In a big strategic market swing, The Mediapro Studio is creating new U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles to double down on U.S. and English-language production for the U.S. and global market.
Laura Fernández Espeso, The Mediapro Studio CEO, has also confirmed Juan “Jc” Acosta, the ex high-flying Paramount exec, as head of the newly created division, The Mediapro Studio U.S./Canada.
Based out of Century City, the new U.S. operation will develop, produce and distribute for a global market English-language scripted, non-scripted reality and entertainment, documentaries and features, said Fernández Espeso, Variety’s 2024 International Media Woman of the Year.
That’s exactly the same broad-based production model that The Mediapro Studio has in Spain and Latin America, she noted.
The Los Angeles operation will incorporate existing Tms offices in Miami and New York, as well as Grup Mediapro’s new production facility at Great Point Studios in Yonkers,...
Laura Fernández Espeso, The Mediapro Studio CEO, has also confirmed Juan “Jc” Acosta, the ex high-flying Paramount exec, as head of the newly created division, The Mediapro Studio U.S./Canada.
Based out of Century City, the new U.S. operation will develop, produce and distribute for a global market English-language scripted, non-scripted reality and entertainment, documentaries and features, said Fernández Espeso, Variety’s 2024 International Media Woman of the Year.
That’s exactly the same broad-based production model that The Mediapro Studio has in Spain and Latin America, she noted.
The Los Angeles operation will incorporate existing Tms offices in Miami and New York, as well as Grup Mediapro’s new production facility at Great Point Studios in Yonkers,...
- 5/13/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
No surprises there: Sex and crime still work when it comes to attracting viewers. But even when playing with familiar tropes, it’s crucial to add complexity to stories and characters, Fremantle’s Jamie Lynn argued on a roof table at the Berlinale Series Market.
“Easy is not always best. You still need to back great writers and great ideas,” he said during a panel discussion “Cold Cases & Hot Flashes – The Rise of Crime and Relationship Dramas in Challenging Times,” organized by the Audiovisual Producers Finland (Apfi).
“I have kids and before this, I said: ‘You have to put cheese on the vegetables in order to get them down.’ We have to make the shows that are approachable, but all this complexity and great, rich character work, that’s what people want. We just need to get them in quicker.”
Lynn was presenting new pickup “The Revenge,” described as “The Talented Mr. Ripley...
“Easy is not always best. You still need to back great writers and great ideas,” he said during a panel discussion “Cold Cases & Hot Flashes – The Rise of Crime and Relationship Dramas in Challenging Times,” organized by the Audiovisual Producers Finland (Apfi).
“I have kids and before this, I said: ‘You have to put cheese on the vegetables in order to get them down.’ We have to make the shows that are approachable, but all this complexity and great, rich character work, that’s what people want. We just need to get them in quicker.”
Lynn was presenting new pickup “The Revenge,” described as “The Talented Mr. Ripley...
- 2/19/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
In perhaps one of her meatiest roles since Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” Oscar-nominated thesp Yalitza Aparicio stars in Prime Video’s upcoming series “Cometierra,” created by its showrunner Daniel Burman, The Mediapro Studio’s head of content for the U.S., Mexico and Central America.
Principal photography is underway, predominantly in Mexico, with some scenes shot in Uruguay.
Inspired by the bestselling debut novel of Argentine writer-activist Dolores Reyes, “Cometierra,” meaning Eartheater in English, is a supernatural drama steeped in magical realism that follows Aylín, a young girl from the rough outskirts of Mexico City.
She unexpectedly gains the extraordinary ability to commune with the earth beneath her feet, a gift that propels her into a world of crime-solving and clashes with malevolent forces lurking in her past. With the help of her fellow misfits, Aylín finds her true identity while navigating a community plagued by violence and grappling with...
Principal photography is underway, predominantly in Mexico, with some scenes shot in Uruguay.
Inspired by the bestselling debut novel of Argentine writer-activist Dolores Reyes, “Cometierra,” meaning Eartheater in English, is a supernatural drama steeped in magical realism that follows Aylín, a young girl from the rough outskirts of Mexico City.
She unexpectedly gains the extraordinary ability to commune with the earth beneath her feet, a gift that propels her into a world of crime-solving and clashes with malevolent forces lurking in her past. With the help of her fellow misfits, Aylín finds her true identity while navigating a community plagued by violence and grappling with...
- 10/23/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
The Mediapro Studio will shoot from November Season 3 of “The Head,” its biggest international hit, filming in the Sahara Desert with John Lynch (“The Fall”) and Katharine O’Donnelly (“Mary Queen of Scots), attached once more to star.
Olivia Morris also returns to her role as Rachel Russo, the morally conscionable daughter of ambition-crazed biologist Arthur Wilde, played by Lynch.
“The Head” Season 1 took place at an Antarctic research station cut off in winter, Season 2 on a hulking freighter at mid-Pacific’s Point Nemo, the most distant place on earth from nearest land.
“The locations for this series have been a fundamental part of the show itself, always in an inaccessible place,” Laura Fernández Espeso, The Mediapro Studio CEO, told Variety before talking at a Mipcom Media Mastermind Keynote on Tuesday.
“This time we’ll be shooting in the desert: ‘The Head 3’ will take place in an unknown place in the Sahara desert,...
Olivia Morris also returns to her role as Rachel Russo, the morally conscionable daughter of ambition-crazed biologist Arthur Wilde, played by Lynch.
“The Head” Season 1 took place at an Antarctic research station cut off in winter, Season 2 on a hulking freighter at mid-Pacific’s Point Nemo, the most distant place on earth from nearest land.
“The locations for this series have been a fundamental part of the show itself, always in an inaccessible place,” Laura Fernández Espeso, The Mediapro Studio CEO, told Variety before talking at a Mipcom Media Mastermind Keynote on Tuesday.
“This time we’ll be shooting in the desert: ‘The Head 3’ will take place in an unknown place in the Sahara desert,...
- 10/17/2023
- by John Hopewell and Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
“The Head,” The Mediapro Studio’s biggest hit, is advancing towards a third season, Ran Tellem, Tms head of international content development, confirmed Tuesday at Iberseries & Industria Platino.
“‘The Head’ started out something like four years ago as a limited series only for six episodes and now it’s going into third season, so you might say we never lived up to our promises,” Tellem joked on stage at an early Iberseries panel, entitled Creative Content Strategies, where he shared the stage with former Netflix international head Erik Barmack, now at L.A.-based Wild Sheep Content.
