Exclusive: Peacock is developing a pilot for a raunchy social experiment format titled Sex in the Dark.
Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation is behind the pilot, which joins a number of Peacock shows on its unscripted development slate. The pilot was filmed late last year, we understand.
The show’s logline describes Sex in the Dark as a “radical new social experiment” and centers on one single person who is blindfolded or left completely in darkness as they embark on “intimacy tests” to judge their connection, chemistry and attraction with a number of different suitors.
After each round, one suitor will be eliminated. The show culminates in a final night in complete darkness, as the singleton bed-hops with the remaining suitors to see if smell, touch, physical connection and energy is all you need to fall in love.
Amy Dallmeyer, Ben Wicks and Lucy Palmer are EPs on the series from Expectation,...
Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation is behind the pilot, which joins a number of Peacock shows on its unscripted development slate. The pilot was filmed late last year, we understand.
The show’s logline describes Sex in the Dark as a “radical new social experiment” and centers on one single person who is blindfolded or left completely in darkness as they embark on “intimacy tests” to judge their connection, chemistry and attraction with a number of different suitors.
After each round, one suitor will be eliminated. The show culminates in a final night in complete darkness, as the singleton bed-hops with the remaining suitors to see if smell, touch, physical connection and energy is all you need to fall in love.
Amy Dallmeyer, Ben Wicks and Lucy Palmer are EPs on the series from Expectation,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Just as the Primetime Emmys recognize a slew of categories during a weekend devoted to celebrating the Creative Arts, so too do the BAFTAs. The BAFTA TV Craft Awards honor various achievements across 20 different categories. An even dozen of these are devoted to fictional programming, another six to factual, and four are in combined fields. Winners of these awards were handed out in a ceremony on Sunday, April 23, three weeks before the main event. (Here’s the full list of BAFTA TV Awards nominations.) Scroll down for the complete list of BAFTA TV Craft Award winners.
Fiction
Costume Design
“The Crown”
“Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared”
X – “The Essex Serpent”
“The English”
Director (Fiction)
Dearbhla Walsh, “Bad Sisters”
Hugo Blick, “The English”
Lucy Forbes, “This is Going to Hurt”
X – William Stefan Smith, “Top Boy”
Editing (Fiction)
“The Crown”
“Andor”
“Slow Horses”
X – “This is Going to Hurt”
Emerging Talent...
Fiction
Costume Design
“The Crown”
“Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared”
X – “The Essex Serpent”
“The English”
Director (Fiction)
Dearbhla Walsh, “Bad Sisters”
Hugo Blick, “The English”
Lucy Forbes, “This is Going to Hurt”
X – William Stefan Smith, “Top Boy”
Editing (Fiction)
“The Crown”
“Andor”
“Slow Horses”
X – “This is Going to Hurt”
Emerging Talent...
- 4/23/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Agatha Christie, the “Queen of Crime”, whose novels are still adapted for the screen with machine-like regularity, knew that the question in the title of her 1934 mystery Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? was too good to pass up. “You don’t know yet who Evans is going to be... Evans will come in due course,” she once wrote. “The title is fixed.” Well, after a century of intriguing readers, that central proposition is now being brought to television viewers in the form of a three-part Britbox series, starring, written and directed by Hugh Laurie.
Narnia’s Will Poulter steps into the Christieverse as Bobby Jones, a happy-go-lucky vicar’s son who finds a dying man during a round of golf. “Why didn’t they ask Evans?” the man splutters with his final breath and Bobby is thrust on the trail of murderers, kidnappers and dope fiends. He’s ably...
Narnia’s Will Poulter steps into the Christieverse as Bobby Jones, a happy-go-lucky vicar’s son who finds a dying man during a round of golf. “Why didn’t they ask Evans?” the man splutters with his final breath and Bobby is thrust on the trail of murderers, kidnappers and dope fiends. He’s ably...
- 4/10/2023
- by Nick Hilton
- The Independent - TV
Just as the Primetime Emmys recognize a slew of categories during a weekend devoted to celebrating the Creative Arts, so too do the BAFTAs. The BAFTA TV Craft Awards honor various achievements across 20 different categories. An even dozen of these are devoted to fictional programming, another six to factual, and four are in combined fields. Winners of these awards will be revealed during a ceremony on Sunday, April 23. That’s three weeks before the main event. (Here’s the full list of BAFTA TV Awards nominations.)
Fiction
Costume Design
“The Crown”
“Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared”
“The Essex Serpent”
“The English”
Director (Fiction)
Dearbhla Walsh, “Bad Sisters”
Hugo Blick, “The English”
Lucy Forbes, “This is Going to Hurt”
William Stefan Smith, “Top Boy”
Editing (Fiction)
“The Crown”
“Andor”
“Slow Horses”
“This is Going to Hurt”
Emerging Talent (Fiction)
Jack Rooke (writer), “Big Boys”
Lynette Linton (director), “My Name is Leon...
Fiction
Costume Design
“The Crown”
“Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared”
“The Essex Serpent”
“The English”
Director (Fiction)
Dearbhla Walsh, “Bad Sisters”
Hugo Blick, “The English”
Lucy Forbes, “This is Going to Hurt”
William Stefan Smith, “Top Boy”
Editing (Fiction)
“The Crown”
“Andor”
“Slow Horses”
“This is Going to Hurt”
Emerging Talent (Fiction)
Jack Rooke (writer), “Big Boys”
Lynette Linton (director), “My Name is Leon...
- 3/22/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
BBC Director-General Tim Davie has revealed plans for a “digital first” BBC as the broadcaster celebrates its hundredth year as well as revealing at hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cutbacks.
Davie said he plans to cut £200 million (250 million) from the budget due to the government’s decision to freeze the license fee, which funds the BBC. The freeze will create a £285m annual funding gap by 2027/28.
Of the £200 million, Davie said £50 million “is already baked into our current budgets” but the rest will have to be delivered by “stopping things and running the organisation better where we can.”
Part of that involves cutting headcount, Variety understands, which has prompted a response from broadcasting union Bectu, a number of whose members work within the BBC.
“We recognise the need for organisations to change and adapt and welcome the BBC’s commitment to step up to the challenges of a...
Davie said he plans to cut £200 million (250 million) from the budget due to the government’s decision to freeze the license fee, which funds the BBC. The freeze will create a £285m annual funding gap by 2027/28.
Of the £200 million, Davie said £50 million “is already baked into our current budgets” but the rest will have to be delivered by “stopping things and running the organisation better where we can.”
Part of that involves cutting headcount, Variety understands, which has prompted a response from broadcasting union Bectu, a number of whose members work within the BBC.
“We recognise the need for organisations to change and adapt and welcome the BBC’s commitment to step up to the challenges of a...
- 5/26/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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