Hulu has revealed the official trailer and key art for the UK series Dope Girls, from Sony Pictures Television. The six-part period drama premieres on Tuesday, July 29.
The Dope Girls cast includes Emmy-nominated Julianne Nicholson, Eliza Scanlen, Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher, Geraldine James, Michael Duke, and Ian Bonar.
In the aftermath of WWI, London is changing as returning soldiers from the front find a society changed by a newly empowered generation of women.
In Soho’s emerging underground club scene, women begin to seize opportunities, both legal and illegal, and shape the nightlife industry.
Creators Polly Stenham and Alex Warren and director Shannon Murphy acted as executive producers alongside Kate Crowther and Jane Tranter from Bad Wolf, and Michael Lesslie for Storyteller Productions, with Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC.
Other writers on the series included Matthew Barry, who also acted as executive producer, and writers Matthew Jacobs Morgan and Xiao Tang.
The Dope Girls cast includes Emmy-nominated Julianne Nicholson, Eliza Scanlen, Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher, Geraldine James, Michael Duke, and Ian Bonar.
In the aftermath of WWI, London is changing as returning soldiers from the front find a society changed by a newly empowered generation of women.
In Soho’s emerging underground club scene, women begin to seize opportunities, both legal and illegal, and shape the nightlife industry.
Creators Polly Stenham and Alex Warren and director Shannon Murphy acted as executive producers alongside Kate Crowther and Jane Tranter from Bad Wolf, and Michael Lesslie for Storyteller Productions, with Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC.
Other writers on the series included Matthew Barry, who also acted as executive producer, and writers Matthew Jacobs Morgan and Xiao Tang.
- 7/22/2025
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
The BFI and BAFTA have unveiled the 2024 intake for its 10th BFI Flare x BAFTA professional development program, supporting six emerging Lgbtqia+ creatives working on their debuts in film and TV.
They comprise writer and performer Travis Alabanza, creative producer Isabella Bassett, actor and writer Zak Ghazi-Torbati, filmmaker Cherish Oteka, writer and actor Miles Sloman and screenwriter and director Charlie Tidmas. (see full bios below)
The participants benefit from industry mentorship, bespoke events and workshops at BAFTA and BFI as well as wellbeing and career coaching and access to BAFTA Connect, the academy’s membership programme for emerging and mid-level talent.
They will also be given networking opportunities during the BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival, running from March 13 to 24 March.
BFI and BAFTA noted that the festival’s opening night film, Layla, was created by two alumni of the scheme.
“The BFI Flare x BAFTA mentorship had a profound impact on my career and,...
They comprise writer and performer Travis Alabanza, creative producer Isabella Bassett, actor and writer Zak Ghazi-Torbati, filmmaker Cherish Oteka, writer and actor Miles Sloman and screenwriter and director Charlie Tidmas. (see full bios below)
The participants benefit from industry mentorship, bespoke events and workshops at BAFTA and BFI as well as wellbeing and career coaching and access to BAFTA Connect, the academy’s membership programme for emerging and mid-level talent.
They will also be given networking opportunities during the BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival, running from March 13 to 24 March.
BFI and BAFTA noted that the festival’s opening night film, Layla, was created by two alumni of the scheme.
“The BFI Flare x BAFTA mentorship had a profound impact on my career and,...
- 3/12/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) and Eliza Scanlen (Sharp Objects) have landed the lead roles in the BBC’s upcoming crime drama series Dope Girls, we can reveal.
Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher and Geraldine James have also landed major parts in the series, which we first told you about back in March. At the time, our sources said the BBC sees Dope Girls as a spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders, which ended last year.
Filming on the show, which is set in London’s Soho in the early 20th century, when female gangs ran the clubs, drugs and moonshine, is now underway. It will launch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, and comes from Polly Stenham and Alex Warren (Eleanor).
Nicholson will play Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-World War One London, embracing a life...
Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher and Geraldine James have also landed major parts in the series, which we first told you about back in March. At the time, our sources said the BBC sees Dope Girls as a spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders, which ended last year.
Filming on the show, which is set in London’s Soho in the early 20th century, when female gangs ran the clubs, drugs and moonshine, is now underway. It will launch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, and comes from Polly Stenham and Alex Warren (Eleanor).
