UK-based production company Honeybird Studios has announced a new creative partnership model for content development and unveils the first roster of creative partners. The creative partnerships foster development and production of co-owned unscripted formats – by combining forces to strengthen creative propositions, or creating new cross-genre collaborations. Honeybird Studios has partnered with: FilmNova, the premier […]
HBO has signed a two-year first-look television deal with writer, and producer Sharon Horgan – known for the likes of Bad Sisters, Motherland and Catastrophe – and her multi award-winning production company Merman. HBO has also given a straight-to-series order for a new original comedy series, the first project under this deal, from Horgan and […]
Production company Synchronicity Films (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Mayflies, The Tattooist’s Son: Journey to Auschwitz, The Cry) has optioned the rights to the internationally popular Isabel Dalhousie novels from best-selling author Sir Alexander McCall Smith. Award-winning screenwriter Andrea Gibb (Miss Austen, Mayflies, Elizabeth is Missing) is attached to adapt the novels for television and All3Media […]
Garden Studios has doubled its sound stage footprint with the opening of four new sound stages, bringing the total to eight. Now encompassing 98,000 sq. ft of stages, 90,000 sq ft of warehouse, 40,000 sq ft of production offices, and two large unit base lots over 30,000 sq ft each, making Garden Studios the largest […]
Big Light Productions – the producer behind Leonardo and The Man in the High Castle, led by writer and producer Frank Spotnitz – is serving as a co-producer on Black Spark Film & TV’s upcoming sci-fi drama series We Come in Peace for TV4 and ZDF. Alongside series creator and writer Lars Lundström (Real Humans), […]
Canadian independent producer Go Button Media has announced that it is in production on a second 6 x 60’ season of its popular series, The Animal Within. This series represents the second greenlight from its latest 36-hour slate deal with partners Autentic, a leading international distributor and producer of high-quality factual content, and Super Channel, […]
Channel 5 is piloting a new director training scheme, aimed at creating opportunities for diverse talent in episodic drama. The inaugural scheme, developed in collaboration with production company Clapperboard, is designed to provide emerging directors with the opportunity to step up into prime-time episodic drama. Clapperboard has selected Munir Malik as the first director to […]
Pascal Dalton, a seasoned television executive who has worked for some of the industry’s biggest distributors and producers, has launched Shimmer Media, a new business specialising in optimising scripted and non-scripted formats across the international media landscape. Shimmer Media aims to bring a fresh perspective to format management and monetisation – capitalising on Dalton’s experience […]
Tell Media, a technical production company based in York and London, is celebrating a period of rapid expansion, marked by a series of strategic announcements. Tell gas announced significant financial growth statistics, a new global office location along with a strengthened senior leadership team. The company, which was launched in late 2020, announced a turnover […]
Television production company Harry King TV is launching Harry King Unscripted with new format Curiosity, fronted by comedian Henning Wehn and TV presenter and antiques expert Raj Bisram. The production company will launch the format at the inaugural MIP London later this February. Curiosity is a new original unscripted format set in a shop that […]