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Gaumont teams with Petersen, brings David & Goliath series to Cannes

Gaumont International Television has inked a deal with movie director Wolfgang Petersen and the pair will make a new drama series about the ancient ruler of Israel, King David. Petersen’s movie work includes Troy and The Perfect Storm. He will direct the one-hour drama King David, which does not yet have a broadcaster. Gaumont will […]

Gaumont poaches FremantleMedia exec, renews CEO deal

Gaumont International Television has hired Sam Semon from FremantleMedia North America and renewed the contract of company CEO Katie O’Connell. The LA-based TV division of the French movie studio has had success with its first two drama series Hannibal, which has been taken to a second season by US broadcast net NBC and Netflix original […]

Gaumont hires three for TV division

Gaumont has hired a trio of executives for its international TV division. Carol Trussel has been hired as head of production, Adam Fishbach as senior VP of creative affairs and Mary Carol Bulger director of production administration. The trio will be based at Gaumont International Television in LA, which is run by CEO, Katie O’Connell […]

News brief: Netflix orders more Hemlock Grove

Online video-on-demand subscription service Netflix has commissioned a second season of horror series Hemlock Grove, one of the original series in which it has recently invested. The show, executive produced by Eli Roth, will return to Netflix next year. Charles Eglee (The Walking Dead) will join the second season as executive producer. Hemlock Grove is […]

NBC renews Hannibal

US broadcaster NBC has greenlit a second season of its Hannibal Lecter television series. The network has given Hannibal a new 13-part run that will air no earlier than midseason. The first season has averaged about 4.7 million viewers, according to NBC citing Nielsen Media Research. The pick up signifies the last scripted series order […]

International Studios: Drama Studies

For a week in May the attention of the TV world is focused on Hollywood studios as they present their new shows to international buyers at the LA Screenings. While the acquisitions folk are spending time – and money – with the Majors, an increasing amount of high-end drama is coming out of the LA […]

2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Sarah Wright, controller of acquisitions, BSkyB

UK pay TV operator BSky is the largest UK-based buyer of US studio programming and picked up a raft of titles at last year’s LA Screenings for its Sky1 HD, Sky Living HD and Sky Atlantic channels. Sarah Wright is controller of acquisitions and as well as working across the channels is also buying studio […]

MIPTV News: Hemlock Grove stars head for the Croisette

The talent behind new Netflix murder mystery series Hemlock Grove will participate in a panel session at MIPTV. Director and executive producer Eli Roth and actors Famke Janssen and Bill Skarsgard will be in Cannes with Hemlock Grove‘s LA-based producer Gaumont International Television. They will hit the red carpet at the Martinez Hotel on MIPTV’s […]

James Bond writers will pen Barbarella TV series

  Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the writers of the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall, have been signed up to pen the upcoming TV adaptation of Barbarella. The writing duo are behind five recent Bond movies including Quantum of Solace and Casino Royal. Barbarella will be based on the iconic character created by Jean-Claude Forest and […]

Blood and gore and TV shows

Television is getting scarier. Horror has always had an on-off relationship with the small screen dating back to the Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt but the number of gore filled series currently on the air is higher than it’s ever been. Shows including The Walking Dead, The River, Dexter, Grimm and American Horror […]