Exclusive: Richard Gadd, the creator and star of hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, has faced questions about his professional conduct after dating a transgender actress who auditioned for his show.
The actor was investigated and ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing by Baby Reindeer producer Clerkenwell Films after a romantic liaison in 2021 with Reece Lyons, who was interested in playing the role of Gadd’s ex-girlfriend Teri in the stalker drama.
Lyons went public with her experience on Twitter (now X) soon after Baby Reindeer premiered. She did not name Gadd or directly reference Baby Reindeer, but Deadline has verified his identity. Gadd declined to comment, while Lyons did not wish to comment beyond her X thread.
Lyons made clear that she does not believe she was a victim of abuse, but said she was “hurt” by Gadd “conflating a work opportunity with a dating dynamic.” Clerkenwell Films concluded that Gadd had acted appropriately,...
The actor was investigated and ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing by Baby Reindeer producer Clerkenwell Films after a romantic liaison in 2021 with Reece Lyons, who was interested in playing the role of Gadd’s ex-girlfriend Teri in the stalker drama.
Lyons went public with her experience on Twitter (now X) soon after Baby Reindeer premiered. She did not name Gadd or directly reference Baby Reindeer, but Deadline has verified his identity. Gadd declined to comment, while Lyons did not wish to comment beyond her X thread.
Lyons made clear that she does not believe she was a victim of abuse, but said she was “hurt” by Gadd “conflating a work opportunity with a dating dynamic.” Clerkenwell Films concluded that Gadd had acted appropriately,...
- 5/3/2024
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer” is a new miniseries with a twist.
“Baby Reindeer,” released April 11, is based on Scottish comedian, actor and writer Richard Gadd’s own experience with a stalker and sexual predator in his 20s. Gadd stars as Donny Dunn, who is stalked by a woman named Martha he met in a bar he worked at.
The official Netflix synopsis reads, “When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives.”
Gadd said he was stalked for four years by a woman who called him “Baby Reindeer.” At the beginning, Gadd and his friends didn’t think much of it, until things started to amp up. He was harassed with 41,071 emails, 350 hours of voicemail, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages and 106 pages of letters. She also sent him gifts including a reindeer toy, sleeping pills, a woolly hat and boxer shorts.
“Baby Reindeer,” released April 11, is based on Scottish comedian, actor and writer Richard Gadd’s own experience with a stalker and sexual predator in his 20s. Gadd stars as Donny Dunn, who is stalked by a woman named Martha he met in a bar he worked at.
The official Netflix synopsis reads, “When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives.”
Gadd said he was stalked for four years by a woman who called him “Baby Reindeer.” At the beginning, Gadd and his friends didn’t think much of it, until things started to amp up. He was harassed with 41,071 emails, 350 hours of voicemail, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages and 106 pages of letters. She also sent him gifts including a reindeer toy, sleeping pills, a woolly hat and boxer shorts.
- 4/17/2024
- by Lexi Carson
- Variety Film + TV
Former ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘The Crown’ actor, Matt Smith, has signed on to star and exec produce the series adaptation of Nick Cave’s ‘The Death of Bunny Munro.’
The darkly comic series will consist of six episodes is written by Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and to be directed by Isabella Eklöf.
Smith will play the titular role of Bunny Munro, a sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario whose life is derailed by his wife Libby’s suicide. Together with 9-year-old son Bunny Junior, he embarks on an increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to handle their grief. Bunny tries to seduce any woman he meets, Bunny Junior by talking to the ghost of his mother as he slowly realizes his father is a mess.
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Eklöf and Cave...
The darkly comic series will consist of six episodes is written by Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and to be directed by Isabella Eklöf.
Smith will play the titular role of Bunny Munro, a sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario whose life is derailed by his wife Libby’s suicide. Together with 9-year-old son Bunny Junior, he embarks on an increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to handle their grief. Bunny tries to seduce any woman he meets, Bunny Junior by talking to the ghost of his mother as he slowly realizes his father is a mess.
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Eklöf and Cave...
- 11/29/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
House of the Dragon and The Crown actor Matt Smith has signed on to star in and executive produce The Death of Bunny Munro, a limited series adaptation of Nick Cave’s darkly comic novel of the same name.
The six-part series, written by Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and to be directed by Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday) is being produced by Clerkenwell Films (The End of the F***ing World, Misfits) in association with Sky Studios. The series is set to begin filming next Spring. Sky Atlantic and streaming service Now will carry the show in the U.K., with NBCUniversal Global Distribution handling international sales on behalf of Sky Studios. Sky is a subsidary of NBCUniversal parent company Comcast. Clerkenwell Films are wholly owned by BBC Studios.
