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How the TV industry is financing drama in a choppy market

As scripted execs hit London TV Screenings this week, Richard Middleton explores the industry’s next moves as it navigates a streamer-induced squeeze on spending in the US and across Europe. Anyone hoping that the start of 2024 would bring blessed relief from the storm of the last 12 months is likely to have been left […]

Council Of Europe unveils projects to receive $3.3m from new Pilot Programme

Council Of Europe’s new Pilot Programme for series co-productions has unveiled seven shows that will receive €3m ($3.3m) in funding, following a call for projects last year. Successful projects include The Kollective, the drama created by Femke Wolting, Maddalena Ravagli, Leonardo Fasoli that is being produced by Submarine Productions and Menuetto Film for the Alliance […]

Mediawan acquires Femke Wolting & Bruno Felix prodco Submarine

European media group Mediawan has taken a majority stake in Submarine, the prodco behind Netflix’s Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood and Amazon Prime Video’s Undone. The Amsterdam, LA and London-based company was founded two decades ago by Femke Wolting and Bruno Felix, and works across five divisions which feed each other: scripted, documentary, […]

Exclusive: France TV, Rai & ZDF pick up Bellingcat drama ‘The Kollective’

France Televisions, Italian pubcaster Rai and Germany’s ZDF have picked up Bellingcat drama The Kollective, which is being written by Gomorrah scribes Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravioli. The show, which has been in the works since 2019, is being produced by Amsterdam-based Submarine and has been inspired by the company’s hit documentary Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth […]

Why mixed-medium docs are the future

Streamers have helped to propel documentaries to new audiences, in particular enticing younger viewers. Richard Middleton discovers how this is affecting what’s on screen Few disagree that documentary filmmakers are in the midst of a rich vein of form, arguably the medium’s most prolific ever. And it is streamers that seem to be providing much […]

Submarine preps Matt Haig’s sci-fi novel ‘Echo Boy’ for adaptation

LA- and Amsterdam-based production company Submarine has optioned rights to author Matt Haig’s sci-fi novel Echo Boy for adaptation into a hybrid live action/animated series. Submarine has brought long-time collaborator Tommy Pallotta on board the project. He co-developed the animation technique that has previously been used in sci-fi feature A Scanner Darkly and docudrama Waking […]

Arte calls up Submarine, Pumpernickel for Douglas Rushkoff digital docuseries

European cultural broadcaster Arte has ordered a four-part docuseries about the digital economy from Amsterdam and LA-based producer Submarine, France’s Pumpernickel Films and media expert Douglas Rushkoff. Exponential follows Rushkoff as he takes viewers on a journey from the beginning of the digital age through its transformation by big business to the possibilities for a […]

HBO acquires David France documentary ‘Welcome To Chechnya’

HBO has picked up North American TV and streaming rights to Welcome To Chechnya, the documentary from Academy Award-nominated director David France (How To Survive A Plague). The doc shadows a group of activists risking their lives to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ persecution in the Russian Republic of Chechnya and attempts to expose the little-reported […]

Discovery buys Spurlock’s Rats

US cable net Discovery Channel has acquired rights to Morgan Spurlock’s new film, Rats. Discovery Communications’ flagship channel is now a partner on the documentary, which Spurlock’s Warrior Poets is producing in association with Dakota Group and film distributor Submarine, which has international sales rights and is shopping it at the Cannes Film Festival this […]