US channel AT&T Audience Network has commissioned a ten-part drama from Entertainment One and Fuqua Films about downtown LA diamond traders. Ice will be a “high-impact, serlialised crime drama” that follows a family as they “plunge into the underbelly of the Los Angeles diamond trade”, with one man forced to bail out his brother after […]
Australian on-demand platform Presto has inked a new drama programming deal with Entertainment One Television. Expanding on an existing agreement that gave the SVOD service shows such as The Walking Dead, the deal comprises numerous titles. These include DirecTV crime drama Rogue, the TV adaptation of feature film The Firm, and supernatural thriller Bitten on […]
Entertainment One Television’s CEO, John Morayniss, will remain in the post for at least three more years. Moryaniss has signed a new contract that will see him remain with the Toronto-headquartered company through 2018. He took up the post in 2008 on the inception of eOne’s television business, and has since then grown revenues from […]
Entertainment One Television has named veteran production executive Gerard Bocaccio, who worked on Discovery’s first scripted show Klondike, as its senior VP, US scripted development. Based in LA, he is charged with developing eOne’s scripted programming slate for the US market. He will report to eOne’s executive VP, US scripted television, Michael Rosenberg, who said: […]
US pay TV service DirecTV has commissioned a second season of its first original series, the Thandie Newton drama Rogue. Production on a new 10-part season will begin later this summer, with a 2014 airdate on DirecTV net Audience slated. The first season of the show, which follows Newton as a morally conflicted undercover cop, […]
Entertainment One has posted strong full-year results with double-digit increases in revenue and profit. The UK-listed company said that it invested 6% more year-on-year in TV programming (excluding kids) in the year to end-March, taking the total to £79.7 million. The TV division, which covers scripted, reality and kids programme production and distribution, recorded revenue […]
US pay TV provider DirecTV has followed up its maiden original series Rogue by commissioning a 10-part drama from feature film screenwriter Neil LaBute. Full Circle is billed by its producers as a “revolutionary” scripted series format with a revolving cast that will follow conservations between 11 people whose lives, unbeknownst to them, are interconnected. […]
Entertainment One president and CEO Darren Throop will give a keynote address at MIPTV. The eOne boss will speak on the Monday of MIPTV and speak as part of the organiser’s Media Mastermind series. A statement from MIPTV said: “Following eOne’s recent acquisition of Alliance Entertainment, Darren Throop will discuss the future of his group’s […]
