Show of the week


Show of the week: Last Seen Alive

Investigation Discovery’s latest series launched on June 1 in the US to ratings that Lucy Rawson, Cineflix Rights’ sales executive for Africa, central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and southern Mediterranean, believes could lead to a quick second season commission. “It got around one million, a great number,” she says. Each episode of the […]

Show of the week: Space Racers

There is no shortage of vehicle series for preschoolers and several set beyond the realms of this planet, but Space Racers combines both elements in a show that has seen the producers get the ultimate space-exploration credit by counting US space agency NASA as a production partner. The action comedy is set in Stardust Bay, […]

Show of the week: Talking Tom

The Talking Tom app is the sixth-most-downloaded ever on the iPhone and the tenth most on the iPad. It is now set for TV. The app was created by developer Outfit7 and is one of only two to have been downloaded over a billion times, alongside Angry Birds, which has already had its cartoon makeover. […]

TLC to pilot Dutch format Find My Family

Absolutely Independent’s reunion-themed format Find My Family is being pilot for US cable channel TLC. The pilot will likely go out as Long Lost Family, the same name the format employs in the UK, were it plays on commercial channel ITV. Shed Media US is producing the pilot, which will launch on Discovery Communications’ female-skewed […]

Show of the week: Power

Power marks Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson’s move into TV drama. When premium cabler Starz announced the series, the immediate assumption was that the show was inspired by the tumultuous life of the rapper and entrepreneur. In fact the star collaborated on the story and appears in the show, but the lead character, James ‘Ghost’ St. […]

Show of the week: Breadwinnners

Breadwinners is a first – the first full series commissioned as a result of Nickelodeon’s Global Shorts Program, which launched in 2012. The series is based upon a shortform show from Italian animator Gary ‘Doodles’ DiRaffaele. Keen on the project, Nickelodeon buddied up DiRaffaele with Steve Borst (Teen Titans Go!), and the result is a […]

Show of the week: Babylon

“Babylon is about everyone watching you and waiting for you to make a mistake,” says the show’s executive producer, Robert Jones. The “you” in question is London’s Metropolitan Police Service, which is put under the spotlight by a production dream team of Jones, best known for films including The Usual Suspects and The Constant Gardener, […]

Show of the week: Ashley Banjo’s Big Town Dance

Since winning the third season of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent with his dance troupe Diversity in 2009, Ashley Banjo has established himself as one of paycaster channel Sky 1 HD’s key talents. He appeared as a judge on talent show Got to Dance in 2010 and fronted docu-reality format Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew two […]

Show of the week: Grandpas Over Flowers

Take four well-known South Korean actors of pensioner age and a young porter-cum-minder on a backpacking trip in a far-flung country and you get Grandpas Over Flowers. The series, from creator Na Young Suk, has been a major hit on CJ E&M-owned general entertainment pay TV channel tvN, with the channel recording a 9.99% share […]

Show of the week: The Love Table

The Love Table came out of FremantleMedia’s relationship with broadcaster Asahi and is born out of a Japanese dating phenomenon whereby singletons sit around a table trying to find love. The English-language version launched at MIPTV. Rob Clark, director of global entertainment development at FremantleMedia, says that a key part of the dating show is […]

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