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Home Team, the recently-launched TV and film production banner founded by The End of the F***ing World producer Dominic Buchanan and Mogul Mowgli producer Bennett McGhee, has made its first major hire. Jessica Hill has been appointed as senior development executive, joining the company after three years at Sister (Chernobyl, Gangs of London), where she was script executive on the upcoming HBO/Sky drama Landscapers and script editor on the BBC/Netflix series Giri/Haji.

Roll up, roll up, Insiders. The Deadline International team have once again been travelling the world to bring you the latest news and analysis from the global film and TV biz, with Mel and Zac both in the Middle East. Max and I actually found the TV world descending on London for once, so we didn’t have to go so far for access. Read on.

Two of Universal Studio Group’s TV divisions have struck a development deal with South Shore, the Cooking with the Stars producer run by former Twofour bosses Melanie Leach and Andrew Mackenzie.

Universal International Studios (UIS) has signed an exclusive deal with Home Team, the UK film and TV production outfit run by The End of the F***ing World exec Dominic Buchanan and Mogul Mowgli’s Bennett McGhee.

Home Team, the UK indie production house founded by Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee, has hired Jessica Hill as Senior Development Executive.

Jamie Lang Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee’s new production company Home Team has hired Jessica Hill as its new senior development executive, where she will support the producers in an effort to promote under-represented talent.Hill joins Home Team from Sister, where she spent three years and was script executive on HBO and Sky’s upcoming series “Landscapers” and the BBC and Netflix’s “Giri/Haji.”“Bennett and Dominic are dynamic producers with creative integrity and deservedly great relationships with talent,” she said in a release.

Dominic Buchanan, best known as the BAFTA-winning producer of Netflix/Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World, and Bennett McGhee, producer of the Riz Ahmed-starring Berlinale 2020 FIPRESCI winner Mogul Mowgli, have launched a new film and TV production company, Home Team. The central aim of Home Team, announced Wednesday, is to identity and develop underrepresented creatives, primarily —but not restricted —filmmakers of colour and women filmmakers of all ethnicities.

Manori Ravindran International EditorTwo of the U.K.’s top producers, Dominic Buchanan (pictured, right) and Bennett McGhee (left), have teamed up to launch a new film and TV production company.Home Team will focus on high-end, inclusive projects that champion underrepresented creatives and new voices, including filmmakers of color and female filmmakers from all backgrounds.Buchanan is executive producer on Netflix/Channel 4 drama “The End of the F***ing World,” while McGhee’s recent film “Mogul Mowgli,” starring Riz Ahmed, recently picked up the 2020 Fipresci prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and will soon play the London Film Festival.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorUK producers Dominic Buchanan (The End of The F***ing World) and Bennett McGhee (Mogul Mowgli) are launching film and TV firm Home Team with a focus on development and production of high-end features and TV series.The company is aiming to identify and develop under-represented creatives and new voices – primarily, but not restricted to, filmmakers of color and women filmmakers of all ethnicities, through interactive as well as traditional film and TV platforms.Projects on the development slate include a collaboration with BBC Films on Shola Amoo’s follow-up to feature The Last Tree; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny Ekaragha (The End of the F***ing World) and Danielle Ward (In the Long