MUNICH – Marking another win for Babylon Berlin, the biggest Asian TV festival in Shanghai has honoured the Roaring Twenties drama as Best Foreign Series with the renowned Magnolia Award. The 16-hour show beat highly prestigious US series such as David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and David Shore's medical drama The Good Doctor. The Shanghai TV Festival jury stated: “Babylon Berlin wins for its high production values, brilliant script, engaging characters, and thrilling story. It showed us a … [Read more...] about “Babylon Berlin” wins top prize at Shanghai TV Festival
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Beta Film presents two Canneseries-premieres at the Côte d’Azur
MUNICH – In one of its most powerful slates ever, Beta Film heads to MIPTV with the Canneseries-competition premieres, Cacciatore – The Hunter and The Typist, as well as the German MIPDrama Buyers Summit-entry Pagan Peak. Cacciatore – The Hunter (Cross/Beta for RAI), for which the second season of twelve new episodes is already in preparation, tells the true story about the “hunting season” of Palermo’s Mafia in the 1990s. One of Italy’s most famous mafia hunters, Alfonso Sabella, whose … [Read more...] about Beta Film presents two Canneseries-premieres at the Côte d’Azur
“Fariña – Snow on the Atlantic” ongoing rating success in Spain
MUNICH – Beta Film’s Galician drug trafficking series Fariña – Snow on the Atlantic is celebrating an ongoing ratings success on Spain’s Antena 3, continuously beating prestigious formats such as Telecino’s “Got Talent”. Prime-time winning episodes 1 – 4 were watched by 3.1 million viewers in average with an outstanding market share of 19.5 percent. The Atresmedia Original series by production powerhouse Bambú Producciones (Grand Hotel, Velvet) is based on real events and characters from Nacho … [Read more...] about “Fariña – Snow on the Atlantic” ongoing rating success in Spain
Beta Film and ZDF works together to launch INTAGLIO FILMS GmbH
BERLIN – Beta Film and ZDF Enterprises team up to launch INTAGLIO FILMS GmbH, a new scripted venture which will develop, finance and produce drama for the international market. INTAGLIO FILMS will be headquartered in Berlin and led by multi Emmy Award winning Producer Frank Doelger (Executive Producer on HBO’s Game of Thrones, John Adams, and Rome). Doelger will spearhead the company’s development and production slate, acting as bureau chief and leveraging his expertise and … [Read more...] about Beta Film and ZDF works together to launch INTAGLIO FILMS GmbH
Beta Film presents Pagan Peak
Munich - Step into a world of dark valleys and archaic customs: Beta Film boards the new Sky Germany series Pagan Peak. The eight-hour high-concept thriller series is an original production by Sky, which celebrated record ratings with the gritty crime series Babylon Berlin. Academy Award-winning producer duo Wiedemann & Berg (Netflix’ “Dark”) just started shooting Pagan Peak in the icy Alps with Julia Jentsch (Academy Award nominee, “Sophie Scholl – The Final Days”) and Nicholas Ofczarek … [Read more...] about Beta Film presents Pagan Peak
Producer Friedemann Goez joins Beta Film
Munich - Beta Film has appointed producer Friedemann Goez as new executive for German, European and international developments and co-productions to strengthen its TV production department. Goez previously worked for Academy Award-winner Volker Engel at his US-based company Uncharted Territory before he joined Nico Hofmann’s UFA Fiction in 2014. Among his recent projects, he served as producer on the acclaimed UFA/Beta Cold War-series The Same Sky by Paula Milne and Oliver … [Read more...] about Producer Friedemann Goez joins Beta Film