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Ginny & Georgia commences filming for series three

Antonia Gentry (Candy Jar) and Brianne Howey (The Exorcist) star as Georgia and Ginny, a mother-daughter duo who have had to move across America, chased by Georgia’s unknown past.

Being raised by a teen-mother on the run hasn’t always been easy for 16-year-old Ginny and she suffers with her mental health whilst trying to navigate relationships and a new high school. Georgia soon meets the new love of her life, Paul Randolph (Scott Porter, Hart of Dixie), who just so happens to be the town mayor.

Netflix releases teaser for adaptation of generation-spanning magical realist novel One Hundred Years of Solitude

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The 16-part series will follow the multi-generational story of José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán’s family. When the two cousins wed against their families’ wishes, the two set out to establish a new town. Macondo plays host to future generations of Buendías, who live through love, madness and war.

The programme was shot in Colombia entirely in Spanish, with the support of García Márquez’s family. Claudio Cataño (A Thousand Fangs) appears in the teaser as the adult version of Colonel Aureliano Buendía.

Broadchurch creator to adapt Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Mystery for Netflix

Together with Chibnall’s screenwriting, Suzanne Mackie (The Crown) will executive produce the series with Good Omens’  Chris Sussman. Chris Sweeney (The Tourist, Back to Life) will direct.

There is no word on how closely the team will adapt the book, as recent adaptions of Agatha Christie’s work have opted to update the material for modern audiences.

RTS North West students learn the rule of three from industry experts

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“Get three takeaways from each discussion. Set yourself three skills to develop. Make three meaningful contacts.” This advice came from host Beth Hewitt, welcoming students to RTS North West’s Student Networking Day.

First up was a panel discussion, “Hidden roles in TV production”. Katie Bayman, with “one of the coolest jobs in TV”, according to session chair Lyndon Saunders, is a virtual studio developer.

Upper crust crims – working with Guy Ritchie on Netflix’s The Gentlemen

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Guy Ritchie’s debut film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, was a huge commercial hit, a British cockney geezer take on Tarantino that, for good or bad, set the template for laddish Brit movies.

The director is now returning to the world of gangsters but this time for the small screen, reimagining his 2019 movie, the crime action comedy The Gentlemen, for Netflix.

Netflix reveals first clips of Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton in Bridgerton series three

Each series of the Regency era drama sees a different sibling of the Bridgerton family enter the marriage market, with the events of ‘the season’ being heavily documented by their own version of Gossip Girl, Lady Whistledown. Series two saw serial-bachelor Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey, Crashing) finally attempt to settle down, and finding love in an unlikely place, with enemy Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley, Sex Education).

Freely enters the fray

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Two decades on from the launch of its big brother Freeview, can Freely enjoy the same success in a different TV landscape? Freely is a new service from the UK PSBs, due to launch in the second quarter of 2024. It will deliver free live and on-demand TV to the growing number of homes that receive their content via the internet to a smart TV.

Freely has already revealed its arc-and-two-dots brand identity, dubbed Freemoji, together with its electronic programme guide interface and information on how channels will be organised.