EXCLUSIVE: It was the place where American viewers were always glad they came — and now the Cheers bar is hoping to open its doors to Brits. Deadline can reveal that Big Talk Studios, the producer behind Stephen Merchant's BBC/Amazon series The Outlaws, is pitching a UK version of NBC's iconic…

Freddie Salem, who played guitar and sang for The Outlaws in the late 1970s and ’80s, has died of cancer. He was 70. The news was announced on the Facebook page of his current project, Freddie Salem & Lonewolf, but it did not provide a date of death. “This morning, the heavens parted for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Merchant has revealed that The Outlaws Season 3 could be the comedy crime thriller’s swansong. The creator of the BBC/Amazon hit said “never say never” on making more but “the problem at the moment is whenever I finish a project I feel a bit burned out and need to take some…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Talk Studios, producer of Amazon/BBC series The Outlaws, has turned to Brontë Film & TV to find its first creative director of drama. Jenny van der Lande will join Big Talk in the newly-created role having developed all six seasons of J.K. Rowling’s BBC/Max series Strike, starring…

Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning has been generating headlines aplenty for her creepy turn as Martha in Netflix’s stalking thriller series, but she’s imminently set to return to screens on both sides of the pond in the third season of the BBC/Amazon’s The Outlaws. Gunning talked the Creative…

EXCLUSIVE: The Outlaws producer Big Talk Studios is developing its first TV thriller, a high-stakes series about a drug-smuggling submarine. Big Talk boss Kenton Allen described Vulture as a cross between Below Deck and Narcos. Penned by BAFTA-nominated Cyberbully writer David Lobatto, the…

Comedy thriller The Outlaws will be back for a third season. Prime Video and BBC One today announced the renewal of the series from Stephen Merchant (The Office) and co-creator Elgin James (Mayans M.C.). It follows a group of strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Talk Productions is renaming itself Big Talk Studios and is reshuffling its top team as Matthew Justice departs after 16 years. The British producer behind Amazon’s The Outlaws is rebranding with an eye on the U.S., where it has just wrapped Dinner With The Parents for Freevee, a…

Prime Video will release Season 2 of The Outlaws on August 5. All 6 episodes of the Amazon Original series will premiere via the streamer in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nordic countries. From Stephen Merchant and Elgin James, The Outlaws follows a group of misfits who are brought together to do…

April Fool’s Day seemed to come a little early this year with the punchline the 94th Academy Awards turned into. However, Will Smith’s slap heard around the world and AMPAS’ faltering reaction in the Dolby Theater and since aside, there is a fair amount of fun to hand on the small screen this week. The question…

Amazon has revealed the first trailer for the comedy thriller The Outlaws, starring Stephen Merchant and Christopher Walken, premiering April 1 via Prime Video. The 6-episode series—created by Merchant and Elgin James (Mayans M.C.)— follows a disparate group of lawbreakers thrown together to complete a community…

Amazon has renewed The Outlaws ahead of its U.S. series premiere in 2022. The comedy-thriller from Stephen Merchant and Elgin James—a co-production between the Amazon Studios and BBC One—has already aired in its entirety in the UK. Season 2 is set to air in multiple territories (including the U.S., Canada…