Tom Hanks


HBO to dramatise Trump election

HBO is turning the unexpected election of Donald Trump as US president last year into a miniseries. Jay Roach, who directed HBO one-off drama about the 2008 election Game Change, will return for the as-yet-unnamed mini, which is based on source material from a Mark Halperin and John Heilemann book that Penguin Press is soon […]

Viewpoint: The anthology strikes back

Dan Whitehead, head of drama and digital at UK consultancy K7 Media, on how anthology dramas have emerged from their slumber Like any creative industry, TV drama is not immune from the lure of a good bandwagon, but few have caught on as quickly as the current mania for anthology series, as a look at […]

CNN to relive The Nineties with HBO

US news network CNN are working together on The Nineties, the latest show in the Tom Hanks-produced series looking at major milestones in different decades. Hank and production partner Gary Goetzman have previously worked with CNN on The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties. The Nineties, produced in association with HBO and Mark Herzog, will […]

FremantleMedia explores The Seventies

FremantleMedia International has acquired worldwide rights to CNN Original documentary series The Seventies. The deal covers all territories outside the US, and means the Tom Hanks-produced 8x60mins show now sits alongside The Sixties in the FMI catalogue. The Sixties sold to 43 territories worldwide, including DR in Denmark, NTV in Germany and SBS in Australia. […]

A-listers attached to historical HBO mini

US premium cable channel HBO has ordered a historical miniseries that has actors Tom Hanks, Ed Norton and Brad Pitt attached as executive producers. Lewis and Clark will be a six-hour scripted mini starring Casey Affleck and Matthias Schoenaerts. Hanks (Castaway, Philadelphia), Norton (Fight Club) and Pitt (Se7en) executive produce along with Gary Goetzman (Game […]

FremantleMedia takes CNN’s Tom Hanks ‘60s doc

FremantleMedia has taken international rights to CNN factual series The Sixties. The ten-part doc tells the story of the US through the 1960s including seminal moments such as assassination of JFK, the Cold War, the moon landing and emergence of the civil rights movement. The series was executive produced by film star Tom Hanks. FremantleMedia […]

Miniseries strike back

A few years ago, it looked like scripted miniseries were heading for the scrapheap. With networks favouring TV movies, returning series and fast-moving factual entertainment franchises, miniseries started to look expensive to produce and hard to schedule. Things are very different now, reports Andy Fry.   A run of well-received projects such as Rome, Pillars […]