Season 3 has yet to receive a production greenlight. The Mediapro Studio aims to produce ‘The Head,’ Season 3 out of Spain. Beyond that, Tellem gave few details. Currently in development, the series is being written by writers from four countries in three different continents.
“What we do each season in order to keep the...
“‘The Head’ started out something like four years ago as a limited series only for six episodes and now it’s going into third season, so you might say we never lived up to our promises,” Tellem joked on stage at an early Iberseries panel, entitled Creative Content Strategies, where he shared the stage with former Netflix international head Erik Barmack, now at L.A.-based Wild Sheep Content.
Season 3 has yet to receive a production greenlight. The Mediapro Studio aims to produce ‘The Head,’ Season 3 out of Spain. Beyond that, Tellem gave few details. Currently in development, the series is being written by writers from four countries in three different continents.
“What we do each season in order to keep the...
- 10/3/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Updated: Ron Leshem, creator of the original Israeli “Euphoria” and an exec producer on its U.S. version, has been added to Iberseries & Platino Industria’s conference strand – signalling a larger paradigm pivot at one of the biggest film-tv events in the Spanish-speaking world as it expands to encompass an ever more globalized international TV scene.
Fresh off a huge hit on Israel’s Reshet 13 for Series Mania buzz title “Red Skies,” at Iberseries, Leshem, who co-created “Valley of Tears” and “No Man’s Land,” joins some of the most influential voices on the Spanish-speaking film-tv and beyond such as former Netflix exec Erik Barmack at Wild Sheep Content, Ran Tellem at The Mediapro Studio and Axel Kuschevatzky at Infinity Hill. Wild Sheep has a production alliance with Tms.
At Netflix, Barmack oversaw Netflix’s first-ever push into fully foreign-language content beginning with Mexico’s “Club of Crows” and Brazil’s...
Fresh off a huge hit on Israel’s Reshet 13 for Series Mania buzz title “Red Skies,” at Iberseries, Leshem, who co-created “Valley of Tears” and “No Man’s Land,” joins some of the most influential voices on the Spanish-speaking film-tv and beyond such as former Netflix exec Erik Barmack at Wild Sheep Content, Ran Tellem at The Mediapro Studio and Axel Kuschevatzky at Infinity Hill. Wild Sheep has a production alliance with Tms.
At Netflix, Barmack oversaw Netflix’s first-ever push into fully foreign-language content beginning with Mexico’s “Club of Crows” and Brazil’s...
- 7/25/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish titles at MipTV:
“The Argonauts and the Golden Coin,” (Rtve)
A live action kids adventure, targeting 8-12s, from national public broadcaster Rtve and Galician powerhouse Portocabo as Rtve drives into regional co-production. Set over a summer in Galicia and inspired by the spirit of “The Famous Five” and “The Goonies,” translated to the 21st century.
“The Caravan,” (Cabal Films)
Selected for the inaugural MipDoc International Buyer Screenings, a first-person account of an eight-month pregnant woman in a caravan of Central American immigrants heading to the U.S.
“Dating in Barcelona,” (Filmax)
The latest from Filmax, behind “The Red Band Society” and “They All Lie,” following different romantic encounters of people who have met online.
“Dover: Die for Rock & Roll,” (Begin Again Films)
Doc feature on the Seattle/Jean Jett-inspired Spanish band, behind “Devil Came to Me,” and icon of late ‘90s Spanish alternative pop rock.
“Greenpeace,” (Zona Mixta...
“The Argonauts and the Golden Coin,” (Rtve)
A live action kids adventure, targeting 8-12s, from national public broadcaster Rtve and Galician powerhouse Portocabo as Rtve drives into regional co-production. Set over a summer in Galicia and inspired by the spirit of “The Famous Five” and “The Goonies,” translated to the 21st century.
“The Caravan,” (Cabal Films)
Selected for the inaugural MipDoc International Buyer Screenings, a first-person account of an eight-month pregnant woman in a caravan of Central American immigrants heading to the U.S.
“Dating in Barcelona,” (Filmax)
The latest from Filmax, behind “The Red Band Society” and “They All Lie,” following different romantic encounters of people who have met online.
“Dover: Die for Rock & Roll,” (Begin Again Films)
Doc feature on the Seattle/Jean Jett-inspired Spanish band, behind “Devil Came to Me,” and icon of late ‘90s Spanish alternative pop rock.
“Greenpeace,” (Zona Mixta...
- 4/14/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Mediapro Studio is teaming with Spanish director Jorge Dorado and author Cuca Canals on detective thriller “The Young Poe” in a bid to build a second English-language international franchise on the heels and of the scale of “The Head,” sold to 90-plus territories and Tms’ biggest breakout hit to date.
Enrolling one of the biggest IPs in literary history, Edgar Allen Poe, the series adapts the hit novel saga of Spain’s Cuca Canals, co-screenwriter of Bigas Luna’s celebrated “Jamón Jamón” movie trilogy.
Canals’ novels imagine Poe as a precocious, irrepressible, neurotic and highly Gothic 11 or 12 year-old in 1820 Boston, grounding in true events of Poe’s childhood the extraordinarily analytical and morbid mind which Edgar Allen Poe brings to his fiction – whether 1841’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” commonly regarded as the first modern detective story, or the horror short stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher.
Enrolling one of the biggest IPs in literary history, Edgar Allen Poe, the series adapts the hit novel saga of Spain’s Cuca Canals, co-screenwriter of Bigas Luna’s celebrated “Jamón Jamón” movie trilogy.
Canals’ novels imagine Poe as a precocious, irrepressible, neurotic and highly Gothic 11 or 12 year-old in 1820 Boston, grounding in true events of Poe’s childhood the extraordinarily analytical and morbid mind which Edgar Allen Poe brings to his fiction – whether 1841’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” commonly regarded as the first modern detective story, or the horror short stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher.
- 3/16/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Mediapro Studio, one of Europe’s biggest super indies, is mulling the development of a third season to English-language suspense survival thriller “The Head,” its biggest hit to date in terms of production values, commercial punch and artistic ambition.
Ran Tellem, Tms international content development head would return as show-runner and creator and Jorge Dorado, who helmed all of Season 1 and 2 and was very much involved in S2’s creative development, would serve as the third season director.
Broken to Variety by Tms CEO Laura Fernández Espeso at a Madrid junket last week for “The Head, Season 2,” news of a possible instalment comes as “The Head,” Season 2, world premieres Dec. 22 on HBO Max in the U.S. and Spain and in early 2023 on Canal+ in France.
Its sales success underscores key dynamics reshaping a new international TV production scene.
“It’s obvious that many global streamers have announced changes...
