Adult animation is a well-worn medium but the unique combination of a global production shutdown, ongoing uncertainty over the viability of big budget scripted projects and the insatiable demand for content is pushing the genre forward at rapid speed. And while animated projects are not quick turnarounds, they are perhaps the most viable for production […]
Snowpiercer producer Tomorrow Studios and animated TV veteran Nick Weidenfeld have teamed up to launch a new animation studio, Work Friends. Work Friends will be the first primetime TV animation label in ITV Studios’ current US scripted TV studio operation. Tomorrow Studios is also a partnership between ITV Studios and producer Marty Adelstein. ITV Studios […]
Seven years after the world has become an uninhabitable frozen wasteland, the survivors of humanity reside in a gigantic, 1001-car train that circles the globe in perpetual motion. While life aboard Snowpiercer is preferable to the icy apocalypse outside, class inequality is rife and some live in luxury, while others must endure constant hardships to […]
Roskino’s Key Buyers Event announces programme Russia’s first virtual content market, The Key Buyers Event – hosted by Russian film body Roskino – has announced its programme ahead of its launch on 8 June. More than 120 Russian companies are set to present over 300 projects, including world premiere screenings of drama series, films, animation […]
ITV Studios is positioning itself as a flexible partner to international producers against a competitive backdrop of exclusive talent deals on offer from SVODs and studios. Maria Kyriacou, president of international for ITV Studios, has championed the super-indie’s range of deal structures that allow its production partners to “share in the upside” of hit shows […]
UKTV’s Alibi channel orders first scripted original Crime drama channel Alibi has commissioned its first scripted drama with six-part series Traces. The 6 x 60-minute drama, written by Amelia Bullmore and produced by Studiocanal-backed Red, is based on an original idea by crime writer Val McDermid. The crime thriller is set in Scotland and […]
Chad Hodge, the showrunner behind the TNT series Good Behavior (right) starring Michelle Dockery, has agreed a deal to develop projects with Tomorrow Studios. The partnership will see Hodge’s company Storyland Inc work with Tomorrow, which is a joint venture between Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios. “Chad combines being an amazing writer and the consummate showrunner with […]
US cable net TNT has ordered a pilot of Snowpiercer, a futuristic drama based upon the Korean movie of the same name. ITV Studios America prodco Tomorrow Studios is making the show with Studio T, which like TNT, is part of Turner. The show is set seven years after the world has become a frozen […]
TNT has commissioned a pair of dramas, one of which reunites the US cablenet with Southland’s John Wells and Jonathan Lisco and the other coming from ITV’s Tomorrow Studios. The first show, Animal Kingdom, will run to ten episodes and is based on the film of the same name, while the other, Good Behavior, is […]
NBC is making an unprecedented move for a US broadcast network by launching the entire series of upcoming drama Aquarius just two hours after its linear TV debut. Releasing all 13 episodes of the show, which stars David Duchovny as an LA detective in 1967 investigating mass murderer Charles Manson, hours after it debuts is […]