Smith will play the titular role of Bunny Munro, a sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario whose life is...
The six-part series, written by Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and to be directed by Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday) is being produced by Clerkenwell Films (The End of the F***ing World, Misfits) in association with Sky Studios. The series is set to begin filming next Spring. Sky Atlantic and streaming service Now will carry the show in the U.K., with NBCUniversal Global Distribution handling international sales on behalf of Sky Studios. Sky is a subsidary of NBCUniversal parent company Comcast. Clerkenwell Films are wholly owned by BBC Studios.
Smith will play the titular role of Bunny Munro, a sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario whose life is...
- 11/28/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Matt Smith is to star in and EP a Sky adaptation of Nick Cave’s sophomore novel The Death of Bunny Munro.
Smith will play the titular role. Following his wife Libby’s suicide, the sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting. Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior, he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across south England as the two struggle to contain their grief in different ways.
An adaptation of iconic singer Cave’s second novel, the project is being written by BAFTA-winning Somewhere Boy scribe Pete Jackson for End of The F***ing World indie Clerkenwell Films in association with Sky Studios. Cave will EP with former Doctor Who star Smith and numerous others. The Red Right Hand singer has written four books including, most recently, Faith, Hope and Carnage,...
Smith will play the titular role. Following his wife Libby’s suicide, the sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting. Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior, he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across south England as the two struggle to contain their grief in different ways.
An adaptation of iconic singer Cave’s second novel, the project is being written by BAFTA-winning Somewhere Boy scribe Pete Jackson for End of The F***ing World indie Clerkenwell Films in association with Sky Studios. Cave will EP with former Doctor Who star Smith and numerous others. The Red Right Hand singer has written four books including, most recently, Faith, Hope and Carnage,...
- 11/28/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Generation star Nava Mau will star in Netflix’s upcoming drama series Baby Reindeer.
The streaming series is based in writer-creator Richard Gadd’s real life experience of a warped relationship that heavily impacted him and ultimately forced him to face a dark buried trauma.
Mau will play Teri, the partner of Donny (Gadd), who becomes embroiled in his relationship with his stalker Martha, who will be played by Jessica Gunning, as we revealed at the time.
Mau was a key member of the ensemble cast that made up the Lena Dunham-produced Generation (stylized Genera+ion), which is now on Tubi after Warner Bros. Discovery pulled it from streamer HBO Max as it sought to cut costs and sell many of the shows made for the platform.
She has also appeared in Waking Hour and Work.
Shooting On Baby Reindeer began back in August, and has now wrapped.
The streaming series is based in writer-creator Richard Gadd’s real life experience of a warped relationship that heavily impacted him and ultimately forced him to face a dark buried trauma.
Mau will play Teri, the partner of Donny (Gadd), who becomes embroiled in his relationship with his stalker Martha, who will be played by Jessica Gunning, as we revealed at the time.
Mau was a key member of the ensemble cast that made up the Lena Dunham-produced Generation (stylized Genera+ion), which is now on Tubi after Warner Bros. Discovery pulled it from streamer HBO Max as it sought to cut costs and sell many of the shows made for the platform.
She has also appeared in Waking Hour and Work.
Shooting On Baby Reindeer began back in August, and has now wrapped.
- 3/2/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix’s British drama series Baby Reindeer has gone into production this week, and Deadline can reveal Jessica Gunning has landed a lead role opposite show creator Richard Gadd.
Gunning will play Martha, the female stalker at the center of Gadd’s story, which began life as a one-man stage play at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and explores how the warped relationship impacted him and ultimately forced him to face a dark buried trauma. The play won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement at an Affiliate Theatre.
Gunning is known for roles in Channel 4 comedy Back, Matthew Warchus picture Pride and more recently Jessica Swale’s Gemma Arterton-starring Summerland.
The End of the F*cking World producer Clerkenwell Films is making Baby Reindeer, which Netflix UK VP of Original Series Anne Mensah yesterday at the Edinburgh TV Festival revealed had gone into production.
Weronika Tofilska is...
Gunning will play Martha, the female stalker at the center of Gadd’s story, which began life as a one-man stage play at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and explores how the warped relationship impacted him and ultimately forced him to face a dark buried trauma. The play won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement at an Affiliate Theatre.
Gunning is known for roles in Channel 4 comedy Back, Matthew Warchus picture Pride and more recently Jessica Swale’s Gemma Arterton-starring Summerland.
