Jerry Bruckheimer


Starz vehicle

Chris Albrecht tells Jesse Whittock about the new look Starz business following its merger with North American studio Lionsgate, about his relationship with cable king John Malone and how OTT is making international business more viable. Chris Albrecht is a proponent of entertainment media consolidation in today’s market, which is why he was a driving […]

Wowow opens Japanese Cold Case

Japanese premium cabler Wowow has ordered a local version of Cold Case, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced US procedural. Warner Bros. International Television Production owns rights to the formats and struck the Japanese deal, with Wowow’s Drama W division producing the local version. It marks the first time the US series, which ran on US net CBS […]

CBS pilots Training Day reboot

US broadcaster CBS is to pilot a reworking of Antoine Fuqua’s 2001 feature film Training Day, as the Eye Network continues to look to movies for series inspiration. The project has a pilot production commitment, with Fuqua and his Fuqua Films imprint, writer Will Beall, Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Bros. Television all attached. The […]

Spike harvests Bruckheimer drama series

US cable net Spike has ordered Harvest, a new drama about a hard-working father forced to work in the black market trading of body parts. The ten-part show will be Spike’s first one-hour drama series in almost a decade. Film and TV producer Jerry Bruckheimer is on production duty alongside Warner Horizon Television. Ian Sobel […]

CBS to dispose of CSI

US broadcast network CBS is expected to confirm the axing of long-running procedural CSI: Crime Scene Investigation tomorrow at its new season schedule launch. Various US news outlets are reporting the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced show, which follows forensic investigators as they undertake cases, is not among 10 scripted series renewed for the 2015-16 season. How CBS […]

CBS working on third CSI spin-off

US broadcast channel CBS is prepping a third CSI spin-off, this time focusing on a Virginia-based cyber crimes unit. The currently untitled series comes a decade after the original CSI series launched on the Eye Network and will join a family of programmes that also now includes CSI: Miami and CSI: MY. It will follows […]

The Blacklist beats Hostages in season launches

The first episode of buzzy US drama The Blacklist has performed well for NBC, winning 12.6 million viewers, beating another hyped new drama, CBS’s Hostages. The Blacklist stars James Spader as a wanted fugitive who mysteriously turns himself in. Its creditable opening episode performance meant it beat Hostages, which went out on CBS. The Jerry […]

2013 LA Screenings in review

As the sun sets on the studio lots and the myriad of international buyers head home after this year’s LA Screenings, the real business is just beginning. For those channels not tied into long term output deals with certain studios, the bidding wars for the best of the US are already underway. And though there […]

LA Screenings: Broadcast Strikes Back

With US cable series such as Hatfields & McCoys gaining traction with key demographics in the past year, broadcast networks have reacted with new comedies, reboots and spin offs and a shift toward short-run series for the new season. Jesse Whittock looks at how this will affect buyers at the LA Screenings. Laughter, it’s often […]

CBS sees future in Better Lives, kills CSI:NY

Leading US broadcast network CBS has taken comedy Friends with Better Lives to series, but has dropped the long running CSI: NY and Rules of Engagement. Friends… is billed as being about a group of 30-somethings, each one of which thinks the others have better prospects. The sitcom comes from Kapital Entertainment and 20th Century Fox […]