Los Angeles, CA – Critical Content has optioned the television rights to produce and adapt a scripted limited series based on Ursula K. Le Guin’s award winning novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Tom Forman, Andrew Marcus and Ray Ricord will executive produce with Le Guin serving as a consulting producer. A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary’s mission to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants have a complex and … [Read more...] about Critical Content adapts and produces Left hand of Darkness
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$8.8 million for seven dramas and four features
Australia -Screen Australia announced its support of seven television dramas and four feature film projects. In total, $8.8 million in funding will be allocated to a range of screen stories, which in turn will trigger production to the value of $63.5 million. The slate includes brand new dramas for SBS and Network Ten and a new film from brothers Clayton and Shane Jacobson, who will reunite to co-star in a follow-up to their 2006 comedy hit Kenny. Rising talents Ellie Beaumont and Drew … [Read more...] about $8.8 million for seven dramas and four features
Discovery launches first Hindi general entertainment channel
Mumbai - Discovery Communications announces its plan to roll out Discovery JEET, a new entertainment channel across India, starting in late 2017. The new channel will be the flagship for the network’s ambitious investment into original local productions in India, super serving super fans and nurturing communities around a range of programme genres including true crime investigations, small-town heroes and gritty survival. Discovery is scaling up investment in over 200 hours of local content … [Read more...] about Discovery launches first Hindi general entertainment channel
GMA Network wins three Gold medals
GMA Network recorded an unprecedented feat in Philippine broadcast history, winning no less than three Gold Medals in just one festival year alongside three finalist certificates at the 2017 New York Festivals World’s Best TV and Films Competition held in Las Vegas, U.S.A. last April. Bringing honor to the country anew were multi-awarded GMA Public Affairs programs Reporter’s Notebook, Front Row, and Reel Time. GMA-7’s investigative program Reporter’s Notebook bested other nominees in the … [Read more...] about GMA Network wins three Gold medals
Dynamic Spectrum Alliance welcomes ViaSat
Cape Town, South Africa - The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) announced that ViaSat, a leading global broadband services and technology company, has become its newest member and the first broadband satellite service provider to join the Alliance. “ViaSat joining the DSA is a significant moment in the history of the Alliance,” said Kalpak Gude, president of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance. “It highlights that, as an Alliance, we take a broad approach to the efficient and effective management of … [Read more...] about Dynamic Spectrum Alliance welcomes ViaSat
Twin Peaks, the wait is over
Lisbon and Amsterdam - On April 8, 1990, David Lynch showed the world for the first time the genius piece of art that was Twin Peaks. TV was never the same and the world created by Lynch and Mark Frost, with the sublime music by Angelo Badalamenti, still cast s a spell on many and has a following of millions of fans around the world. Now it is happening again, with the long-awaited SHOWTIME limited event series, Twin Peaks, premiering exclusively in Portugal on TVSéries, May … [Read more...] about Twin Peaks, the wait is over