Nicholson will play Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-World War One London, embracing a life...
- 11/15/2023
- by Rosy Cordero, Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The BBC is delving into the history of Soho’s criminal underworld for its next big-budget drama series.
Dope Girls will be a six-part series from His Dark Materials producer Bad Wolf for BBC One.
Our sources say the BBC sees Dope Girls as a spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders, and Bad Wolf is understood to be in early stage discussions with U.S. co-production partners and global streaming services.
Polly Stenham and Alex Warren (Eleanor) are writing Dope Girls, which is inspired by Marek Kohn’s non-fiction book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground.
Full plot details haven’t been revealed but we understand it follows the birth of the nightclub scene in London’s Soho. The series will mix elements of the fact-based research of Kohn’s book with fictional characters and storylines, exploring all aspects of the criminal...
Dope Girls will be a six-part series from His Dark Materials producer Bad Wolf for BBC One.
Our sources say the BBC sees Dope Girls as a spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders, and Bad Wolf is understood to be in early stage discussions with U.S. co-production partners and global streaming services.
Polly Stenham and Alex Warren (Eleanor) are writing Dope Girls, which is inspired by Marek Kohn’s non-fiction book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground.
Full plot details haven’t been revealed but we understand it follows the birth of the nightclub scene in London’s Soho. The series will mix elements of the fact-based research of Kohn’s book with fictional characters and storylines, exploring all aspects of the criminal...
- 3/20/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The stars of film and television came together tonight to celebrate the official kickoff to the 2023 awards season at the Golden Globes.
Held at the Beverly Hilton, the HFPA’s gala event was attended by directors Rian Johnson, Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann and Sheryl Lee Ralph, Austin Butler, Viola Davis, Michelle Williams, Margot Robbie, Selena Gomez, Jenna Ortega, Jennifer Coolidge, Jamie Lee Curtis and many more who all walked a tented red carpet due to torrential rains in Los Angeles.
The three-hour NBC telecast was hosted by Jerrod Carmichael, and Golden Globe winner and six-time nominee Eddie Murphy will receive the 2023 Cecil B. DeMille Award. Five-time Golden Globe winner and 16-time nominee Ryan Murphy will receive the Carol Burnett Award.
Inside the ballroom, the stars will sat down to a three-course meal starting with a grapefruit salad then Icelandic salmon or butternut squash for the entrée and finishing off with a limoncello dome for dessert.
Held at the Beverly Hilton, the HFPA’s gala event was attended by directors Rian Johnson, Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann and Sheryl Lee Ralph, Austin Butler, Viola Davis, Michelle Williams, Margot Robbie, Selena Gomez, Jenna Ortega, Jennifer Coolidge, Jamie Lee Curtis and many more who all walked a tented red carpet due to torrential rains in Los Angeles.
The three-hour NBC telecast was hosted by Jerrod Carmichael, and Golden Globe winner and six-time nominee Eddie Murphy will receive the 2023 Cecil B. DeMille Award. Five-time Golden Globe winner and 16-time nominee Ryan Murphy will receive the Carol Burnett Award.
Inside the ballroom, the stars will sat down to a three-course meal starting with a grapefruit salad then Icelandic salmon or butternut squash for the entrée and finishing off with a limoncello dome for dessert.
- 1/10/2023
- by Robert Lang
- Deadline Film + TV
The Rig Trailer — Prime Video‘s The Rig (2023) movie trailer has been released. The Rig trailer stars Emily Hampshire, Iain Glen, Martin Compston, Mark Bonnar, Rochenda Sandall, Owen Teale, Richard Pepple, Calvin Demba, and Emun Elliott. Crew John Strickland and Alex Holmes directed The Rig. David Macpherson, Matthew Jacobs Morgan, and Meg Salter wrote [...]
Continue reading: The Rig (2023) TV Show Trailer: Iain Glen Struggles to Survive a Supernatural Mist on a Oil Rig [Prime Video]...
Continue reading: The Rig (2023) TV Show Trailer: Iain Glen Struggles to Survive a Supernatural Mist on a Oil Rig [Prime Video]...
