Amazon Studios thas commissioned the six-part unscripted series Our Man In… Japan with James May (presenter of The Grand Tour and Top Gear). The new UK Prime Original series will be directed by nominee Tom Whitter for Plum Pictures where it will be exec produced by Will Daws. The team start filming immediately and it […]
Brie Larson, star of Marvel’s latest cinematic blockbuster Captain Marvel, has taken a lead role in a new Apple original series. Apple has given a full season order for a CIA drama based on the life of a real intelligence officer. The forthcoming memoir Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA penned by Amaryllis Fox […]
Gabriel García Márquez’s literary masterwork One Hundred Years of Solitude is coming to screens – as a new series on Netflix. The streaming giant has acquired the rights to develop the acclaimed novel, considered to be one of the most significant works of the 20th Century, into a Netflix Spanish language original series. One Hundred […]
Netflix has announced that the stars will align on March 8th at Hollywood’s Dolby theatre for Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate, a 50th anniversary tribute to Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. The series, which spanned from 1968-1973, won two Emmy Awards at the helm of its legendary director/producer George Schlatter, who will also be attendance as […]
Insight TV, the 4K broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, is partnering with VICE Studios to create two, new shows following street football and eSports. These new series are being developed and produced by VICE Studios in Benelux, and will be broadcast globally on Insight TV. Premiering in Autumn 2019, the first series will […]
ITV Studios and Motion Content Group’s award-winning format Love Island has been commissioned by Three in New Zealand, taking the total number of original commissions to 12. Love Island NZ will be produced by ITV Studios Australia, in what will be its first production for a New Zealand network. The deal, which was brokered by […]
Netflix is set to produce a live action series based on Ann M. Martin’s best-selling book series, The Baby-Sitters Club. The family-friendly adaptation comes from Walden Media and Michael De Luca, who will executive produce. “I’m amazed that there are so many passionate fans of The Baby-Sitters Club after all these years, and I’m honoured […]
Spanish telco Telefónica has presented at MWC in Barcelona what it describes as an “innovative” way of broadcasting and producing television with 5G that allows professional news coverage of any event in real time and with high quality video. The solution, which relies on the 5G capacities of low latency, edge computing, and high bandwidth […]
With the dawning of the first Marvel Studios heroine-led film, Captain Marvel, cinema chain Cineworld is inviting movie fans to feel more of the action-packed movie by experiencing it in 270 degrees. The film will be the second Marvel movie to be released in ScreenX in the UK, with the immersive technology helping to transport […]
ESI Media – the commercial division of newspapers London Evening Standard, The Independent and local TV service London Live – is partnering with UK broadcaster Sky to host an exclusive first look of the full episode of new street race drama, Curfew. The show will be available across both the Evening Standard’s and the Independent’s […]