Next week’s LA Screenings promise to provide some answers to some big questions – namely, just what shows the US studios are prepared to sell to international buyers. Yet the direction of travel for some is already clear, write Mark Layton & Richard Middleton. The worlds of Taylor Sheridan’s ratings-laden cowboy drama Yellowstone and the […]
Atrium TV, the innovative drama ‘commissioning club’, has this week presented its members with a slate of four new drama titles. At the same time it also revealed that two of its previously announced titles, Quasimodo and One Giant Leap, are going into production. The four new high-end projects – all in advanced development – […]
Michael Jay Solomon, former president of Warner Bros. Television and owner of Digital Content International (DCI), together with Espen Huseby, CEO of NordicWorld, is unveiling a slate of short form scripted series by New Form Entertainment at the LA Screenings. DCI and NordicWorld (in which DCI has a stake) have secured exclusive multi-platform international rights […]
International TV market organiser NATPE will offer services to delegates at the LA Screenings Independents 2018. The event, which runs from May 15-18 at the Intercontinental Hotel in LA’s Century City, occurs directly before of the Hollywood studios’ screenings for international buyers. At LA Screenings Independents 2018, NATPE will offer access to an entire event […]
ABC’s autism-themed medical drama is the biggest new show on US primetime, and buyers are responding in kind, TBI reports. Every year, TBI travels to the LA Screenings in May to view the latest pilots from the US broadcasters. Picking which will become new season hits is rarely easy, and although The Good Doctor was […]
International broadcasters are desperate for American procedurals, and this year the Hollywood studios believe they’ve got the supply to satisfy demand. Jesse Whittock reports from LA Major international networks have been demanding more procedurals from the US studios for years. The ratings stability the format offers is not matched on a consistent basis by the […]
ITV has bought the film-to-TV series adaptation of Lethal Weapon, a major deal that marks the primetime return of US drama to the UK’s largest commercial channel. The UK broadcaster scheduled US series in its ITV primetime in the distant past, before moving to a peak time line-up of local fare in recent years. Lethal […]
Middling ratings have put paid to CBS’s hour-long drama series Rush Hour. The series, which comes from Warner Bros. Television and is based on the movie franchise of the same name, has taken average 1.2 ratings (six million viewers) for the US broadcaster. This has not been deemed enough to keep it going, and star […]
Another year of excess, exuberance and extreme selling at the Hollywood studios is over, but the nature of the mayhem is changing, writes Jesse Whittock The LA Screenings began as they shouldn’t – grey clouds and prolonged rain shows dampening the spirits of the buyers flying in to Hollywood (one local hyberbolically claimed California has not seen any “any […]
Australia’s Nine Network has let its output deal with Warner Bros. lapse with local reports suggesting the Australian free-to-air broadcaster will reallocate the cash to sport rights. The Australian was the first to report Nine’s Warner Bros. deal has ended and TBI has verified that is the case. The Australian said the output deal cash […]