The End of the F*cking World producer Clerkenwell Films is making Baby Reindeer, which Netflix UK VP of Original Series Anne Mensah yesterday at the Edinburgh TV Festival revealed had gone into production.
Weronika Tofilska is...
- 8/26/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu and ITV have partnered on a new zombie apocalypse comedy set on a canal boat in Birmingham, England.
The digital platform and youth skewing network ITV2 have ordered Zomboat!, a six-part comedy from ITV-owned Noho Film & Television, the company behind Prime Suspect 1973 and Channel 4 royal comedy The Windsors.
The series will launch on ITV2 this autumn and on Hulu later this year. It marks the latest collaboration between the two companies, which previously partnered on period prostitution drama Harlots.
It stars White Gold’s Leah Brotherhead, Doctor Who’s Hamza Jeetooa, White Dragon’s Ryan McKen and Downton Abbey’s Cara Theobold with Line of Duty and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s Rochenda Sandall guest starring.
Created by The Windsors and Flack writer Adam Miller and Will Hartley, who starred on BBC1’s Tracey Breaks The News alongside Tracey Ullman, the pair write alongside Please Like Me’s Liz Doran.
The digital platform and youth skewing network ITV2 have ordered Zomboat!, a six-part comedy from ITV-owned Noho Film & Television, the company behind Prime Suspect 1973 and Channel 4 royal comedy The Windsors.
The series will launch on ITV2 this autumn and on Hulu later this year. It marks the latest collaboration between the two companies, which previously partnered on period prostitution drama Harlots.
It stars White Gold’s Leah Brotherhead, Doctor Who’s Hamza Jeetooa, White Dragon’s Ryan McKen and Downton Abbey’s Cara Theobold with Line of Duty and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s Rochenda Sandall guest starring.
Created by The Windsors and Flack writer Adam Miller and Will Hartley, who starred on BBC1’s Tracey Breaks The News alongside Tracey Ullman, the pair write alongside Please Like Me’s Liz Doran.
- 5/23/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Among new members are Maren Ade, Hugh Grant and Hayley Squires.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has revealed its 2018 intake of new members drawn from the film, TV and games industry.
Among the 386 new members are actors Hugh Grant, Willem Dafoe and Hayley Squires, directors Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann), Daniel Kokotajlo (Apostasy) and Michael Pearce (Beast), film execs Shana Eddy-Grouf (Studiocanal) and Katie Goodson-Thomas (Fox Searchlight), and La La Land producers Jordan Horowitz and Fred Berger.
Former UK and Ireland Screen Stars of Tomorrow in the new intake include producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly and actor Jessie Barden.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has revealed its 2018 intake of new members drawn from the film, TV and games industry.
Among the 386 new members are actors Hugh Grant, Willem Dafoe and Hayley Squires, directors Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann), Daniel Kokotajlo (Apostasy) and Michael Pearce (Beast), film execs Shana Eddy-Grouf (Studiocanal) and Katie Goodson-Thomas (Fox Searchlight), and La La Land producers Jordan Horowitz and Fred Berger.
Former UK and Ireland Screen Stars of Tomorrow in the new intake include producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly and actor Jessie Barden.
- 12/12/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
A David Tennant-fronted comedy drama, a multi-character sitcom from the writer of Paddington 2, a comedy crime thriller featuring Episodes’ Daisy Haggard and a raft of new talent form part of the BBC’s latest comedy drive.
The British public broadcaster has unveiled its new slate of comedies across its channels BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four. This comes as BBC comedy chief Shane Allen tells Deadline that by making shows that are quintessentially British, they are increasingly traveling to the U.S. and internationally without the need to be remade.
On BBC One, Paddington 2’s Simon Farnaby and his colleagues behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland are producing Ghosts, a multi-character sitcom. Farnaby, Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are working with Monumental Television on the six-part horror comedy, which follows a group of restless spirits squabbling in a crumbling country house.
The British public broadcaster has unveiled its new slate of comedies across its channels BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four. This comes as BBC comedy chief Shane Allen tells Deadline that by making shows that are quintessentially British, they are increasingly traveling to the U.S. and internationally without the need to be remade.
On BBC One, Paddington 2’s Simon Farnaby and his colleagues behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland are producing Ghosts, a multi-character sitcom. Farnaby, Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are working with Monumental Television on the six-part horror comedy, which follows a group of restless spirits squabbling in a crumbling country house.
- 6/19/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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