Europe’s pubcasters have joined forces to combat such streaming giants as Netflix and Amazon in the international TV market — and the first projects from this collaboration are under way.
Continental Europe’s leading public broadcasters — Italy’s Rai, France Televisions and Germany’s Zdf — in March forged a scripted content co-production pact called the Alliance with the stated goal of co-financing innovative, higher-profile, and generally bigger TV series for viewers in Europe and the rest of the world.
Meant to give participants greater firepower against the Netflixes of this world, the Alliance has spawned several projects, including a high-end “Leonardo” skein, with Frank Spotnitz on board and Rai in the leading role. It is the first of the projects expected to hit screens, in 2019.
“There are so many available platforms these days that local audiences are getting used to seeing the best of what’s out there day-and-date with the rest of the world,...
Continental Europe’s leading public broadcasters — Italy’s Rai, France Televisions and Germany’s Zdf — in March forged a scripted content co-production pact called the Alliance with the stated goal of co-financing innovative, higher-profile, and generally bigger TV series for viewers in Europe and the rest of the world.
Meant to give participants greater firepower against the Netflixes of this world, the Alliance has spawned several projects, including a high-end “Leonardo” skein, with Frank Spotnitz on board and Rai in the leading role. It is the first of the projects expected to hit screens, in 2019.
“There are so many available platforms these days that local audiences are getting used to seeing the best of what’s out there day-and-date with the rest of the world,...
- 10/16/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
U.S. showrunner Frank Spotnitz (“The Man in the High Castle”) and British writer Steve Thompson (“Sherlock”) have been recruited by Italy’s Rai and Lux Vide to develop “Leonardo,” an English-language TV series that will portray the Renaissance genius as a gay outsider.
“He was a real outsider for those times. He was an illegitimate child, gay, vegetarian and left-handed,” said Rai Head of Drama Eleonora Andreatta, echoing a description found in “Leonardo da Vinci,” a new biography of the Italian polymath by U.S. author Walter Isaacson.
The new eight-part show, which Spotnitz’s Big Light Productions is co-producing with Lux Vide, is expected to be the first project to hit the airwaves from The Alliance, the co-production group formed by continental Europe’s top pubcasters: Rai, France Televisions, and Germany’s Zdf. The broadcasters announced in May that they were joining forces to counter the growing force of...
“He was a real outsider for those times. He was an illegitimate child, gay, vegetarian and left-handed,” said Rai Head of Drama Eleonora Andreatta, echoing a description found in “Leonardo da Vinci,” a new biography of the Italian polymath by U.S. author Walter Isaacson.
The new eight-part show, which Spotnitz’s Big Light Productions is co-producing with Lux Vide, is expected to be the first project to hit the airwaves from The Alliance, the co-production group formed by continental Europe’s top pubcasters: Rai, France Televisions, and Germany’s Zdf. The broadcasters announced in May that they were joining forces to counter the growing force of...
- 10/3/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The mighty Paddy Considine has signed up for a role in Peaky Blinders series 3, which starts shooting today…
He’s currently on the big screen in the utterly disparate films Macbeth and Miss You Already, and now Paddy Considine has added another project to his slate – he’ll appear in Peaky Blinders series 3, which begins shooting today.
Mr Considine will play “the representative of a force beyond anything Shelby has previously encountered.” Dina Korzun (Last Resort) and Jan Bijvoet (Cordon) have also joined the show, as refugees from a foreign conflict who enlist the help of Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby.
The new series will kick off with Tommy’s wedding day, before plunging its protagonist back into “the glamorous and dangerous world of international intrigue in 1920s Britain, putting his entire organisation and family at risk, and forcing him to question everything about his own ambitions and desires.”
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He’s currently on the big screen in the utterly disparate films Macbeth and Miss You Already, and now Paddy Considine has added another project to his slate – he’ll appear in Peaky Blinders series 3, which begins shooting today.
Mr Considine will play “the representative of a force beyond anything Shelby has previously encountered.” Dina Korzun (Last Resort) and Jan Bijvoet (Cordon) have also joined the show, as refugees from a foreign conflict who enlist the help of Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby.
The new series will kick off with Tommy’s wedding day, before plunging its protagonist back into “the glamorous and dangerous world of international intrigue in 1920s Britain, putting his entire organisation and family at risk, and forcing him to question everything about his own ambitions and desires.”
Returning...
- 10/5/2015
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
Discovering: New Order: Sky Arts, 6.30pm
Documentary following the rise of British rock band New Order after the collapse of Joy Division.
After the suicide of Joy Division's frontman Ian Curtis, the remaining members emerged as New Order. This brought about the release of 'Blue Mondays', which saw the new band placed firmly in the British rock scene.
Cordon: BBC Four, 9pm
Tonight we are treated to a double bill of the Flemish drama series.
Lex (Tom Dewispelaere) is called out to a security breach in the quarantine and ends up being quarantined himself. Meanwhile, Dr Cannaerts (Johan van Assche) smuggles an untested vaccine into Niida.
Transporter: The Series: Channel 5, 9pm
Frank Martin's latest job is far from straightforward when he comes across an old colleague.
Frank (Chris Vance) is hired to transport some illegal substances by Russian gangster Sergei Zarov, however Frank must keep...
Documentary following the rise of British rock band New Order after the collapse of Joy Division.
After the suicide of Joy Division's frontman Ian Curtis, the remaining members emerged as New Order. This brought about the release of 'Blue Mondays', which saw the new band placed firmly in the British rock scene.
Cordon: BBC Four, 9pm
Tonight we are treated to a double bill of the Flemish drama series.
Lex (Tom Dewispelaere) is called out to a security breach in the quarantine and ends up being quarantined himself. Meanwhile, Dr Cannaerts (Johan van Assche) smuggles an untested vaccine into Niida.
Transporter: The Series: Channel 5, 9pm
Frank Martin's latest job is far from straightforward when he comes across an old colleague.
Frank (Chris Vance) is hired to transport some illegal substances by Russian gangster Sergei Zarov, however Frank must keep...
- 7/18/2015
- Digital Spy
The CW joined the series pickup fray Thursday, handing out expected orders to Julie Plec's Cordon adaption and its Arrow/Flash spinoff, now titled DC's Legends of Tomorrow. The younger-skewing network also delivered a curveball, picking up half-hour comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend — now an hourlong series — from its corporate sibling Showtime. Cordon, based on the Belgian series created by Carl Joos, hails from Plec and gives the prolific showrunner three series on the network (with The Vampire Diaries and spinoff The Originals) for the second time in her career. The series examines what happens when a deadly epidemic breaks out
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- 5/7/2015
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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