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News | Chelsea Kwakye & Ore Ogunbiyi’s ‘Taking Up Space’ from #Merky Books to be adapted for TV

February 16, 2020scenetvblog Comment

Reposted from the Bookseller. Click here to join our mailing list for more news like this. Killing Eve producer Sid Gentle Films has won the TV rights [...]

News | Sky pilots TV version of Spotify’s The Receipts Podcast as it experiments with new voices

October 25, 2019scenetvblog Comment

Now this is news we like to see! Reposted from Deadline. Sky has piloted a TV version of Spotify's no filter podcast The Receipts as [...]

News | Weruche Opia, Aml Ameen & Paapa Essiedu join cast of Michaela Coel’s BBC drama ‘January 22nd’

October 23, 2019scenetvblog Comment

Written by, starring and executive produced by Michaela Coel, 'January 22nd' is a fearless, frank and provocative drama that explores the question of sexual [...]

News | Lupita Nyong’o & Channel 4 go in search of forgotten Warrior Women in new documentary film

September 27, 2019September 27, 2019scenetvblog Comment

In an epic and revealing journey, one of the world’s most high profile actors will go in search of a remarkable but little [...]

Breaking Through The Lens: ten female filmmakers get ready to pitch their projects at Cannes Film Festival

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019scenetvblog Comment

Join our mailing list for more features and opportunities like this. The ‘Countdown to Cannes’ has begun for the team at Breaking Through The [...]

International Women’s Day: “There needs to be more space to celebrate Black British Women”

March 8, 2019May 14, 2019scenetvblog Comment

L-R: Genista Tate-Alexander, Christina Okorocha, Dalia Dias Black Women Off Screen & SceneTV celebrate black women in the creative industries for International Women’s [...]

News | Amma Asante to direct episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018scenetvblog Comment

(Image courtesy of MSNBC, photo by Hazel Thopmson). Now this is exciting news… It has been announced that the brilliant Amma Asante will join [...]

News | Anne Mensah joins Netflix to lead UK series content

November 13, 2018scenetvblog Comment

Reposted from Netflix Media Centre. Anne Mensah is joining Netflix as Vice President, Content, leading the scripted series content team focused on British [...]

News | Papa Essiedu, Luisa Omielan & Daniel Lawrence Taylor announced as 2018 BAFTA Breakthrough Brits

November 11, 2018scenetvblog Comment

L-R/ T-B: Papa Essiedu, Luisa Omielan, Daniel Lawrence Taylor, Ria Zmitrowicz, Chris Walley, Jessica Barden. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts [...]

News | Jodie Turner-Smith & Daniel Kaluuya to star in Lena Waithe’s ‘Queen & Slim’

November 9, 2018November 9, 2018scenetvblog Comment

Well, what do you we have here… Rising star Jodie Turner Smith has joined Daniel Kaluuya to lead Queen & Slim, a feature film written [...]

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