TV is now cinematic. From The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power mega budget series on Prime Video, to the later seasons of Jed Mercurio’s BBC hit Line Of Duty, the storytelling boundaries between film and TV are eroding. The big difference that remains is the episodic nature of the TV series. But […]
NBC & Peacock prep duo NBC has taken comedy Lopez vs Lopez to series, while sibling streamer Peacock has ordered a show from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’s Jason Woliner. Lopez vs Lopez is from the company’s Universal Television division, alongside Mohawk Productions, Travieso Productions, Mi Vida Loba and 3 Arts. The family comedy explores dysfunction, reconnection “and all the pain […]
Female-led drama has been on the rise for several years but there’s an ongoing evolution around the types of stories now being brought to screen, writes Helen Dugdale. In 2022, it seems odd that we’re still applauding the rise in women taking charge in front and behind the camera. Surely it should just be the […]
European producer BlackBox Multimedia and UK prodco Seven Seas Films have partnered with Dan Sefton (The Good Karma Hospital) on a scripted adaptation of Born Fighter, the memoir of Muay Thai champion Ruqsana Begum. The two firms will co-produce the project as a limited series, which will focus on Begum’s remarkable journey to becoming a Muay Thai […]
US-Canadian entertainment company Lionsgate has signed on to co-produce and distribute Blackbox Multimedia’s supernatural crime drama Costa. The series, written by Gaby Chiappe (The Beast Must Die) and Alex Perrin (The Level), tells the story of a woman and her three children who flee from violence to the Costa del Sol. However, far from being the sanctuary they […]
UK-based One Big Picture has boarded international prodco BlackBox Multimedia and US indie Stone Village TV’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s horror classic Frankenstein, with the three companies to co-produce the upcoming series. One Big Picture was founded by Otto Bathurst, director of UK dramas including Peaky Blinders, His Dark Materials and Black Mirror, who it […]
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 […]
International prodco Blackbox Multimedia and Italy’s Leader Produzioni have teamed up to adapt novelist Luis Sepúlveda’s Diary Of A Sentimental Killer as a TV series. The story from the Chilean writer an action-packed noir following an unnamed assassin who has been left by his lover the day before he is set to embark on a crucial […]
ITV makes ‘Long Call’ with Silverprint ITV in the UK has ordered four-part crime drama The Long Call, based on the novel of the same name by Vera and Shetland creator Ann Cleeves. The show is being adapted by Kelly Jones and will be produced by Silverprint Pictures, part of ITV Studios, which will handle international distribution. Des and […]
Covid-19’s impact on the TV business has been immense, but not all the ramifications are negative. Richard Middleton and Mark Layton find out how content creation and delivery might look after lockdown. Just when the world’s content industry will return to some sort of business as usual is, at this stage, anybody’s guess. Speak to […]
