Channel 4 has commissioned Girl Powered:The Spice Girls (working title), a documentary series from 72 Films. Using hundreds of hours of archive footage and revealing interviews, the series tells the complete story of the best-selling girl band of all time. Starting from the group’s formation in the mid ‘90s amidst the backdrop of ‘ladette culture’, […]
French entertainment company Satisfaction Group, founded by producer and TV anchorman Arthur Essebag, has acquired Sony Pictures Television France’s unscripted activity as well as STP company Starling. Satisfaction Group now becomes the exclusive producer of SPT’s formats in France and, in parallel, Sony Pictures Television takes a 20 per cent of its stake in Satisfy. […]
Sky Studios Elstree, the UK’s new state-of-the-art film and TV studio, has received the green light to proceed with construction works following a unanimous decision by Hertsmere Borough Council. The development represents a significant investment in the UK and European creative economy and will be made with the backing of Sky’s owner Comcast and in […]
Amazon Studios has secured exclusive rights to develop The New York Times’ and Ellen Barry’s acclaimed story and podcast, The Jungle Prince of Delhi – a story of the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats living in a ruined palace in the Indian capital, claiming to be the heirs to a fallen kingdom. Renowned […]
NBC is bringing back renowned international game show Weakest Link, co-produced by BBC Studios’ Los Angeles production arm and Universal Television Alternative Studio. The US network has greenlit 13 episodes of the rapid-fire quiz show with Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning host and actress Jane Lynch set to host and executive produce. Weakest Link will […]
Netflix has announced the new Belgian series Soil. The original screenplay is based on the idea by Zouzou Ben Chikha, Dries Heyneman and Wannes Capelle. Belgian directors and screenwriters, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life), will direct the series alongside Mathieu Mortelmans (Unité 42, Gent West, Vermist). Netflix is partnering with […]
HBO Max has ordered a 12-episode season of the new, 2D animated series, Young Love, based on the characters introduced in the Academy Award-winning short film, Hair Love from Oscar winner Matthew A. Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation. The new series for HBO Max is created by Cherry, who will showrun with long-time animation creative Carl Jones (The […]
Ativist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is set to feature in an exclusive docuseries produced by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal with The Walt Disney Company. The deal between Kaepernick’s production arm, Ra Vision Media, and Disney will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice and […]
Oliver Dowden, the UK Culture Secretary, has brokered agreements that will allow selected international sporting events and production on some of the biggest film and television productions to get underway safely this summer, in a major boost for the nation and its economy. A number of sports stars and their support teams, alongside international film […]
The French Film and audiovisual sectors (TV, radio, video) have suffered a €4.9 billion drop in activity during the Covid-19 crisis, which represents 20 per cent of their global 2020 turnover. The figures released by French ministry of Culture, working on the hypothesis that there won’t be a second lockdown, forecasts that the Covid-19 impact […]