The Syndicate producer Rollem is developing short film Youthless into a TV series as one of its first projects since the passing of founder Kay Mellor. The Yorkshire, UK-based indie has optioned ...

Women in Film and Television UK (WFTV) has revealed the 13 emerging writers taking part in the WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab, which began on September 30 and runs through October 5. The 13 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Syndicate tells the story of five supermarket workers whose lottery ...

Women in Film and Television UK (WFTV) has unveiled the 2025 cohort currently taking part in the WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab, sponsored by Diageo. Now underway at The Hurst in Shropshire – the ...

Kay Mellor, creator of Fat Friends and Band of Gold, has died aged 71. Both of the beloved series were adapted into stage shows, with Fat Friends touring the UK before the pandemic, with a cast ...

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I’m trailing across a Bradford car park, in gale force winds and lashing rain, trying not to trip over cable wires as I climb aboard an old double-decker bus. A couple of make-up girls, huddled ...

The world stage premiere of the late Kay Mellor’s The Syndicate is slated for a UK tour lasting 15 weeks, running from April to July next year – and casting has now been revealed. The play is based on ...

Banijay Rights has announced BritBox UK, available as part of ITVX Premium, has acquired Fat Friends, the renowned Kay Mellor comedy-drama that first aired on British TV screens 23 years ago. Produced ...

The drama's three protagonists are all knocking on a bit and wondering if life can possibly be so resoundingly over. “I just want to feel like I used to feel,” said lollilop lady Gail. “Like I’m alive ...

BritBox UK, available as part of ITVX Premium, has acquired the Kay Mellor comedy drama Fat Friends from Banijay Rights. The series, which originally debuted on ITV1 in 2000, follows the lives of a ...