Left Bank Pictures has started production in Canada on new Amazon Prime Video crime series Three Pines, starring Alfred Molina. Filming in Montreal and rural Quebec, the series is based on Canadian author Louise Penny’s best-selling Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. The eight, one hour episode drama will film from August to December and launch […]
ITV and AMC are adapting James Graham’s play Quiz into a three-part series. Directed by Stephen Frears, the Left Bank-produced drama will tell the story of British couple Charles and Diana Ingram’s attempted heist of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The story is based on real-life events that saw Major Ingram, Diana and an […]
Netflix has used the TCAs to announce a number of new series coming to the streaming service later this year and into 2019. The headline shows include new limited series starring and produced by Oscar winner Octavia Spencer; new drama from the producers of The Crown; a new Gothic series with Kiernan Shipka of Mad […]
The Crown producer Left Bank has landed a pilot order from Amazon and will make Oasis, an adaptation of the Michael Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things that will feature Game of Thrones star Richard Madden. The project is one of five in Amazon’s latest ‘pilot season’, in which the streaming service trials new […]
Top drama producers tell Jesse Whittock about the small screen’s enduring fascination with royalty. The £100 million (US$125 million) budget Netflix’s drama The Crown (above) was reportedly handed isn’t quite the estimated £369 million it’s going to take to renovate Buckingham Palace’s 775 rooms, but is certainly one of the biggest purses to which a […]
Amazon has ordered an original drama pilot for its soon-to-launch Indian service, with Slumdog Millionaire and 24 star Anil Kapoor on board. The series will be based upon the Michael Faber novel The Book of Strange New Things and will be produced by Sony’s UK-based prodco Left Bank Pictures (The Crown). Kevin MacDonald (The Last King […]
Sony has shopped its US version of action drama Mad Dogs to a raft of international broadcasters. The show debuts on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video streaming service in the UK, Germany and the US this week and Sony Pictures Television said it has sold it into over 140 territories. The show is a US reboot […]
Kayo Washio runs the LA office of Japanese pay TV channel operator WOWOW. She set up on the West Coast in 2010. An established buyer of US series and movies, WOWOW has just got on board its first international originals and Washio wants to reach out to the global TV community to scope out more […]
Plans are underway to make some of the most iconic US shows ever for local broadcasters with international versions of 24, Breaking Bad, ER, Glee and Gossip Girl planned in countries as far afield as Israel and China. Shows including Prison Break, Law & Order and Desperate Housewives have already had the remake treatment and […]