Ran Tellem, Tms international content development head would return as show-runner and creator and Jorge Dorado, who helmed all of Season 1 and 2 and was very much involved in S2’s creative development, would serve as the third season director.
Broken to Variety by Tms CEO Laura Fernández Espeso at a Madrid junket last week for “The Head, Season 2,” news of a possible instalment comes as “The Head,” Season 2, world premieres Dec. 22 on HBO Max in the U.S. and Spain and in early 2023 on Canal+ in France.
Its sales success underscores key dynamics reshaping a new international TV production scene.
“It’s obvious that many global streamers have announced changes...
- 12/22/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Mediapro Studio has dropped a teaser for “The Head” Season 2, with first footage in the run-up to its simultaneous premiere on HBO Max in the U.S. and Spain on Dec. 22.
Season 2 rolls off a first season which has proved one of Spain’s biggest breakout hits, sold by the The Mediapro Studio Distribution to over 90 countries including top-echelon players HBO Max for the U.S., plus Starzplay, Canal Plus (France), and Amazon’s Prime Video.
It also played to positive critical reactions. “Watching this, I could practically feel the ice crystals forming on my beard – and I don’t even have a beard,” Suzi Feay wrote in The Financial Times.
Produced once more in association with Hulu Japan, Season 2, whose teaser-trailer has been shared in exclusivity with Variety, is described by Tms as an “action-packed suspense thriller.” Nothing in the teaser belies that billing. Season 2 retains many of...
Season 2 rolls off a first season which has proved one of Spain’s biggest breakout hits, sold by the The Mediapro Studio Distribution to over 90 countries including top-echelon players HBO Max for the U.S., plus Starzplay, Canal Plus (France), and Amazon’s Prime Video.
It also played to positive critical reactions. “Watching this, I could practically feel the ice crystals forming on my beard – and I don’t even have a beard,” Suzi Feay wrote in The Financial Times.
Produced once more in association with Hulu Japan, Season 2, whose teaser-trailer has been shared in exclusivity with Variety, is described by Tms as an “action-packed suspense thriller.” Nothing in the teaser belies that billing. Season 2 retains many of...
- 12/1/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max is set to premiere in exclusivity “The Head” Season 2 in Spain on Dec. 22.
As a preview, on Nov. 1, HBO Max will release the first full season of “The Head,” which was originally bowed in Spain by Orange. The second season will be made available in a marathon format, HBO Max and The Mediapro Studio announced Thursday.
HBO Max has already released “The Head” Season 1 in the U.S. and Latin America.
The biggest hit to date from The Mediapro Studio, opening in over 90 territories worldwide, “The Head” Season 2 sees Season 1’s two survivors – renowned biologist Arthur Wilde (John Lynch), head of Polaris VI’s scientific mission, and Maggie (Katharine O’Donnelly), the station’s young doctor – now on board the Alexandria, a massive scientific freighter that houses a major laboratory, where Wilde, who has escaped from jail, carries out a crucial mission in the fight against climate change, to...
As a preview, on Nov. 1, HBO Max will release the first full season of “The Head,” which was originally bowed in Spain by Orange. The second season will be made available in a marathon format, HBO Max and The Mediapro Studio announced Thursday.
HBO Max has already released “The Head” Season 1 in the U.S. and Latin America.
The biggest hit to date from The Mediapro Studio, opening in over 90 territories worldwide, “The Head” Season 2 sees Season 1’s two survivors – renowned biologist Arthur Wilde (John Lynch), head of Polaris VI’s scientific mission, and Maggie (Katharine O’Donnelly), the station’s young doctor – now on board the Alexandria, a massive scientific freighter that houses a major laboratory, where Wilde, who has escaped from jail, carries out a crucial mission in the fight against climate change, to...
- 10/27/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The setting for “The Head” Season 2, the second part of one of Spain’s biggest breakout hits, is a massive ocean freighter at the Pacific Ocean’s Nemo Point, the most remote place on earth, 1,681 miles from land.
The set for many of its interiors, including the freighter’s high-tech research lab, is slightly more accessible – Villaviciosa de Odón, 8 miles from central Madrid. A set visit on Wednesday said much about one of Spain’s biggest upcoming TV swings, now building into a franchise. Following, six takeaways:
Sell it Again, Sam
Many series only move into profit in their second season. That’s most probably not the case of “The Head,” whose first instalment has already hit gold dust, selling to over 90 countries, including HBO Max for the U.S, for producer The Mediapro Studio. Other buyers take in best-of-class players: HBO (Latin America and HBO Asia), Starzplay, Canal Plus (France), Amazon’s Prime Video,...
The set for many of its interiors, including the freighter’s high-tech research lab, is slightly more accessible – Villaviciosa de Odón, 8 miles from central Madrid. A set visit on Wednesday said much about one of Spain’s biggest upcoming TV swings, now building into a franchise. Following, six takeaways:
Sell it Again, Sam
Many series only move into profit in their second season. That’s most probably not the case of “The Head,” whose first instalment has already hit gold dust, selling to over 90 countries, including HBO Max for the U.S, for producer The Mediapro Studio. Other buyers take in best-of-class players: HBO (Latin America and HBO Asia), Starzplay, Canal Plus (France), Amazon’s Prime Video,...
- 7/14/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid-based The Mediapro Studio, one of Europe’s super-indies, is re-teaming with Hulu Japan to produce Season 2 of thriller “The Head,” the studio’s hit drama series whose Season 1 was broadcast in more than 90 countries.
The English-language shoot has got underway in Tenerife, in Spain’s The Canary Islands, helmed by Jorge Dorado, who directed Season 1.
“The Head” Season 2 boasts an extensive international cast led once again by John Lynch and Katharine O’Donnelly.
Joining them for Season 2, the series features Hovik Keuchkerian, Moe Dunford (“Texas Chainsaw Massacre”), Josefin Nelden (“The Restaurant”) and Olivia Morris (“Hotel Portofino”).
Season 2’s newest additions in leading roles take in Enrique Arce, Nora Ríos and Tania Watson, Thierry Godard and the special collaboration of Japan’s Sota Fukushi (“Bleach”).
If Season 1 was set at a remote polar research station, the principal setting for “The Head” Season 2 will once again be an isolated and inaccessible location,...
The English-language shoot has got underway in Tenerife, in Spain’s The Canary Islands, helmed by Jorge Dorado, who directed Season 1.
“The Head” Season 2 boasts an extensive international cast led once again by John Lynch and Katharine O’Donnelly.
Joining them for Season 2, the series features Hovik Keuchkerian, Moe Dunford (“Texas Chainsaw Massacre”), Josefin Nelden (“The Restaurant”) and Olivia Morris (“Hotel Portofino”).
