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Sion Daniel Young, Fra Fee, Elizabeth Berrington, Sharon D Clarke and Maria Doyle Kennedy to star in new BBC drama Lost Boys and Fairies

Filming has now begun in and around Cardiff

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Dancers – Open casting call for a major Leeds television project.

We are searching for people passionate about dance within Yorkshire to feature in a major Channel 4 drama series shooting early 2023.

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BBC announces new drama commission, Lost Boys and Fairies, to be filmed and set in Wales

Leeds-based indie Duck Soup Films will produce as their first commission for BBC One and BBC iPlayer

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NFTS / 4Skills / Duck Soup: Dance School Workshops

Ten Leeds based people will get the chance of a lifetime, funded by 4Skills and trained by NFTS Leeds to start a new career.

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Channel 4 orders Dance School drama from Duck Soup

Channel 4 has commissioned Dance School (w/t), a new 8×30’ coming-of-age drama series from Duck Soup Films. 

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Duck Soup Films hires Kate Larking as HoP

Duck Soup Films has hired experienced line producer Kate Larking as head of production.

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Production Training Scheme 2022

Ch4 Production Training Scheme is offering paid placements in TV Drama for entry level talent who want to break into media and are passionate about making TV. One of them will be at Duck Soup Films.

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Big Talk and Film 4 execs join Duck Soup

C4 investment sparks ’tipping point’ for scripted business.

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Big Talk’s Northern lead joins Duck Soup Films

Duck Soup Films has announced 2 new Executive Producer appointments, including Kathryn O’Connor.

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UK’s Duck Soup Films hires former Film4, Big Talk execs

UK production company Duck Soup Films is adding former Film4 executive Celine Coulson and former Big Talk executive Kathryn O’Connor to its team as executive producers.

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Big Talk, Film4 execs jump into Duck Soup

Duck Soup Films, the UK prodco set up by producers Libby Durdy, Bekki Wray Rogers and Jessica Holyland, has hired two execs from Big Talk and Film4.

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Leeds-based production company Duck Soup Films joins Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund

Channel 4 today announced that Duck Soup Films will join the broadcaster’s Indie Growth Fund.

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Duck Soup joins C4 Indie Growth Fund

Leeds-based drama indie was founded in 2015 by This is England and Utopia producer.

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Duck Soup Films in Leeds becomes latest to join Channel 4 fund initiative

National broadcaster Channel 4 has announced that Duck Soup Films will join its Indie Growth Fund.

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YACF unveils debut development slate

The BFI's Young Audiences Content Fund has revealed Duck Soup project Dance School is among 14 projects to be awarded funding from the YACF development pot. Dance School is an exciting drama which follows a group of ethnically and socio-economically diverse students aged 16-25 attending a world-renowned Dance School in Chapeltown, Leeds.

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Baby, It's Cold Outside

Listen to Baby, Its Cold Outside - a podcast starring Chris O'Dowd and Anne-Marie Duff. Written by award winning screenwriter Regina Moriarty, produced by Ben Walker for Storyglass and developed by Duck Soup Films.

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Chris O’Dowd & Anne-Marie Duff To Front Fremantle Scripted Podcast ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’

Bridesmaids star Chris O’Dowd and Shameless’ Anne-Marie Duff are to front Baby It’s Cold Outside, the first podcast to emerge from Fremantle’s scripted podcast label Storyglass.

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Fremantle Establishes Scripted Podcast Label

Fremantle is launching a new scripted podcast label, Storyglass, created as a partnership between the company’s Shotglass label in the U.K. and the global drama division.

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C4 puts Leeds 'on the media map'

Broadcaster’s choice of national HQ and creative hubs cements its distinctive and risk-taking ethos, indies say

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‘Bodyguard’ Producer World Productions Adapting “Chalk & Cheese’ Crime-Fighting Novel ‘Art Of Death’

Bodyguard producer World Productions is teeing up a “chalk-and-cheese” crime-fighting duo as it looks to build on the success of the BBC’s most successful new drama in a decade.

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Drama indies staff up

Kudos and Duck Soup Films make development hires

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Creative England alum samples Duck Soup

FremantleMedia-backed UK prodco Duck Soup Films has appointed a former Creative England executive as development executive.

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Living the work/life dream in Leeds

As decision-time approaches over the host city for the new C4 National HQ, Leeds’ movers and shakers describe their experiences of growing a business in the city

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Duck Soup films flocks to Leeds

Independent television and film production company Duck Soup Films is the latest addition to the creative community at The Round Foundry estate in Holbeck, Leeds.

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UK indie Duck Soup Films appoints head of development

UK production outfit Duck Soup Films has appointed Jackie Okwera to the newly established role of head of development.

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Production group takes stake in Duck Soup Films

The owners of Leeds-based scripted TV and film business Duck Soup Films have sold a 25 per cent stake to production company FremantleMedia.

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Fremantle Media invests in Leeds indie

RTL firm takes 25% stake in Duck Soup

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FremantleMedia invests in scripted indie Duck Soup Films

FremantleMedia has taken a 25% stake in drama and film indie Duck Soup Films.

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Warp collaborators launch Duck Soup

Two UK producers who have ties to Warp Films are launching a new production company, Duck Soup.

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