Sweden’s SVT Orders ‘Whiskey On The Rocks’ From Skyverse Nordic
Sweden’s public service broadcaster SVT has boarded Skyverse Nordic comedy-drama Whiskey On The Rocks as its principal commissioning broadcaster. The six-part sequence continues to be at script and manufacturing growth stage and is being billed as a “premium, epic Chilly Warfare dramedy particular occasion” directed by Björn Stein (Midnight Solar) and based mostly on an authentic story from writer Jonas Jonasson. It’s among the many first exhibits from Skyverse Nordic, which is a subsidiary of Glowing, the Stockholm-based sister firm to Humanoids that Deadline revealed again in Might. The present reunites Jonasson with Skyverse boss Patrick Nebout and artistic producer Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, who have been collectively behind Sweden’s largest export success, the Oscar-nominated The Hundred-Yr-Previous Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. A Scandinavian and worldwide solid are being sought to play the drama’s protagonists onboard the submarine and in Moscow. The story is impressed by a infamous incident that very almost escalated right into a full-blown conflict between Sweden and the united states in 1981, when a Soviet U-137 ‘Whiskey’-class submarine ran aground on rocks deep inside Swedish territorial waters — proper in the course of a delicate Swedish naval train.
Netflix, EPC Announce Winners Of First Pitch Contest For Ladies Producers
Irish producer Anna Mannion of Tri Moon Movies has received the inaugural version of Netflix and the European Producers Membership’s pitch contest for fictional sequence pushed by ladies producers. Below the initiative, launched final March throughout Sequence Mania, a choice of initiatives by ladies producers affiliated to the European Movie Membership (EPC) was introduced to Netflix’s content material workforce in Amsterdam.Mannion picks up a €50,000 ($49,800) growth award, whereas Romanian producer Ada Solomon at Microfilm received the second place €20,000 ($19,900) prize.Runners up have been Mariela Besuievsky at Tornasol Media (Spain), Martichka Bozhilova at Agitprop (Bulgaria), Gabriele M. Walther at Caligari (Germany) and Olena Yershova, Tato Movie (Ukraine, Turkey). They have been every awarded €5,000 ($5,000) to assist with growth. Deadline revealed information of the competitors again in March.
Keshet Worldwide Hires Blue Ant’s Fleur Wheatley
Keshet Worldwide (KI) has has named Fleur Wheatley as its London-based VP of Gross sales. She’ll be accountable for main KI’s gross sales actions within the U.S., Canada, the UK, the Nordics, and with international and regional SVoDs and channels. Wheatley joins after a four-year tenure at Blue Ant Worldwide, the place she most just lately held the place of Director, Worldwide Gross sales and Acquisitions for the Nordics, Benelux, MENA, Greece and Turkey. She takes up her function at present and experiences on to KI’s COO and President of Distribution, Keren Shahar, who mentioned Wheatley would comprise a part of the corporate’s “largest delegation post-Covid.” Wheatley, who has beforehand labored for DRG and Fremantle, will deal with gross sales of codecs, scripted and unscripted completed tape and pre-buy/co-production alternatives at KI, which is a subsidiary of Israeli broadcaster Keshet.
Welsh Producers Win Native ‘Gogglebox’ Remake Tender
Welsh indies Chwarel and Cwmni Da will produce Gogglebocs Cymru, the native language remake of TV watcher format Gogglebox. This marks the primary time authentic producer Studio Lambert and UK broadcaster Channel have licensed the franchise to a different Britain-based channel and producer. Gogglebox movies households and mates as they watch and react to the week’s most talked-about TV. The Welsh model is predicted to comprise 70% bilingual Wales-based programming — from the likes S4C, ITV Wales and BBC Wales — and the remaining 30% coming from UK Community broadcasters and SVoDs. Casting is now underway, with the primary episode set to broadcast within the first week of November. Sioned Wyn, Managing Director of Chwarel, mentioned: “We’ve been ready a very long time for one thing like this. The ambition is to make it not solely the top-rated present on S4C, however the entire of Wales – and past.”
Pink Arrow Studios Worldwide Takes ‘Child Sister’ To Cannes
Pink Arrow Studios Worldwide has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to a pair of latest drama titles: coming-of-age Kiwi comedy sequence Child Sister from Greenstone TV and Summer season Love, an eight-part anthology sequence from Australian producer Gristmill. The titles will headline the corporate’s Mipcom scripted slate, which may even function the upcoming third season of crime drama Vienna Blood. Child Sister comes from Simone Nathan (Our Flag Means Loss of life), who additionally stars as lead character Lulu within the sequence, which launched on TVNZ On Demand in New Zealand earlier this yr. It follows her as a Kiwi girl in her prime aged almost 30 however who within the Jewish world is careening in the direction of spinsterhood. Summer season Love, for Australian pubcaster the ABC, follows eight very completely different units of individuals hire the identical beachside vacation home, the place they expertise some incarnation of affection.