Season 2’s newest additions in leading roles take in Enrique Arce, Nora Ríos and Tania Watson, Thierry Godard and the special collaboration of Japan’s Sota Fukushi (“Bleach”).
If Season 1 was set at a remote polar research station, the principal setting for “The Head” Season 2 will once again be an isolated and inaccessible location,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
The Mediapro Studio Distribution has confirmed a flurry of new sales deals on “The Head,” “Paraíso,” “Express” and “Hunting Ana Bravo” and state-of-play roll-out on the first two titles which underscores a still bullish demand for high-end titles sold on the open market at events such as last week’s MipTV.
The sales also have a bigger picture. With major studio sales to third parties plunging as they retain productions for their own platforms – Netflix carried 748 Disney titles in 2015, just 221 in 2021, according to Ampere Analysis – it’s a great time to be an independent, the consultancy’s Guy Bisson announced at MipTV. The Mediapro Studio’s latest sales details are also yet another indication of how geographical and language-targeted pay and global platform deals are driving so much of open market sales business for big independent players.
‘The Head’
In a new deal, Canadian public-broadcaster CBC-src has clinched rights to English-language survival thriller “The Head,...
The sales also have a bigger picture. With major studio sales to third parties plunging as they retain productions for their own platforms – Netflix carried 748 Disney titles in 2015, just 221 in 2021, according to Ampere Analysis – it’s a great time to be an independent, the consultancy’s Guy Bisson announced at MipTV. The Mediapro Studio’s latest sales details are also yet another indication of how geographical and language-targeted pay and global platform deals are driving so much of open market sales business for big independent players.
‘The Head’
In a new deal, Canadian public-broadcaster CBC-src has clinched rights to English-language survival thriller “The Head,...
- 4/11/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Very few The Mediapro Studio shows, indeed very few Spanish series in general, have lit a fire on the open market like “The Head,” an Antarctic-set thriller which lifts off as a murder mystery to constantly evolve into other realms.
Starring Álvaro Morte, “Money Heist’s” Professor and Japanese pop idol Tomohisa Yamashita, written by Alex and David Pastor and directed by Jorge Dorado, “The Head” broke viewership records on co-financiers Hulu Japan and HBO Asia and sold to over 90 countries including HBO in the U.S.
The Mediapro Studio retained IP. “Sales opened doors to new markets and clients with whom we hadn’t worked before,” said Laura Fernández Espeso, CEO of The Mediapro Studio. It also began blazing a trail for Tms’s drive into English-language series, one of its biggest ambitions.
Yet a sequel was, by any measure, a tall order. Season 1 was always conceived as a limited series , notes Ran Tellem,...
Starring Álvaro Morte, “Money Heist’s” Professor and Japanese pop idol Tomohisa Yamashita, written by Alex and David Pastor and directed by Jorge Dorado, “The Head” broke viewership records on co-financiers Hulu Japan and HBO Asia and sold to over 90 countries including HBO in the U.S.
The Mediapro Studio retained IP. “Sales opened doors to new markets and clients with whom we hadn’t worked before,” said Laura Fernández Espeso, CEO of The Mediapro Studio. It also began blazing a trail for Tms’s drive into English-language series, one of its biggest ambitions.
Yet a sequel was, by any measure, a tall order. Season 1 was always conceived as a limited series , notes Ran Tellem,...
- 3/24/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Mediapro Studio has unveiled first key cast for Season 2 of crime thriller “The Head,” one of its biggest international hits, with John Lynch and Katharine O’Donnelly reprising their lead roles as biologist Arthur Wilde and young doctor Maggie Mitchell.
They will be joined by the Spanish actor of Armenian-Lebanese origin Hovik Keuchkerian who shot to fame playing Moscow in “Money Heist,” as well as Ireland’s Moe Dunford (“Vikings”), Sweden’s Josefin Nelden (“The Restaurant”) and British thesp Olivia Morris (“Hotel Portofino”). More substantial name cast will be announced in upcoming weeks.
A huge global hit for The Mediapro Studio, the production-distribution arm of media giant Mediapro, “The Head” is heralded by the company as a model for high-end success: It clinched some 25 distribution deals and aired in 90 countries, allowed The Mediapro Studio to retain a large part of the IP and promised to become the basis for a franchise.
They will be joined by the Spanish actor of Armenian-Lebanese origin Hovik Keuchkerian who shot to fame playing Moscow in “Money Heist,” as well as Ireland’s Moe Dunford (“Vikings”), Sweden’s Josefin Nelden (“The Restaurant”) and British thesp Olivia Morris (“Hotel Portofino”). More substantial name cast will be announced in upcoming weeks.
A huge global hit for The Mediapro Studio, the production-distribution arm of media giant Mediapro, “The Head” is heralded by the company as a model for high-end success: It clinched some 25 distribution deals and aired in 90 countries, allowed The Mediapro Studio to retain a large part of the IP and promised to become the basis for a franchise.
- 3/3/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Often prophetically ahead of real-life realpolitik, Showtime’s Homeland came to a very insurgent end earlier this year after eight seasons. The series’ conclusion was both unconventional and satisfying, Emmy winner Claire Danes said during Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event.
“There was something subversive for us on ending with Carrie smiling,” the actor who portrayed brilliant but troubled former CIA officer Carrie Mathison on the show executive produced by Alex Gansa, who joined Danes on the panel. “She’s sacrificed so much and she is in a version of Hell, but her spirit is intact,” she added of a seemingly duplicitous Carrie now ensconced in Moscow as a double agent with Yevgeny Gromov (played by Costa Ronin).
“I was really happy with the shape of the final season,” Danes said of Homeland’s much-planned final 12 episodes that concluded in April. “I thought it was really smart to have Carrie...
“There was something subversive for us on ending with Carrie smiling,” the actor who portrayed brilliant but troubled former CIA officer Carrie Mathison on the show executive produced by Alex Gansa, who joined Danes on the panel. “She’s sacrificed so much and she is in a version of Hell, but her spirit is intact,” she added of a seemingly duplicitous Carrie now ensconced in Moscow as a double agent with Yevgeny Gromov (played by Costa Ronin).
“I was really happy with the shape of the final season,” Danes said of Homeland’s much-planned final 12 episodes that concluded in April. “I thought it was really smart to have Carrie...
- 6/20/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Showtime released a new trailer for the long-awaited final season of “Homeland” at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, California, on Monday.
Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin return as counterterrorism specialists for the eighth and final season, which sees Carrie (Danes) suffering some trauma and falling under suspicion from the U.S. government after spending time as a Russian prisoner.
The only person who trusts her is Saul (Patinkin), now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges), who asks Carrie to walk with him into the lion’s den – one last time.
Also Read: Showtime Boss on 'Homeland' Final Season Delay: 'We'd Rather Have It Good Than Fast'
Along with Danes and Patinkin, the final season stars Maury Sterling, Linus Roache and Costa Ronin, with Nimrat Kaur and Numan Acar also returning from Season 4 in series regular roles. Sam Trammell and Hugh Dancy...
Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin return as counterterrorism specialists for the eighth and final season, which sees Carrie (Danes) suffering some trauma and falling under suspicion from the U.S. government after spending time as a Russian prisoner.
The only person who trusts her is Saul (Patinkin), now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges), who asks Carrie to walk with him into the lion’s den – one last time.
Also Read: Showtime Boss on 'Homeland' Final Season Delay: 'We'd Rather Have It Good Than Fast'
Along with Danes and Patinkin, the final season stars Maury Sterling, Linus Roache and Costa Ronin, with Nimrat Kaur and Numan Acar also returning from Season 4 in series regular roles. Sam Trammell and Hugh Dancy...
- 1/13/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Cliff Chamberlain (State of Affairs) has been cast in a major recurring role on the upcoming eighth and final season of Showtime’s Homeland. Also set for a recurring role on the Showtime drama series is Hilary Jardine (Van Helsing).
Chamberlain will play Mike Dunne, the CIA Station Chief in Kabul, Afghanistan. This is the post held by Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) at the top of Season 4.
The so-long season of Homeland will feature a nod to Season 4, which was set in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with that season’s heavily recurring players, Nimrat Kaur and Numan Acar, reprising their roles.
Jardine plays Claudatte Fletcher, a former State Department employee turned freelance consultant with a global network of assets.
The final chapter of Homeland finds Carrie (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem...
Chamberlain will play Mike Dunne, the CIA Station Chief in Kabul, Afghanistan. This is the post held by Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) at the top of Season 4.
The so-long season of Homeland will feature a nod to Season 4, which was set in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with that season’s heavily recurring players, Nimrat Kaur and Numan Acar, reprising their roles.
Jardine plays Claudatte Fletcher, a former State Department employee turned freelance consultant with a global network of assets.
The final chapter of Homeland finds Carrie (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem...
- 8/14/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Homeland will have the longest hiatus between seasons, with the drama’s final eighth season set to premiere February 9, two years after Season 7, which debuted on February 11 2018.
The final season originallywas scheduled to premiere in June 2019. The launch subsequently was moved to the end of 2019, and the date has now been finalized.
At Showtime’s TCA executive session, the network’s President of Entertainment Gary Levine stressed that the delays are related to the demands of filming and no creative or other issues.
“Homeland is an ambitious series, and especially in its final season,” he said. “[Showrunner] Alex [Gansa[ wants to go out proudly, and he’s going to. And that has involved production in multiple countries, and, at times, in places that have some issues just takes time.”
Levine added: “There have been no missteps here. It’s been a relatively smooth process but a very ambitious production schedule that has just taken more time than we hoped it would. And one of the things we do at Showtime is we’d rather have it good than fast. And that’s...
The final season originallywas scheduled to premiere in June 2019. The launch subsequently was moved to the end of 2019, and the date has now been finalized.
At Showtime’s TCA executive session, the network’s President of Entertainment Gary Levine stressed that the delays are related to the demands of filming and no creative or other issues.
“Homeland is an ambitious series, and especially in its final season,” he said. “[Showrunner] Alex [Gansa[ wants to go out proudly, and he’s going to. And that has involved production in multiple countries, and, at times, in places that have some issues just takes time.”
Levine added: “There have been no missteps here. It’s been a relatively smooth process but a very ambitious production schedule that has just taken more time than we hoped it would. And one of the things we do at Showtime is we’d rather have it good than fast. And that’s...
- 8/2/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Showtime has set the return for the eighth and final season of Homeland. The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning hit drama series will premiere on Sunday, February 9 at 9 Pm. Starring Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin, the acclaimed series is currently in production on its final 12 episodes. The date was announced Friday during Showtime’s presentation at the TCA summer press tour.
The final season was originally scheduled to premiere in June, but because of the demands of filming internationally, it was moved to the end of the year, and now has been pushed into in 2020. Its seventh season also launched in February.
The final season of Homeland finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul (Patinkin), now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges). The top...
The final season was originally scheduled to premiere in June, but because of the demands of filming internationally, it was moved to the end of the year, and now has been pushed into in 2020. Its seventh season also launched in February.
The final season of Homeland finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul (Patinkin), now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges). The top...
- 8/2/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Hugh Dancy will guest star on the eighth and final season of “Homeland.”
Dancy, who is married to the show’s star Claire Danes, will appear in a multi-episode arc as John Zabel, the president’s new foreign-policy advisor and Saul Berenson’s (Mandy Patinkin) newest opponent.
Here is the network’s description of the season: Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul, now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Beau Bridges). The top priority of Warner’s young administration is an end to the “forever war” in Afghanistan, and Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations. But Kabul teems with warlords and mercenaries, zealots and spies – and Saul needs the relationships and expertise that only his protégé can provide.
Dancy, who is married to the show’s star Claire Danes, will appear in a multi-episode arc as John Zabel, the president’s new foreign-policy advisor and Saul Berenson’s (Mandy Patinkin) newest opponent.
Here is the network’s description of the season: Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul, now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Beau Bridges). The top priority of Warner’s young administration is an end to the “forever war” in Afghanistan, and Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations. But Kabul teems with warlords and mercenaries, zealots and spies – and Saul needs the relationships and expertise that only his protégé can provide.
- 3/26/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Hugh Dancy (Hannibal) is set for a multi-episode arc opposite Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin on the eighth and final season of Showtime’s Homeland.
Dancy will recur as John Zabel, a savvy Washington consultant who joins the White House as a foreign-policy adviser to the president and a formidable opponent to Saul Berenson (Patinkin).
The final season finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul, who now is National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges). The top priority of Warner’s young administration is an end to the “forever war” in Afghanistan, and Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations. But Kabul teems with warlords and mercenaries, zealots and spies, and Saul needs the relationships and expertise that only his protégé can provide.
Dancy will recur as John Zabel, a savvy Washington consultant who joins the White House as a foreign-policy adviser to the president and a formidable opponent to Saul Berenson (Patinkin).
