Playground Entertainment’s Colin Callender casts new light on return of Wolf Hall →

February 28, 2024 by C21 in Wolf Hall

The Mirror & the Light is the final instalment of late author Hilary Mantel’s trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, chief advisor to King Henry VIII in sixteenth century England.

The first two novels were adapted for the BBC and PBS Masterpiece in 2015 by writer Peter Straughan and director Peter Kosminsky, via Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment and All3Media’s Company Pictures.

Channel 5 orders period novel adaptation The Hardacres from Playground →

July 25, 2023 by C21 in The Hardacres

Paramount-owned Channel 5 in the UK has commissioned rags-to-riches family drama The Hardacres, based on author CL Skelton’s series of novels The Hardacre Saga.

The six-part series is being produced by New York- and London-based prodco Playground (All Creatures Great & Small), in association with Screen Ireland, Red Berry Productions and Newgrange Pictures. Banijay Rights is handling international distribution.

Playground Entertainment promotes Scott Huff, David Stern to joint MDs →

April 25, 2023 by C21 in Colin Callender

New York- and London-based production company Playground Entertainment has promoted Scott Huff and David Stern to joint MDs, giving them oversight of day-to-day operations as founder and executive chairman Colin Callender continues to focus to corporate strategy, coproductions and talent relationships. Huff and Stern will be charged with accelerating the growth of the transatlantic company, which has produced projects including BBC Two drama Wolf Hall, BBC/Starz crime series The Missing and Amazon’s King Lear adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins.