Hat Trick boosts format slate UK-based Hat Trick International has added two new entertainment formats to its MIPCOM line-up – Strangers On A Plane from Strawberry Blond for Channel 4 and Screen Grab from Beezr for BBC Scotland. Strangers On A Plane is a stripped entertainment format which sees five strangers compete to prove they can holiday better than […]
London TV Screenings, the fast-growing event organised by All3Media International, Banijay Rights, Entertainment One, Fremantle and ITV Studios, is to be held over the same week as BBC Studios’ flagship market. The London screenings event’s third iteration will run from Monday, 27 February to Friday, 3 March next year, following a 2022 version that attracted more than […]
Sky buys double Espresso Sky Crime and Sky Arts in the UK have picked up rights to documentary duo Monster In The Shadows (3 x 52 minutes) and On Broadway (1 x 82 minutes) from Espresso Media International. Sky Crime will broadcast Monster In The Shadows in April, following its debut on NBCUniversal’s Peacock in the […]
Buyers, hungry for new content, are making their way to the UK capital for meetings, presentations and drinks – or logging on from across the globe – all this week, as London TV Screenings gets underway tomorrow. With so many new productions being showcased, TBI has been checking in with execs from international distributors of all sizes […]
Studiocanal, Beyond Rights, Blue Ant International and Cineflix Rights are among a swathe of distributors to have formally joined London TV Screenings, which is set to take place early next year. The quartet join event organisers All3Media International, Banijay Rights, eOne, Fremantle and ITV Studios, which earlier this month confirmed that next year’s London-based event […]
AMC+ gives US debut to ‘Anne Boleyn’ US-based AMC+ has acquired three-part psychological thriller Anne Boleyn as an original series for its US debut on 9 December. Starring Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) in the titular role, the drama explores the final months of Anne Boleyn’s life, as she struggles to secure a future for her daughter and to […]
ITV orders Mercurio drama ITV in the UK has ordered crime thriller DI Ray, which has been written and created by Maya Sondhi (Line Of Duty), stars Parminder Nagra, and is being produced by Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television. The four-parter is set in Birmingham, UK and follows a police officer who takes on a case […]
‘Iconic’ format reboots have become a regular event over recent months but as Tim Dams discovers, the risk threshold is changing as broadcasters and streamers employ new strategies to get fresh IP onto screens Broadcasters have long focused their spend and schedules on formats with a proven track record, a trend that has only cemented itself over […]
AMC+ launches on YouTube TV US-based AMC Networks has launched its AMC+ subscription bundle on YouTube TV. Providing content to programming from across the company’s networks, including AMC, Shudder, Sundance Now and IFC Films Unlimited, YouTube TV customers will now have access to marquee AMC titles such as horror shows The Walking Dead and Creepshow […]
The BBC has extended crime drama Bloodlands, following the Jed Mercurio-produced show’s first season finale in the UK yesterday. The second season will again come from writer Chris Brandon and is being exec produced by Line Of Duty’s Mercurio, with his recently launched firm Hat Trick Mercurio (HTM) Television attached to produce. The show is set in […]
