Disney+ has unveiled Nautilus, its latest UK-based scripted series, while NBCUniversal revealed its global co-pro plans and Jack Thorne has blasted the industry’s lack of disability representation, as the 2021 Edinburgh TV Festival got underway yesterday. Speaking on a panel session at this year’s hybrid event, Disney EMEA execs Liam Keelan, VP of original content, […]
French production and distribution company StudioCanal is reuniting with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy writer Peter Straughan and director Tomas Alfredson to produce Europa, an adaptation of British author Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe Sequence sci-fi espionage thriller novels. Seven Stories will co-produce the 8 x 60-minute series, which will also be executive produced by Anand Tucker, Colleen Woodcock and Robyn Slovo. Hutchinson wrote […]
Red Arrow Studios International (RASI) has partnered with All3Media-backed Seven Stories and US-based Atalaya Productions to develop a female-led series based on the ‘Harvey Girls’ in early 1900s America. Harvey Girls is being written by Liz Lake (Riviera) and is based on research from Lesley Poling-Kempes’ non-fiction book The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened The […]
Film and TV execs Anand Tucker and Sharon Maguire are returning to the UK to launch a new indie producer, Seven Stories, with backing from All3Media. Tucker and Maguire are the directors, writers and producers of series and movies including Girl with a Pearl Earring, Bridget Jones’ Diary and Red Riding 1983. Tucker recently directed […]