- 11/30/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Amazon’s Prime Video has announced a January 6th premiere date for the supernatural thriller series The Rig, and along with that announcement comes the release of a trailer for the show! You can check it out in the embed above. John Strickland and Alex Holmes directed the six-part show from scripts by Meg Salter, Matthew Jacobs Morgan, and series creator David Macpherson.
The Rig is set on the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea. When the crew is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through. The rig is hit by massive tremors, and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the shore and the outside world. As the crew endeavor to discover what’s driving this unknown force, a major accident forces them to ask questions about who they can really trust.
The Rig is set on the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea. When the crew is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through. The rig is hit by massive tremors, and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the shore and the outside world. As the crew endeavor to discover what’s driving this unknown force, a major accident forces them to ask questions about who they can really trust.
- 11/29/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
British production companies such as Left Bank, Carnival Pictures and Eleven Film have already signed up to a slew of new writing projects comprising the annual Brit List. Just 5 out of the 19 scripts this year are still without a production company attached.
The U.K. platform for emerging British screenwriting talent and their unproduced scripts unveiled its 2022 lineup at its first in-person gathering since 2019.
The Brit List was established in 2007 to discover writing talent from the U.K. that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. It has built a reputation for being the country’s leading showcase for emerging British voices. The list is compiled from recommendations by British production companies, talent agencies, sales companies, financiers, distributors and broadcasters.
Scripts need a minimum of 6 recommendations for inclusion. This year’s list features 19 scripts in total, with almost half by female writers. This year, more than 40 of writers are diverse or from...
The U.K. platform for emerging British screenwriting talent and their unproduced scripts unveiled its 2022 lineup at its first in-person gathering since 2019.
The Brit List was established in 2007 to discover writing talent from the U.K. that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. It has built a reputation for being the country’s leading showcase for emerging British voices. The list is compiled from recommendations by British production companies, talent agencies, sales companies, financiers, distributors and broadcasters.
Scripts need a minimum of 6 recommendations for inclusion. This year’s list features 19 scripts in total, with almost half by female writers. This year, more than 40 of writers are diverse or from...
- 11/14/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
A comedy-drama series from Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films about an ambitious young model tops this year’s Brit List of the best unproduced TV and film scripts.
Issy Knowles’ Model Behaviour has landed seven recommendations to put it two ahead of the second-placed Hat Trick Mercurio series The Hoax, which is based on the true story of a lonely Parisian ambulance driver who faked his own heroic involvement in the 2015 Bataclan massacre.
Scroll down to see the full Brit List.
Sex Education producer Eleven Film has three projects on the list, while the Ringside Studios-backed Joi Productions has two. The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, ITV Studios-owned Tall Story Pictures, Banijay UK’s Kudos and Benedict Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch also have projects included. Just three are features.
Curtis Brown has the most clients on the list with five, with The Agency, Independent Talent Group, Lark Management and...
Issy Knowles’ Model Behaviour has landed seven recommendations to put it two ahead of the second-placed Hat Trick Mercurio series The Hoax, which is based on the true story of a lonely Parisian ambulance driver who faked his own heroic involvement in the 2015 Bataclan massacre.
Scroll down to see the full Brit List.
Sex Education producer Eleven Film has three projects on the list, while the Ringside Studios-backed Joi Productions has two. The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, ITV Studios-owned Tall Story Pictures, Banijay UK’s Kudos and Benedict Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch also have projects included. Just three are features.
Curtis Brown has the most clients on the list with five, with The Agency, Independent Talent Group, Lark Management and...
- 11/14/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Left Bank Pictures, Joi Productions projects feature on the 19-strong list.
Issy Knowles’ TV series Model Behaviour has topped the 2022 Brit List of unproduced scripts from emerging UK screenwriting talent, with new projects by Left Bank Pictures and Joi Productions also among the 19-strong list.
Model Behaviour is a comedy-drama about an ambitious young model who puts everything on the line to achieve her dream, only to discover that success isn’t everything she thought it would be.
Scroll down for the full Brit List 2022 selection
The title received 17 recommendations, which are compiled from UK production companies, talent agencies, sales companies,...