The final season finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul, who now is National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges). The top priority of Warner’s young administration is an end to the “forever war” in Afghanistan, and Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations. But Kabul teems with warlords and mercenaries, zealots and spies, and Saul needs the relationships and expertise that only his protégé can provide.
- 3/26/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Emmy-nominated “Hannibal” actor Hugh Dancy will star opposite his wife Claire Danes in “Homeland” season eight, Variety has learned.
Dancy will appear in the recurring guest role of John Zabel, a savvy Washington consultant who joins the White House as a new foreign-policy advisor to the President and a formidable opponent to Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin). The show is currently in production on its eighth and final season which will premiere later this year.
The final season will find Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured. Meanwhile, Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations, and against medical advice, he asks Carrie to walk with him into the lion’s den – one last time.
Dancy, who recently starred opposite Aaron Paul in Hulu’s “The Path,” is returning to Showtime after he...
Dancy will appear in the recurring guest role of John Zabel, a savvy Washington consultant who joins the White House as a new foreign-policy advisor to the President and a formidable opponent to Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin). The show is currently in production on its eighth and final season which will premiere later this year.
The final season will find Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured. Meanwhile, Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations, and against medical advice, he asks Carrie to walk with him into the lion’s den – one last time.
Dancy, who recently starred opposite Aaron Paul in Hulu’s “The Path,” is returning to Showtime after he...
- 3/26/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
As has long been expected, Showtime will wrap up “Homeland” with one final, eighth season. The news has been expected for a while, but Showtime Networks CEO David Nevins confirmed the news on Monday at the TV Critics Association press tour. He joked with critics that he better not see anyone characterize this as a “cancellation.”
The news also comes as executive producer Alex Gansa was said to be “unequivocally done” after this season, as star Clare Danes told IndieWire earlier this summer.
Nevins said Gansa and Danes had talked for a while about ending the show after Season 8, when the show’s most recent three-year renewal was set to end. He asked them to sleep on it, and “when they were resolved, it seemed like it was the right time.”
Added Showtime programming head Gary Levine: “That show is not limping in the sunset. Last season was one of the best ever.
The news also comes as executive producer Alex Gansa was said to be “unequivocally done” after this season, as star Clare Danes told IndieWire earlier this summer.
Nevins said Gansa and Danes had talked for a while about ending the show after Season 8, when the show’s most recent three-year renewal was set to end. He asked them to sleep on it, and “when they were resolved, it seemed like it was the right time.”
Added Showtime programming head Gary Levine: “That show is not limping in the sunset. Last season was one of the best ever.
- 8/6/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
“Homeland” is officially ending after eight seasons.
Showtime president and CEO David Nevins made the announcement at the TCA summer press tour on Monday, noting that “Alex [Gansa] and Claire [Danes] both started talking about it last season.” Showtime programming president Gary Levine also noted that the show “is not limping into the sunset. Last season was one of its best ever.” Season 8 will premiere in June 2019. Showtime had previously renewed the show for Seasons 7 and 8 back in 2016.
The news was not unexpected, as series star Claire Danes previously told Howard Stern that the eighth season would be the last.
“Now we’ve got one more season after this and then we’re wrapping it up,” Stern told Danes in the interview, to which Danes responded, “Yeah.” When Stern asked, “How do we feel about this?” Danes replied, “Really conflicted.” She added, “I’ll be ready for a reprieve from that,” noting that her character,...
Showtime president and CEO David Nevins made the announcement at the TCA summer press tour on Monday, noting that “Alex [Gansa] and Claire [Danes] both started talking about it last season.” Showtime programming president Gary Levine also noted that the show “is not limping into the sunset. Last season was one of its best ever.” Season 8 will premiere in June 2019. Showtime had previously renewed the show for Seasons 7 and 8 back in 2016.
The news was not unexpected, as series star Claire Danes previously told Howard Stern that the eighth season would be the last.
“Now we’ve got one more season after this and then we’re wrapping it up,” Stern told Danes in the interview, to which Danes responded, “Yeah.” When Stern asked, “How do we feel about this?” Danes replied, “Really conflicted.” She added, “I’ll be ready for a reprieve from that,” noting that her character,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Lille, France — Italy’s Palomar and Spain’s Mediapro have joined forces on the WWII-era drama “Cclxx,” and will launch their project, as part of Series Mania’s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions. The two companies will hold their joint presentation on Wednesday May 2 in front of TV professionals from around the world, looking to secure broadcasters and financiers.
The series is based on real-life events which took place in Sept. 1943, when Hitler’s German troops stormed Rome and claimed the city for the Third Reich. One of the first directives of the Germans at the time was the exportation of the city’s Jewish population. This forced the Roman people into a terrible position: Should they do as they are told and hope that help is on the way, or do they fight back?
The series will tell the stories of the people of Rome who risked their lives, their families...
The series is based on real-life events which took place in Sept. 1943, when Hitler’s German troops stormed Rome and claimed the city for the Third Reich. One of the first directives of the Germans at the time was the exportation of the city’s Jewish population. This forced the Roman people into a terrible position: Should they do as they are told and hope that help is on the way, or do they fight back?
The series will tell the stories of the people of Rome who risked their lives, their families...
- 5/2/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
“Homeland” will end with its upcoming eighth season, according to its star Claire Danes.
Appearing on “The Howard Stern Show” Wednesday, Danes indicated that the Showtime drama’s next season would be its last.
“Now we’ve got one more season after this and then we’re wrapping it up,” Stern told Danes in the interview, to which Danes responded, “Yeah.” When Stern asked, “How do we feel about this?” Danes replied, “Really conflicted.” She added, “I’ll be ready for a reprieve from that,” noting that her character, Carrie Mathison, is “a lot.”
Post-production on season seven of “Homeland” ended last week. The season finale is set to air April 29 on Showtime.
“Homeland” was given a two-season renewal by Showtime in 2016 ahead of the season-six premiere. It has been widely expected that the series would come to a conclusion following season eight.
“Homeland” was developed for American television by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon,...
Appearing on “The Howard Stern Show” Wednesday, Danes indicated that the Showtime drama’s next season would be its last.
“Now we’ve got one more season after this and then we’re wrapping it up,” Stern told Danes in the interview, to which Danes responded, “Yeah.” When Stern asked, “How do we feel about this?” Danes replied, “Really conflicted.” She added, “I’ll be ready for a reprieve from that,” noting that her character, Carrie Mathison, is “a lot.”
Post-production on season seven of “Homeland” ended last week. The season finale is set to air April 29 on Showtime.
“Homeland” was given a two-season renewal by Showtime in 2016 ahead of the season-six premiere. It has been widely expected that the series would come to a conclusion following season eight.
