BBC Series ‘Babies’ About Pregnancy Loss – starring New Severus Snape Paapa Essiedu – bets on ‘glorious chaos and mess,’ and love: ‘It’s all that matters.’ BBC Series “Babies,” which premiered at Series Mania, shows a loving couple – and its family and friends – dealing with the heartbreak of pregnancy loss. “I have experienced…
TaiwanPlus and GoldenTV have entered a programming partnership that will see Taiwanese content made available through GoldenTV’s cable and streaming operations in the U.S. TaiwanPlus will supply a selection of its programming to GoldenTV’s distribution network, with the aim of reaching both Asian American and Pacific Islander viewers and the wider American public. The centerpiece…
Europe needs to remember how to “tell its own story.” That was the loud and clear message from an impassioned, almost Churchillian speech by Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset this morning, as he gets set to sign a landmark international co-production treaty that its backers believe will signal an “era of new alliances.”…
International sales and financing outfit Global Constellation has boarded five-episode limited series “Heaven’s Gate” for global sales. The company is presenting the series to international buyers for the first time at Series Mania. Set across dual timelines in 1942 and the mid-1990s, “Heaven’s Gate” follows Saskia, a woman who travels to Indonesia with her teenage…
Even as Studio N notches hits on Netflix, Disney+ and Crunchyroll, earns Emmy nominations and breaks Korean box-office records, its CEO says the company is still making the case for webcomic IP to much of the Western entertainment industry. “Webcomics are still relatively new to many people in Western markets,” Mikyung (Michelle) Kwon tells Variety….
EXCLUSIVE: A chance encounter between a German-Brazilian interpreter and Swedish Crown Prince is the inspiration for Queen Silvia, a glossy drama series for Prime Video. Cameras are rolling on the big-ticket production, about one of Europe’s iconic royal love stories. Prime Video has the show for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Nordics. SAT.1 will show…
Munich-based Autentic has nabbed international rights to the award-winning Swiss docuseries “Game Over – The Fall of Credit Suisse,” Simon Helbling’s chronicle of the once mighty Swiss bank’s dramatic 2023 collapse and its takeover by rival UBS. Written and directed by Helbling and co-penned by journalist Arthur Rutishauser, the four-part series explores the reality behind…
Hagai Levi, reknown for “The Affair” and “In Treatment,” is testing new waters with “Etty” – a story he has wanted to tell for 10 years. Based on Etty Hillesum’s diaries, the show stars Julia Windischbauer, Sebastian Koch, Leopold Witte, Gijs Naber and Claire Bender. Currently screened at Series Mania following its Venice premiere, it…
Four African screenwriters will be pitching their original TV projects to industry guests on Tuesday at the 17th Series Mania in Lille, France. The quartet are the latest participants in the Realness Institute’s AuthenticA Series Lab, an episodic screenwriting program run in partnership with The StoryBoard Collective, and with support from the Canada Media Fund…
All3Media International has announced a slew of international pre-sales for upcoming espionage thriller “Secret Service,” starring Gemma Arterton. Produced by Potboiler Productions and adapted from the novel by ITV News anchor Tom Bradby, “Secret Service” explores the world of espionage against the backdrop of escalating tensions between the U.K. and Russia. The series follows senior…
