TCA 2015: Additionally, the broadcaster has ordered two new “Masterpiece” dramas and two documentary series on nuclear weapons
PBS has inked a co-production deal with BBC and BBC Worldwide, PBS’s president and CEO Paula A. Kerger announced during Monday’s Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena.
Additionally, the broadcaster has ordered a new Civil War drama series produced by Ridley Scott (“Gladiator”) and two new “Masterpiece” series. Also, PBS will produce two new documentary specials focusing on nuclear weapons.
Under the BBC pact, the companies plan to produce eight to 10 new specials to begin premiering as early as this summer.
PBS has inked a co-production deal with BBC and BBC Worldwide, PBS’s president and CEO Paula A. Kerger announced during Monday’s Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena.
Additionally, the broadcaster has ordered a new Civil War drama series produced by Ridley Scott (“Gladiator”) and two new “Masterpiece” series. Also, PBS will produce two new documentary specials focusing on nuclear weapons.
Under the BBC pact, the companies plan to produce eight to 10 new specials to begin premiering as early as this summer.
- 1/19/2015
- by Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
TV Picks: Grantchester On Masterpiece Mystery!James Norton (Happy Valley) stars as Reverend Chambers, with Robson Green (Wire in the Blood, Reckless) as Inspector Geordie Keating, in this six-part drama based on James Runcie’s acclaimed “Grantchester Mysteries.”Meet Sidney Chambers: clergyman, jazz enthusiast, and talented amateur sleuth. Grantchester premieres Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, 10pm Et on Masterpiece Mystery! on PBS. #GrantchesterPBS Sundays, January 18 – February 22, 2015At a Special Time: 10pm Et on PBSFond of whisky, jazz, and women, Reverend Sidney Chambers gives clergymen a fresh image in Grantchester, a new mystery series airing on Masterpiece in January. In Grantchester, a […]...
- 12/18/2014
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Exclusive: Turkey is being tipped as one of the potential new hot destinations for formats. Now the country, which straddles Europe and Asia, is making a big entrance into the Us marketplace with the first scripted format set up at a network by American producers, Ghost Whisperer alums Ian Sander and Kim Moses. The project, The End, to be directed and executive produced by Peter Horton and written by feature writer Michael Cooney (Identity), is one of two dramas sold by Sander/Moses Prods., along with The Edge, written by another feature scribe, Chap Taylor (Changing Lanes) and produced by Mark Roberts (Strangers With Candy). Sander and Moses are executive producing both projects while also prepping their midseason CBS drama series, Reckless. The End, which is set up at Fox with 20th TV producing, centers on Lauren Marks who believes she is leading a perfect life — she has a loving husband,...
- 10/9/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Stage and screen actor Francesca Annis talks about the cult of celebrity, going nude for Roman Polanski and the pressure of playing a famous beauty
What first drew you to acting?
It happened by chance. I was brought up as a dancer, and was studying Russian ballet at a school, Corona, when an agency asked me to audition for Cleopatra [the 1963 film]. I went along two hours early to tell them I couldn't go since I had to go and buy ballet shoes. The director, Joseph L Mankiewicz, was just going out the door. We had an informal chat, and the next thing I knew I had an acting career.
What was your big breakthrough?
Doing a musical with Jane Birkin in a West End show called Passion Flower Hotel. It put me on the map – not least because Barbra Streisand's recording of the lead song, How Much of the Dream Comes True,...
What first drew you to acting?
It happened by chance. I was brought up as a dancer, and was studying Russian ballet at a school, Corona, when an agency asked me to audition for Cleopatra [the 1963 film]. I went along two hours early to tell them I couldn't go since I had to go and buy ballet shoes. The director, Joseph L Mankiewicz, was just going out the door. We had an informal chat, and the next thing I knew I had an acting career.
What was your big breakthrough?
Doing a musical with Jane Birkin in a West End show called Passion Flower Hotel. It put me on the map – not least because Barbra Streisand's recording of the lead song, How Much of the Dream Comes True,...
- 6/18/2013
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
British screenwriter Paul Abbott, creator of Shameless, will speak at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s National Screenwriters Conference in February 2013. Next year’s conference will carry the theme ‘What Happens Next? The Screenwriters’ Journey.”
The announcement:
The Australian Writers’ Guild (Awg) today announced that one of Britain’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful TV writers will head to our shores for the biennial National Screenwriters Conference at Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, from 20-22 February 2013. Paul Abbott created the multi award-winning semi-autobiographical Shameless, which is now in its tenth series in the UK as well as a second series of the Us remake starring William H Macy.
“As a screenwriter, this is the one event I look forward to more than any other. Hearing the best in the business talk about their craft is always incredibly inspiring, and there are none better than Paul Abbott”, says Australian Writers’ Guild President Jan Sardi.
The announcement:
The Australian Writers’ Guild (Awg) today announced that one of Britain’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful TV writers will head to our shores for the biennial National Screenwriters Conference at Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, from 20-22 February 2013. Paul Abbott created the multi award-winning semi-autobiographical Shameless, which is now in its tenth series in the UK as well as a second series of the Us remake starring William H Macy.
“As a screenwriter, this is the one event I look forward to more than any other. Hearing the best in the business talk about their craft is always incredibly inspiring, and there are none better than Paul Abbott”, says Australian Writers’ Guild President Jan Sardi.
- 9/27/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Showtime (Weeds, Dexter) has officially picked up Paul Abbott's Shameless for series. Set to begin shooting end of summer 2010, Shameless is Abbott's (State of Play, Touching Evil, Reckless, and Clocking Off) most personal work, inspired by his own complicated life growing up in a working-class family with ten children. Showtime has ordered 12 episodes of the hour-long drama tracing the lives of a very unconventional family which will be executive produced by John Wells (ER, The West Wing, Southland) and the series’ original creator and Emmy Award-winner Paul Abbott. The series also stars Justin Chatwin, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney, Cameron Monaghan, Jeremy White and Laura Slade Wiggins Mark Mylod directed the pilot episode. “We’re so happy to be bringing this richly textured drama about a dysfunctional blue-collar family to Showtime with two of the greatest television producers working today, John Wells and Paul Abbott,” ...
- 4/8/2010
- by Buzzfocus Staff
- BuzzFocus.com
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