Music competition format in which ten singers perform in front of three celebrities who have been tasked with working out whose voice is behind each song. Though each contestant appears to be singing their heart out when the music starts, only one really is, with the other nine just lip-synching. “There has been a lot […]
IMDb TV seeks ‘Leverage: Redemption’ S2 Amazon’s AVOD service IMDb TV has picked up heist drama series Leverage: Redemption for a second season. The crime drama is a reimagining of Electric Entertainment’s drama Leverage, which ran for five seasons on US cablenet TNT until 2012. The reboot is sold by LA-based Electric Entertainment. “Bringing back these […]
France’s TF1 has ordered a new shiny floor format from Turkish distributor Global Agency. Blind Duets features a jury of four celebrity singers and 12 contestants, the latter of whom remain hidden behind multi-coloured doors. Contestants provide details of their lives and dreams, before each is required to emerge form behind their doors to sing […]
Global Agency is presenting this brand-new musical competition format that sees four celebrity singers on a jury panel performing alongside 12 contestants to uncover their star quality. The identity of each contestant is hidden inside cabinets in a dazzling studio. After they share details of their lives and dreams, they sing a chosen song briefly […]
Sony Pictures alum starts prodco Former Sony Pictures International Productions executive Luke Scrase has launched a UK-based film and television development and production company. Golden Gate Studios, which has a first-look film and TV deal with Sony Pictures, will primarily focus on developing and producing British and European genre films as well as “commercially driven” […]
BBC, RTL join The Hunt For A Killer BBC Four in the UK is among broadcasters to have picked up Yellow Bird’s Swedish true crime drama series, The Hunt For A Killer. The show, sold by Banijay Rights, will air on the channel this summer and will also be available via BBC iPlayer. It has also been […]
Distributor Global Agency has acquired international sales rights to hit Turkish drama Innocence. The show is produced by Turkey’s Gold Film for Fox in Turkey and follows the life of a tycoon, who is arrested over a vicious attack on his secret lover that in turn exposes a jealous love triangle which tears all their lives […]
BBC orders Storyboard photo format UK pubcaster the BBC has ordered an original photography format from Scotland’s Storyboard Studios. The 4 x 60-minute Great British Photography Challenge will see six amateur photographers take on a variety of assignments around the UK and guided by world-famous portrait and fashion photographer Rankin. The series producer-director is David […]
Starzplay secures Fremantle quartet Global streamer Starzplay has struck a deal with Fremantle for an array of scripted series, including We Are Who We Are and No Man’s Land. Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are stars Chloë Sevigny and tells the story of two American kids who live on a US military base in Italy […]
Global Agency’s Good Singers format is a talent show like no other – the trick is simply to look the part. The format recently debuted on France’s TF1 and is based on Is That Really Your Voice?, which requires two teams to guess the most talented singers to win money for charity. TF1’s version is hosted by TV […]
