Directors Digest — Thursday 5 April 2018

BAFTA TV Awards, new hires and giant deals are just part of a busy week of news, which also saw some eye-opening pay gap information in the world of UK film. Read all about it in Directors Digest.  

Film

Major UK film studios have revealed significant gender pay gaps, Variety reports.

Helen Mirren has called for stunt performers to be eligible for Oscars. (Indiewire)

Meanwhile, reports have been circulating that Netflix are in talks to buy Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp studio. (The Verge)

Little White Lies looks at the complicated cinematic legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., fifty years after his death. 

Guillermo del Toro has signed an overall deal with Fox Searchlight. (Variety)

Television

The 2018 BAFTA TV Award nominees have been announced. Congratulations to all the great talent that worked on the nominated programmes!

Disney could acquire Sky News as part of the ongoing potential Fox-Sky takeover deal. (Variety)

Channel 4 has named new factual entertainment and sport commissioners, Televisual reports. 

Meanwhile, according to reports in Broadcast magazine, The closure of London Studios has buoyed BBC Studioworks. 

Deadline reports on Canneseries, the new TV festival on the Riviera that hopes to replicate the success of its silver-screen equivalent. 

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