn (Siobhan Redmond) who is unveiling her latest invention,...

London-based agent also picks up Jemaine Clement comedy Humour Me.

London-based sales agent Reason8 has boosted its European Film Market (Efm) slate with two new acquisitions and has also scored its first deals on sci-fi A Rough Draft.

The company has picked up international rights to Sam Hoffman’s Humour Me, a comedy starring Jemaine Clement (Flight Of The Conchords) and Elliot Gould (Ocean’s Eleven) that is currently on release in the Us.

Director Hoffman is the creator of popular web series Old Jews Telling Jokes, which has since been adapted into a TV series.

Reason8 has also picked up children’s fantasy adventure 2:hrs, which is written by Roland Moore and stars 2017 Children’s Bafta winner Alhaji Fofana. The film tells the story of a slacker schoolboy who discovers that he only has two hours left to live. Producers are Andromeda Godfrey and Diana Juhr-De Benedetti.

Separately, Reason8 has also inked multiple deals on its upcoming fantasy thriller A Rough Draft, which it is screening in the market in Berlin. Ahead of the film’s release via Sony/Columbia in Russia on March 15, the film has now sold to German-speaking Europe (Capelight Pictures), Baltics (Acme), Malaysia (Suraya Filem), and Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan (Purple Plan).

Reason8’s Efm slate also includes Gareth Tunley’s The Ghoul, Anton Sigurdsson’s Women and Easter European comedy Dzidzio Contrabass.

Exclusive: The star of Paramount-mgm’s late summer release Ben-Hur is at the Cannes television market in a new role as producer with rights to a pair of prestige projects.

Cysa Productions has optioned television rights to BAFTA-winning writer Jennifer Majka’s The Architect, an original series that explores how and why we live.

The Architect is being conceived as an international co-production of ten one-hour episodes a season that kicks off in London in the 1950s and 1960s as architect Jack Tanner works on the reconstruction of postwar London.

The first season will chart how the ambitious era of modern architecture shaped lives following the ravages of WW2 and production will relocate to other cities around the world in subsequent seasons.

Huston will produce alongside his Cysa partner and former agent, Abi Harris, and Cysa will develop and produce the series with Majka.

The latter’s writing credits include The Bigger Picture, for which she...