“Homeland” was developed for American television by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon,...
- 4/18/2018
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish drama production has evolved quickly in the past few years, while the proliferation of Svod platforms is revolutionizing the sector. Ott distribution has helped push some Spanish series onto not only continental screens, but also global TVs.
Take, for example, Alex Pina’s “La Casa de Papel,” produced by Vancouver Media for Atresmedia, and acquired worldwide by Netflix. Its Dalí-inspired aesthetic has been celebrated at Brazil’s Carnival and Saudi soccer matches.
Netflix has now commissioned Spanish drama series (such as Bambú’s “The Cable Girls”) and made early investments in others (such as Rtve’s “The Department of Time,” Atresmedia’s “The Cathedral of the Sea”).
Spanish fiction has “always been a quality product,” says Mediapro head of content Javier Méndez. Now, “the world is discovering Spanish fiction through its presence on new global platforms.”
Beyond Spain, the main target is Latin America.
In February, Movistar Plus — Telefonica...
Take, for example, Alex Pina’s “La Casa de Papel,” produced by Vancouver Media for Atresmedia, and acquired worldwide by Netflix. Its Dalí-inspired aesthetic has been celebrated at Brazil’s Carnival and Saudi soccer matches.
Netflix has now commissioned Spanish drama series (such as Bambú’s “The Cable Girls”) and made early investments in others (such as Rtve’s “The Department of Time,” Atresmedia’s “The Cathedral of the Sea”).
Spanish fiction has “always been a quality product,” says Mediapro head of content Javier Méndez. Now, “the world is discovering Spanish fiction through its presence on new global platforms.”
Beyond Spain, the main target is Latin America.
In February, Movistar Plus — Telefonica...
- 4/7/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Rtve’s talent contest “Operación Triunfo,” a long-term local entertainment format, sprang back to life last year — 16 years after its debut — thanks in part to its reinvention as a transmedia program.
“Ot,” Created and produced by Endemol Shine Iberia’s Gestmusic, returned to Spanish TV after six years in 2017.
Airing October through February, it averaged a strong 19% share and 2.4 million viewers for Rtve’s La1 weekly in primetime, compared to the channel’s 11% February share.
The final gala (31%; 4 million viewers) was won by Pamplona-born Amaia, singing M-Clan’s “Miedo” and David Bowie’s “Starman.”
“Ot’s” standout performance allowed Tve to rejuvenate its audience and strengthen its brand as an innovative operator.
Some “Ot” transmedia milestones include 30 million visits to its app for voting; 85 million visualizations on its 24-hour online channel; 375 million for official content on YouTube; and the show’s constant presence as a trending topic. In February, of...
“Ot,” Created and produced by Endemol Shine Iberia’s Gestmusic, returned to Spanish TV after six years in 2017.
Airing October through February, it averaged a strong 19% share and 2.4 million viewers for Rtve’s La1 weekly in primetime, compared to the channel’s 11% February share.
The final gala (31%; 4 million viewers) was won by Pamplona-born Amaia, singing M-Clan’s “Miedo” and David Bowie’s “Starman.”
“Ot’s” standout performance allowed Tve to rejuvenate its audience and strengthen its brand as an innovative operator.
Some “Ot” transmedia milestones include 30 million visits to its app for voting; 85 million visualizations on its 24-hour online channel; 375 million for official content on YouTube; and the show’s constant presence as a trending topic. In February, of...
- 4/7/2018
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Assaf Blecher has been appointed as VP Development and Content at Israel’s Keshet Broadcasting. The former Managing Director of Keshet Dcp, will move from L.A. to take up the post at the company’s Tel Aviv headquarters in February. He will report to Keshet Media Group CEO, Avi Nir. This follows on the departure of senior VP of content at Keshet Media Group Ran Telem. The exec had overseen content creation and development in the comedy and drama space with a focus towards…...
- 1/28/2016
- Deadline TV
Israeli TV powerhouse Keshet Broadcasting on Monday unveiled an expansion of the content division at its Tel Aviv headquarters, adding a new executive and promoting another. The company, which in recent years has emerged as the country’s most prominent TV exporter and made its brand well known globally, elevated vp of programming Ran Telem to the new role of vp of content. He will oversee content creation and development, focusing on new comedy and drama programming with international appeal, and also work with fellow Israeli production companies in an effort to strengthen creation and growth. Read more Keshet Celebrity
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- 9/29/2014
- by David Caspi
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here are the first look at TBS‘ new comedies and dramas as part of the 2014-2015 series orders. The network has made full trailers available now that Turner’s upfront presentation is getting underway in NY. Check them out: Angie Tribeca – Comedy Produced by Warner Horizon, Conaco and Carousel TV. From executive producer/writer/director Steve Carell and executive producers Nancy Carell, Campbell Smith and Thom Hinkle. Buzzy’s – Comedy Produced by Warner Horizon and KoMut Entertainment. From executive producers David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. Your Family Or Mine – Comedy Produced by Sony Pictures TV Fanfare Productions, Keshet International and Teddy Productions. From executive producers Greg Malins, Jamie Tarses, Rubi Duanias, Yaniv Polishuk, Avi Nir, Ran Telem and Tamira Yardeni.
- 5/14/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
TBS has given a pilot order to Your Family Or Mine, a multi-camera comedy from veteran comedy showrunner Greg Malins, Sony Pictures TV and Jamie Tarses’ studio-based Fanfare. The project, originally set up at ABC during the 2012-13 development season as a single-cam, is based on hit Israeli comedy series Your Family Or Mine? from leading Israeli broadcaster Keshet. Written by Friends and How I Met Your Mother alum Malins, the adaptation centers on Oliver and Kelli who are living proof of the adage “When you marry someone, you don’t just marry them, you marry their whole family.” It is a family comedy with an unusual structure — each episode focuses on a different side of the family: one week featuring the couple dealing with Kelli’s family, the next spent with Oliver’s. Your Family Or Mine?, created by Rubi Duanias, Yaniv Polishuk and produced by Teddy Prods., aired...
