TV LINE-UP MIPTV 2019 - STUDIOCANAL TV SERIES
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
AT MIPTV 2019 THE TV LINE-UP is published by the International Marketing Department of STUDIOCANAL / STUDIOCANAL TV GmbH, Sonnenstr. 14, 80331 Munich, Germany / All information in this document is non-contractual
HIGHLIGHTS YEARS AND YEARS 07 SANCTUARY 09 INSTINTO 11 VERNON SUBUTEX 13 ON DEATH ROW 15 SPIRAL (SEASON 7) 17 TRUST ME (SEASON 1 & 2) 19 BELOW THE SURFACE (SEASON 1 & 2) 21 LA PORTA ROSSA (SEASON 1 & 2) 23 MOSCOW NOIR 25 ILLEGALS 27 PROS AND CONS 29 INTERNS 31 INVISIBLES – A CHILDHOOD IN AFRICA 33 ODA UPSIDE DOWN 35
SERIES RIDE UPON THE STORM (SEASON 1 & 2) 36 RAVEN 37 NOX 37 THE LAWYER 38 BARON NOIR (SEASON 1 & 2) 38 SPIRAL (SEASONS 1 –6) 39 PARIS ETC. 40 MIDNIGHT SUN 40 THE TEACH (SEASON 1 & 2) 41 CRAZYHEAD 41 PARANOID 42 HARLAN COBEN’S THE FIVE 42 SECTION ZERO 43 THE LAST PANTHERS 43 SPOTLESS 44 CROSSING LINES (SEASONS 1 –3) 44 PLANE TREE (SEASON 1 & 2) 45 NEW STREET LAW 45 THE SECOND COMING 46 BOB & ROSE 46 MINI-SERIES COME HOME 47 ROBERT LITTELL’S THE COMPANY 47 CRIME TIME 48 KATE MOSSE’S LABYRINTH 48 KEN FOLLETT’S THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH 49 KEN FOLLETT’S WORLD WITHOUT END 49 KEN FOLLETT’S JOURNEY INTO THE DARK AGES 49 IMPACT 50 ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE HADES FACTOR 50 RING OF THE NIBELUNGS 51 TV MOVIES THE CHILD IN TIME 52 SANCTUARY 52 LENNY HENRY’S DANNY AND THE HUMAN ZOO 53 THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES 53 TREASURE GUARDS 54 THE LOST FUTURE 54 THE NORA ROBERTS COLLECTION 55 PATRICIA CORNWELL’S AT RISK AND THE FRONT 55 LOST CITY RAIDERS 56 P.I. POST IMPACT 56 ANIMATION ESTHER’S NOTEBOOKS 57 PIRATE’S PASSAGE 57 PRODUCTION COMPANIES & OFFICES 58 | 59
YEARS AND YEARS DRAMA SERIES | 6 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN POST-PRODUCTION ORIGINATING BROADCASTER Years and Years follows the Lyons, a busy BBC One (UK) Manchester family. CO–PRODUCERS BBC One (UK), HBO (USA & Canada), Daniel’s getting married to Ralph. Stephen and CANAL+ (France) SERIES Celeste worry about their kids. Rosie’s chasing CAST a new fella. Edith hasn’t been home for years. Emma Thompson, Jessica Hynes, All presided over by Gran, the imperial Muriel. Rory Kinnear, Ruth Madeley, T’Nia Miller, Anne Reid, Russell Tovey But when their lives all converge on one crucial night in 2019, the story accelerates into the CREATOR & WRITER future, following the lives and loves of the Lyons Russell T Davies over the next 15 years. DIRECTORS Simon Cellan Jones, Lisa Mulcahy And what a world! Everything we fear, and everything we hope for, happening around 2019 EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Nicola Shindler, Russell T Davies, this tight-knit family. Society gets hotter, faster, Michaela Fereday, Simon Cellan Jones madder, with the turmoil of politics, technology | NEW RELEASES PRODUCER and distant wars affecting the Lyons in their Karen Lewis day-to-day lives. Set against this, the Lyons have to navigate their everyday hopes and fears, PRODUCTION COMPANY RED Production Company knowing that one ordinary family could never change the world. credits non-contractual Or could they? 07
SANCTUARY (HIMMELSDALEN) PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SERIES | 8 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN POST-PRODUCTION ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS Hel receives an invitation to visit her estranged TV4/C MORE (Sweden), NC+ (Poland) twin Siri at an exclusive residential sanatorium set against the idyllic setting of the Italian Alps. CAST Tension soon rises when Hel refuses Siri’s plea Josefin Asplund, Matthew Modine SERIES for help in taking care of some business by WRITERS swapping places with her for a few days. Much Charlie Fletcher, Rachel Flowerday to her horror, Hel wakes up the next day to DIRECTORS find Siri gone. She soon realizes that Siri isn’t Oskar Thor Axelsson, coming back, and that the clinic is far from a Enrico Maria Artale place of recovery. PRODUCERS Marianne Gray, Roy Anderson Hel is now trapped in a waking nightmare in which no-one is who they seem to be and every- PRODUCTION COMPANIES one believes that she is Siri. Surrounded by the 2019 Yellow Bird in coproduction with TMG most predatory and manipulative people imag- inable, escape is now only the second order of credits non-contractual | NEW RELEASES business; Hel’s first problem is simple: survival … 09
