With BBC Studios Showcase kicking off today, TBI’s Mark Layton talks to Romesh Ranganathan and Benjamin Green about Avoidance, the first comedy resulting from the company’s partnership with producer Ranga Bee. Anyone logging on to the BBC Studios Showcase today will get the chance to take their first look at Avoidance, one of this year’s […]
Normally, quiz show contestants do their best to avoid appearing foolish in front of the cameras, but in this new entertainment format, looking silly is the quickest way to win. Hosted by a popular comedian – Tom Allen in the UK version – each episode sees four contestants’ general knowledge put to the test as […]
To mark World Autism Awareness Day on 2 April, TBI deputy editor Mark Layton talks to producers from around the world, and across a range of genres, about their neurodiversity and disability-focused shows and what best practices can be learned from how they brought them to the screen. Authentic on-screen representations of disability and neurodiversity are, […]
Red Arrow Studios has extended its multi-year deal with the trio behind Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds firm CPL Productions. Danielle Lux, Murray Boland and Janet Oakes have all agreed to continue their partnership with Red Arrow, which bought the UK-based TV and audio production company in 2012. The company’s slate includes the […]
Doubts have emerged over the future of Love Is Blind and Deep State producer Red Arrow Studio (RAS), after creative chief Nina Etspueler became the latest senior executive to step down from the ProSiebenSat.1-owned firm. Etspueler had been group creative director at Red Arrow for 18 months, having been promoted in February 2019 following the […]
Sky picks up second run of Rob & Romesh Vs Sky One and Now TV in the UK have commissioned the Red Arrow Studios-owned prodco CPL Productions to make a second season of comedy series Rob & Romesh Vs. Comcast-owned Sky operates both satellite TV channel Sky One and OTT service Now TV. The new […]
All3Media’s pursuit to acquire Red Arrow Studios is understood to be back on course after ProSiebenSat.1 paused the sales process of its global production and distribution division late last year. The German company triggered a strategic review of Red Arrow in September, prompting a number of companies including Sony Pictures Television, AMC and All3 to […]
Danish pubcaster DR has ordered a local version of a UK format that sees senior residents of a care home brought together with four-year-olds for six weeks. The local version of Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds will be produced by Danish firm Snowman Productions, which was previously behind the original Married At First […]
Talpa to open The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes Talpa TV in the Netherlands has ordered a local version of social experiment format The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes, which sees a group of people living with dementia tasked with helping to run a restaurant. The show, sold by Red Arrow Studios International, is being produced in […]
The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes is a Red Arrow – distributed social experiment format that sees 14 people with dementia tasked with running a professional restaurant. Hailing from Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds’ CPL Productions and Motion Content Group, the series follows a group of people living with varying stages of dementia who […]