Issy Knowles’ TV series Model Behaviour has topped the 2022 Brit List of unproduced scripts from emerging UK screenwriting talent, with new projects by Left Bank Pictures and Joi Productions also among the 19-strong list.
Model Behaviour is a comedy-drama about an ambitious young model who puts everything on the line to achieve her dream, only to discover that success isn’t everything she thought it would be.
Scroll down for the full Brit List 2022 selection
The title received 17 recommendations, which are compiled from UK production companies, talent agencies, sales companies,...
- 11/14/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Britain’s Vertigo Films And Germany’s SquareOne Productions Team For Supernatural Drag Drama ‘Vamping’ British producer Vertigo Films and Germany’s SquareOne Productions, who collaborated on the successful StreetDance film franchise, are making a supernatural drama set in Berlin’s drag community. Vamping will run to eight parts and be aimed at young adults. It will follow a vampire community in the hedonistic, nocturnal LGBTQ+ club culture of Germany’s capital city through the eyes of young British performer Everett, who wakes up after a heavy night of celebratory partying to learn he has become a vampire. Matthew Jacobs Morgan (The Rig) – named as a rising star by Deadline last year – created the show, working alongside German multi-disciplinary artist and screenwriter Sophie-Yukiko Hasters, who is a central figure in Berlin’s Qtpoc (queer and trans person of color) community. SquareOne founder Al Munteanu and Vertigo co-founder Allan Niblo are...
- 4/20/2022
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The U.K.’s Vertigo Films and Germany’s SquareOne Productions are teaming on Young Adult focused supernatural drag drama “Vamping.”
Billed as a mix of “Pose” and “The Vampire Diaries,” the eight-part series is set against the backdrop of Berlin’s hedonistic, nocturnal LGBTQ+ club culture. It follows young British drag queen, Everett who, after a triumphant performance at Berlin’s hottest drag club, finds that he has unwittingly been turned into a vampire. He sets off to uncover the truth and finds himself the protagonist in an impending culture war between vampire tribes.
“Vamping” was created by the U.K.’s Matthew Jacobs Morgan (“The Rig”) and German-American multi-disciplinary artist and screenwriter Sophie-Yukiko Hasters. As a central figure of the Qtpoc (queer and trans people of colour) community in Berlin, on the series Sophie-Yukiko Hasters brings her experience of German Ballroom Culture; where she oversees the German faction...
Billed as a mix of “Pose” and “The Vampire Diaries,” the eight-part series is set against the backdrop of Berlin’s hedonistic, nocturnal LGBTQ+ club culture. It follows young British drag queen, Everett who, after a triumphant performance at Berlin’s hottest drag club, finds that he has unwittingly been turned into a vampire. He sets off to uncover the truth and finds himself the protagonist in an impending culture war between vampire tribes.
“Vamping” was created by the U.K.’s Matthew Jacobs Morgan (“The Rig”) and German-American multi-disciplinary artist and screenwriter Sophie-Yukiko Hasters. As a central figure of the Qtpoc (queer and trans people of colour) community in Berlin, on the series Sophie-Yukiko Hasters brings her experience of German Ballroom Culture; where she oversees the German faction...
- 4/20/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Inside Out, Canada’s largest 2Slgbtq+ film festival and single largest promoter and distributor of 2Slgbtq+ content in Canada, has announced eight new feature film projects that will participate in the festival’s fifth annual Finance Forum during the festival’s 31st year.
The Finance Forum, taking place online from May 31-June 4, during the festival (running May 27-June 6), will provide 2Slgbtq+-identified producers and/or producers creating 2Slgbtq+ content an opportunity to pitch their projects directly to top decision makers. All participating executives will be taking one-on-one meetings online with the creative teams.
Among those taking part are executives from the U.S.’s Neon, Bleecker Street, Killer Films, Cinetic Media, The Film Collaborative, Verve, Powderkeg Media, Little Punk, Symbolic Exchange, Chicago Media Angels, and GLAAD; the U.K.’s Protagonist Pictures and Bankside Films; France’s MK2 Films; Germany’s Films Boutique; and Canada’s CBC Films and WaZabi Films.
