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Happy Accidents boards Gnomes series as co-producer and distributor

LA-based film and TV studio Happy Accidents has joined forces with Australian production outfits Total Fiction and Screen Invaders to co-produce the highly anticipated new series Gnomes (6×30’). This twisted genre series has been commissioned by Stan in Australia and picked up by ZDFneo in Germany via production company Network Movie – a subsidiary of […]

February 19, 2025

El Estudio, Happy Accidents to adapt Here Come the Habibs

El Estudio, the Mexican production company, has picked up acclaimed Australian comedy format Here Come the Habibs for Mexican audiences from LA-based studio Happy Accidents. Here Come the Habibs, originally developed and produced in Australia for Channel 9, made television history as the first mainstream comedy series featuring a Middle Eastern family in a leading […]

January 15, 2025

Happy Accidents partners with Kevin & Co for The Sanctuary

LA-based film and TV studio Happy Accidents has announced its coproduction with leading New Zealand-based production company Kevin & Co on new original comedy series The Sanctuary (8×22’) developed with Warner Bros Discovery NZ. The Sanctuary is a comedy series following Hunter, an eccentric American billionaire hiding in New Zealand. After selling an innocuous app, […]

October 10, 2024

HAPPYBET, Sport1 partnership

Sport1 has agreed a long-term cooperation with HAPPYBET, the brand of Snaitech subsidiary Trinity Bet Operations, to offer betting related services both in Austria and in Germany. Throughout this collaboration, HAPPYBET will become the official sports betting partner of the No. 1 multichannel sports platform in German-speaking countries. On the HAPPYBET website, sports fans in […]

June 13, 2024

Happy Accidents appoints Calamity Jane’s Willis as SVP Creative Content

LA-based film and TV studio Happy Accidents has appointed Meredith Willis as SVP of Creative Content. Working in both Los Angeles and London, Willis will oversee development and production of feature and television projects. Willis joins after a tenure as the Director of Development for Ellen Pompeo’s Calamity Jane Entertainment under a deal with ABC […]

May 29, 2024

Trolls Happy Place in London this October

A happiness hideout is to open its glittery gates on October 6th, to coincide with World Smile Day and to celebrate the upcoming release of the new DreamWorks Animation film Trolls Band Together, in cinemas from October 20th. Trolls Happy Place is a smile-powered pop-up that will unlock 2,500 square feet of experiences inspired by […]

September 26, 2023

Serbia renews TV licences for existing broadcasters

Serbia’s Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) has renewed the broadcasting licences of the four existing national commercial TV broadcasters Pink, Prva, Happy and B92. The broadcasting regulator said that, as a result of the large interest in the tender, it has decided to offer a fifth commercial TV licence. Besides the four winners, there […]

August 1, 2022From Branislav Pekic in Rome