- 2/10/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Leading Israeli broadcast network Keshet kicked off its second annual InTV (Innovation in Television) conference Monday morning in Jerusalem, with much buzzed about TV singing competition Rising Star the talk of the event's opening day. The innovative format is set to be Keshet's biggest ever commercial COO globally. The "application based television" concept, as Keshet's vice president of programming Ran Telem refers to it, is a fresh take on a singing competition reality show, which gained momentum following its successful local launch in September and soon after went on to garner even greater international appeal during the last Mipcom, prompting
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- 11/4/2013
- by David Caspi
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In pilot news, we have a couple of unsurprising castings in a couple of new productions this year. Every year you can expect to see actors and actresses fleeing their failing shows and trying out pilots that will hopefully work better and for a longer period of time. This year is no different, though we are seeing a case of someone taking on a pilot who, for all intents and purposes, probably doesn’t need the work. In this case, I’m referring to Seth Green, who has joined Seth MacFarlane’s first live-action sitcom for Fox. And more predictably, Debra Messing is jumping the sinking ship that is NBC’s Smash.
Let’s start with Green, as his is the more interesting of stories. Deadline reported him to be joining co-star Tommy Dewey for MacFarlane’s multi-camera sitcom, Dads. In it, he will play Eli, who, along with roommate...
Let’s start with Green, as his is the more interesting of stories. Deadline reported him to be joining co-star Tommy Dewey for MacFarlane’s multi-camera sitcom, Dads. In it, he will play Eli, who, along with roommate...
- 3/26/2013
- by Brody Gibson
- Boomtron
Smash star Debra Messing is returning to half-hour comedy with a starring role in CBS‘ untitled Julie Rottenberg/Elisa Zuritsky pilot (formerly Mother’s Day). In addition to playing the lead, Will & Grace alumna Messing will serve as a co-executive producer on the project, based on an Israeli format, in one of the richest talent deals this pilot season. The untitled comedy centers on 40-year-old Ella (Messing) who, in order to successfully navigate through the demanding life of being a mother of three, a lover, a friend and a career woman, constantly lies her way out of and into situations — little lies, big lies, white and at times not-so-white lies. The project reunites Emmy winner Messing with Rottenberg and Zuritsky who served as co-executive producers on Smash. Messing’s casting is formally in second position to the NBC Broadway drama, which is not expected to return after a very low...
- 3/25/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
On January 19th, the Israeli TV series Prisoners of War premiered on Sbs One..For those who haven't heard it it, Pow.is the drama that the award-winning American series Homeland is based upon. Written by the Israeli director Gideon Raff, Prisoners of War tells the home-returning journey of three Israeli soldiers. After 17 years in captivity, they returned to their homeland, two of them alive and one in a coffin. The original script Hatufim, the Hebrew name for Pow, was sold to Twentieth Century Fox in 2009 and adapted into Homeland by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, producers of Fox hit 24. With 1.08 million viewers, Homeland broke the viewership marks for the American TV channel Showtime. As the executive producer of the show, Ran Telem shared in Homeland.s victory at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards 2012. He is also the executive producer of Prisoners of War and VP Programming for Keshet Broadcasting,...
- 1/29/2013
- by Yuan Liu
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Top Israeli broadcaster Keshet, on whose format Showtime’s Emmy-winning drama Homeland is based, has added to a strong broadcast selling season with Mother’s Day, a comedy project at CBS based on an Israeli series. Smash co-executive producers Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky will write the adaptation. It centers on 40-year-old Ella who, in order to successfully navigate through the demanding life of being a mother of three, a lover, a friend and a career woman, constantly lies her way out of and into situations — little lies, big lies, white and at times not-so-white lies. The original series, which premiered on Keshet’s Channel 2 in August, was created by Daniela London-Dekel and Dana Eden, written by London-Dekel and produced by Eden’s Eden Prods. (Watch the English-language trailer below.) Rottenberg and Zuritsky executive produce the CBS version with London-Dekel, Eden and Keshet’s CEO Avi Nir and head of programming Ran Telem.
- 11/9/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
In a competitive situation, ABC has landed Tribes, a single-camera comedy from veteran comedy showrunner Greg Malins, Sony Pictures TV and Jamie Tarses’ studio-based Fanfare. Tribes, which has received a script commitment plus penalty, is based on hit Israeli comedy series Your Family Or Mine? from Keshet, the leading Israeli media company whose Prisoners Of War format was adapted into Showtime’s Emmy-winning drama Homeland. Written by Friends and How I Met Your Mother alum Malins, Tribes centers on Oliver and Kelli who are living proof of the adage “When you marry someone, you don’t just marry them, you marry their whole family.” It is a family comedy with an unusual structure — each episode focuses on a different side of the family: one week featuring the couple dealing with Kelli’s family, the next spent with Oliver’s. Your Family Or Mine?, created by Rubi Duanias, Yaniv Polishuk and produced by Teddy Prods.
- 10/31/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Summary Wme – 30 Winners CAA – 29 Winners UTA – 15 Winners ICM - 10 Winners Apa – 4 Winners Paradigm – 2 Winners Gersh – 2 Winners Innovative Artists – 1 Winner Names of Winners Wme - 30 Writing For A Drama Series: Homeland Written by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff Lead Actor In A Drama Series Damian Lewis, Homeland Lead Actress In A Drama Series Claire Danes, Homeland Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or A Movie Jessica Lange, American Horror Story Directing For a Miniseries Or A Movie Jay Roach, Game Change Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys Miniseries or Movie: Game Change Jay Roach, Executive Producer Outstanding Drama Series: Homeland Alex Gansa, Executive Producer Howard Gordon, Executive Producer Michael Cuesta, Executive Producer Gideon Raff, Executive Producer Avi Nir, Executive Producer Ran Telem, Executive Producer Alexander Cary, Co-Executive Producer Meredith Stiehm, Consulting Producer Cindy Chupack, Co-Executive Producer Outstanding Children’s Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program: Sesame Street...
- 9/28/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline TV
Summary Wme – 30 Winners CAA – 29 Winners UTA – 15 Winners ICM - 10 Winners Apa – 4 Winners Paradigm – 2 Winners Gersh – 2 Winners Innovative Artists – 1 Winner Names of Winners Wme - 30 Writing For A Drama Series: Homeland Written by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff Lead Actor In A Drama Series Damian Lewis, Homeland Lead Actress In A Drama Series Claire Danes, Homeland Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or A Movie Jessica Lange, American Horror Story Directing For a Miniseries Or A Movie Jay Roach, Game Change Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys Miniseries or Movie: Game Change Jay Roach, Executive Producer Outstanding Drama Series: Homeland Alex Gansa, Executive Producer Howard Gordon, Executive Producer Michael Cuesta, Executive Producer Gideon Raff, Executive Producer Avi Nir, Executive Producer Ran Telem, Executive Producer Alexander Cary, Co-Executive Producer Meredith Stiehm, Consulting Producer Cindy Chupack, Co-Executive Producer Outstanding Children’s Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program: Sesame Street...
- 9/28/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
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