The Finance Forum, taking place online from May 31-June 4, during the festival (running May 27-June 6), will provide 2Slgbtq+-identified producers and/or producers creating 2Slgbtq+ content an opportunity to pitch their projects directly to top decision makers. All participating executives will be taking one-on-one meetings online with the creative teams.
Among those taking part are executives from the U.S.’s Neon, Bleecker Street, Killer Films, Cinetic Media, The Film Collaborative, Verve, Powderkeg Media, Little Punk, Symbolic Exchange, Chicago Media Angels, and GLAAD; the U.K.’s Protagonist Pictures and Bankside Films; France’s MK2 Films; Germany’s Films Boutique; and Canada’s CBC Films and WaZabi Films.
- 5/13/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Amazon has given the green light to supernatural thriller series The Rig, with John Strickland set to helm the six-part show.
The project comes from new writer David Macpherson and UK producer Wild Mercury Productions, which has credits including Troy: Fall Of A City and Humans season three.
The Rig will become the first Amazon Original filmed exclusively in Scotland when it shoots at FirstStage Studios, the new film and TV studio space in Edinburgh, next year.
Cast is currently being confirmed for the series, which is set onboard the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea. When the crew is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the shore and the outside world. As they endeavor to discover what’s driving this force,...
The project comes from new writer David Macpherson and UK producer Wild Mercury Productions, which has credits including Troy: Fall Of A City and Humans season three.
The Rig will become the first Amazon Original filmed exclusively in Scotland when it shoots at FirstStage Studios, the new film and TV studio space in Edinburgh, next year.
Cast is currently being confirmed for the series, which is set onboard the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea. When the crew is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the shore and the outside world. As they endeavor to discover what’s driving this force,...
- 11/3/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, Spain’s six-month state of emergency threatens already suffering cinemas, All 4 scores a pack of prestigious short films, ViacomCBS International Studios launches a dedicated kids’ content label, and Love Nature lands in the Nordics.
State Of Emergency
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Sunday that the country is heading back into a nationwide state of emergency for the next six months as new Covid-19 cases continue to skyrocket. The government will take the next two weeks to coordinate with regional governments on exactly what form the state of emergency will take, but an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew has been imposed nationwide, with regional governments allowed to move the confinement period one hour in either direction.
The new national curfew looks set to dent Spain’s already meagre box office revenues in 2020. “The regulation will destroy the possibility of normal third-session screenings of over two hours,...
State Of Emergency
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Sunday that the country is heading back into a nationwide state of emergency for the next six months as new Covid-19 cases continue to skyrocket. The government will take the next two weeks to coordinate with regional governments on exactly what form the state of emergency will take, but an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew has been imposed nationwide, with regional governments allowed to move the confinement period one hour in either direction.
The new national curfew looks set to dent Spain’s already meagre box office revenues in 2020. “The regulation will destroy the possibility of normal third-session screenings of over two hours,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Having starred in one of the year’s biggest and best films, The Dark Knight Rises, Michael Caine has two very promising films in which he’ll be returning to the big screen next year: the comedy/drama, Mr. Morgan’s Last Love, and the heist/thriller, Now You See Me.
Written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck (Helen, Mostly Martha), the first images of Caine and his co-stars in Mr. Morgan’s Last Love have made their way online.
“Mr. Morgan’S Last Love is the bittersweet tale of a lonely American widower in Paris who learns to love life again after a chance encounter with a beautiful and impulsive young woman. They both spend a short but precious time together – a time that touches their hearts and changes their lives.
From the day Pauline (Clémence Poesy) lends him a helping hand on the bus, the suicidal, stubborn Matthew Morgan...
Written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck (Helen, Mostly Martha), the first images of Caine and his co-stars in Mr. Morgan’s Last Love have made their way online.
“Mr. Morgan’S Last Love is the bittersweet tale of a lonely American widower in Paris who learns to love life again after a chance encounter with a beautiful and impulsive young woman. They both spend a short but precious time together – a time that touches their hearts and changes their lives.
From the day Pauline (Clémence Poesy) lends him a helping hand on the bus, the suicidal, stubborn Matthew Morgan...
- 10/19/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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