UKTV has hired ITV exec Helen Perry as head of drama to grow its original scripted slate across its channels Alibi, Drama and Dave. Starting in January 2024, Perry will report to Hilary Rosen, director of commissioning, and will executive produce scripted drama for the broadcaster, joining the team responsible for shows including Annika, Traces, […]
Raw, the UK factual production company behind The Tinder Swindler and Three Identical Strangers has hired Netflix’s Jonny Taylor as creative director. Taylor will take up his new role in December, joining the senior leadership team, and working alongside Raw founders Dimitri Doganis and Bart Layton, as well as creative director Liesel Evans and EVP […]
Sian Doyle, the former chief executive of Welsh-language public broadcaster S4C, has criticised her dismissal last week by channel chairman Rhodri Williams as “an unprecedented lack of governance for a public body”. Doyle was fired from her post following an investigation into allegations of “bullying and a toxic culture” at the channel. Taking aim at […]
Paramount’s UK network Channel 5 has extended its recent commissioning flurry with a thriller from France’s Gaumont. The Wives (6 x 60 minutes) is a six-part mystery drama that follows the unravelling of a family over the course of a year, tracking how the lives of four sisters-in-law holidaying in Malta are turned upside down […]
Pernel Media, the Paris-based production company behind After The Asteroid, is preparing a one-off doc exploring the origins of mammals having secured access to a recent discovery in South Africa’s Karoo Basin. The 1 x 90-minute film will explore the work of paleontologists Bruce Rubidge and Julien Benoit, who in 2023 unearthed the oldest known […]
Global SVOD subscriptions will increase by 321 million between 2023 and 2029 to reach 1.79 billion, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The US will lead the way in terms of growth, adding 30 million subscriptions, followed by India, up by 27 million, and Brazil, increasing 23 million. Furthermore, six US-based platforms […]
Blink49 Studios, the Toronto-based firm headed by former Entertainment One exec John Morayniss, has partnered with Lilly Singh’s Unicorn Island Productions to develop a drama series based on Riva Razdan’s novel Arzu. The project, which comes out of the first-look deal between Blink49 Studios and Unicorn Island Productions, will star Charithra Chandran (Alex Rider, Bridgerton) […]
Broadcasters in Thailand, South Korea and China are among those to have picked up shows from Mondo TV Group, aahead of Asia TV Forum and Market (ATF) next week. The first two seasons of kids animation MeteoHeroes, which is co-produced by Mondo TV and Meteo Expert, has been acquired by Cineplex in Thailand and will […]
ZDF Studios has partnered with Boogie Entertainment and Aristosfilms for The Kim Dotcom Story, a scripted adaptation of the biography The Secret Life Of Kim Dotcom: Spies, Lies And The War For The Internet by David Fisher. Robert Franke, VP of drama at ZDF Studios, and Boogie Entertainment’s producer and founder Rolant Hergert will act […]
Australian broadcaster SBS, France Télévisions and CBC Gem, the streaming service of CBC in Canada, have acquired Ukrainian drama anthology series Those Who Stayed. Launched at MIPCOM last month, the 6 x 30-minute series is inspired by events that took place in Kyiv in the first few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in […]
