French distributor Ampersand Fiction has picked up the Russian thriller The Dead Lake for international distribution. The 8 x 52-minute series is produced by Moscow-based 1-2-3 Production and originally aired on GPM Entertainment Television. Directed by by Roman Prygunov (Dukhless) and written by Roman Kantor (To The Lake), the series follows a Moscow detective who is […]
With The Berlin International Film Festival underway this week and its Co-Pro Series launching today, Mark Layton gets the inside line on medical drama co-production 58 Seconds from BlackBox Multimedia CEO Giuliano Papadia and The Mediapro Studio’s content head Stephen Johnstone. Co-productions have been a mainstay of the global drama business for decades but in a fractured world […]
Discovery preps YA drama Nach Discovery Nordic is preparing to launch an eight-part coming-of-age drama from Banijay-owned scripted label Rubicon. Nach (After Party) follows a university drop-out who is thrown out of her houseshare and moves in with her big sister, before becoming caught up with emotions for her sister’s boyfriend. The situation unravels during eight very […]
Netflix is launching a new anime series based on the Terminator franchise, from US prodco Skydance and Japanese anime studio Production IG. Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman) will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the series, a new instalment in the sci-fi action franchise that initially served as a starring vehicle for Austrian-American […]
ITV Studios (ITVS) has taken control of Piv Bernth and Lars Hermann’s Danish firm Apple Tree Productions, after extending its stake in the company to 51%. Apple Tree was launched in 2017 by the format drama chiefs at Danish pubcaster DR and was supported by ITVS, which initially took at 25% stake in the company. Since […]
US boxing icon Mike Tyson has hit back after Hulu announced a straight-to-series order for Iron Mike, a scripted limited series dramatising the events of his life. The streamer has commissioned an eight-part series from I, Tonya writer Steven Rogers and director Craig Gillespie, with that film’s Margot Robbie set to exec produce, via her […]
Germany’s Beta Film has picked up international distribution rights to Movistar+ and AMC’s drama La Fortuna, which marks Oscar-winning director Alejandro Amenábar’s (The Others, The Sea Inside) first venture into TV series. La Fortuna, which stars Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones, Hunger Games) and Clarke Peters (The Wire), is based on the true-to-life discovery in […]
French kids prodco Cottonwood Media, German pubcaster ZDF, its co-pro and distribution arm ZDF Enterprises, US streamer HBO Max and Brazilian media giant Globo have teamed up to co-produce Theodosia, a new live-action Egyptology-themed kids series. The 26 x 30-minute series is produced by Cottonwood Media’s David Michel, Cécile Lauritano and Zoé Carrera Allaix, while Joe Williams (Hank Zipzer’s Christmas […]
Netflix is to invest close to $500m in Korea this year, with the streamer ramping up its local content production as it nears four million subscribers in the country. In a statement, Minyoung Kim, Netflix VP of content for Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, said that the move came to “add more variety and […]
As BBC Studios’ first virtual Showcase draws to a close, Mark Layton talks to Silent Witness star Emilia Fox and executive producer Lawrence Till, as the British crime drama celebrates 25 years on our screens. “I had no idea that it would carry on for this long, I don’t think anyone had; I don’t think […]
