Torfinnur Jákupsson, creator of Nordic crime series Trom, has announced the launch of Red Herring Story, a new London-based development company ahead of Series Mania. A UK affiliate of GRÓ Studios, the first Faroese film and television studio founded in 2022, Red Herring Story will develop scripted and unscripted thrillers, with an international co-production focus. […]
Sensethefuture Pictures, a broadcast-led company, is resuming the development of crime documentary series for audiences in the UK, Europe, and the US. Founder and CEO Teresa Potocka has an extensive track record in management, scaling operations, building organisations and developing new technology products from scratch, including an OTT TV prototype platform for the Benelux region. […]
Mediawan, the independent European audiovisual content studio, has announced its partnership with the UK and Australian-based independent production company See-Saw Films through the acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in the company. See-Saw was founded in 2008 by Joint CEOs Emile Sherman and Iain Canning, and has produced a string of celebrated TV and […]
Lightware, a provider of innovative connectivity solutions for the professional AV industry, has announcd that it’s UK office has a new collaboration with Paragon Projection, a key player in AV rentals for live event production. This partnership will significantly enhance the UK market’s access to high-quality Lightware products, enabling event production companies to leverage advanced […]
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, […]