INSTINTO EROTIC THRILLER SERIES | 8 X 1 HR SPANISH LANGUAGE IN POST-PRODUCTION ORIGINATING BROADCASTER Marco Mur is an attractive, successful business- MOVISTAR+ (Spain) man, but a trauma from his past prevents him CAST from getting emotionally involved with women. Mario Casas, Ingrid García-Jonsson, Instead, he has intimate encounters in a club Óscar Casas, Bruna Cusí SERIES where no one knows anyone else. But his past CREATORS & WRITERS returns and now Marco must face it and all the Teresa Fernández-Valdés, other conflicts of his life. Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira DIRECTOR Instinto is an erotic thriller about passion, Carlos Sedes intimacy, sex, trust and, of course, love. It is EXECUTIVE PRODUCER a thought-provoking drama about human Domingo Corral relationships, in particular about people’s fears and solitude. PRODUCERS 2019 Teresa Fernández-Valdés, Ramón Campos PRODUCTION COMPANIES | NEW RELEASES A Movistar+ production in collaboration with Bambú Producciones credits non-contractual 11
VERNON SUBUTEX DRAMA SERIES | 9 X 30 MIN FRENCH LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTER Vernon Subutex, an unemployed former owner CANAL+ (France) of legendary record shop Revolver is evicted CAST from his apartment. In his search for a place to Romain Duris, Celine Sallette, stay, Vernon contacts his former friends who Philippe Rebot, Fishbach SERIES were involved in the music world with him in the INSPIRED BY 90’s. One of them is rock star Alex Bleach, who Virginie Despentes’ novels shortly after they meet dies of an overdose and «VERNON SUBUTEX – VOLUMES 1 AND 2» leaves behind three mysterious video tapes. Ver- non then slips anonymously into the city where DIRECTOR he becomes the most wanted man in Paris. Cathy Verney WRITERS Vernon Subutex takes us to today’s vibrant Cathy Verney & Benjamin Dupas Parisian streets and reveals a group of unusual characters, whose lives are all set to be united 2019 PRODUCERS Juliette Favreul Renaud & Estelle Sanson by one man – Vernon Subutex. for JE FILMS, and Emmanuel Daucé for TETRA MEDIA FICTION | NEW RELEASES PRODUCTION COMPANIES TETRA MEDIA STUDIO, 27.11 PRODUCTIONS credits non-contractual 13
ON DEATH ROW
ON DEATH ROW (EN EL CORREDOR DE LA MUERTE) TRUE CRIME DRAMA SERIES | 4 X 1 HR SPANISH / ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN POST-PRODUCTION ORIGINATING BROADCASTER 24th January 1994. Three corpses are found in MOVISTAR+ (Spain) Miami, Florida. Several clues are found includ- CAST ing a video. Three weeks later, a police agent Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Ramón Agirre, claims that he recognizes Pablo Ibar on the Marisé Álvarez SERIES video, a young Spanish who just got arrested ADAPTED FROM for a minor theft. This is where the struggle starts. the book ‘En El Corredor De La Pablo insists he is innocent. None of the traces Muerte’ by Nacho Carretero found on the crime scene accuse him. But the CREATORS & WRITERS relentless insistence of the district attorney put Ramon Campos, Gema R. Neira, Pablo through a never-ending, painful judicial Diego Sotelo process – composed of three trials. DIRECTOR Carlos Marques-Marcet The series will narrate Pablo Ibar’s fight to have a fair trial, from the day when the triple murder 2019 EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Domingo Corral, Ismael Calleja, was committed until the day of the final sentence Francisco Araujo in April 2019 when Pablo Ibar could either be | NEW RELEASES PRODUCERS released or go back to the death row and wait Teresa Fernandez-Valdes, to be executed. Ramon Campos PRODUCTION COMPANIES The story is told from four points of view – those A Movistar+ production of Pablo Ibar, his wife Tanya, his family and in collaboration with the judiciary (judges, district attorneys, lawyers, Bambú Producciones police officers, witnesses) and journalists. credits non-contractual 15
IN S DE EA VE SO LO N PM 8 EN T SPIRAL 7
SPIRAL 7 (ENGRENAGES) CRIME DRAMA SERIES | 12 X 1 HR FRENCH LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTER After six thrilling seasons, Spiral is back for a CANAL+ (France) seventh series of criminal investigations in Paris, CAST as it embraces the various perspectives of those Audrey Fleurot, Caroline Proust, involved in the judicial system: the police and Thierry Godard SERIES the judicial authorities. HEAD WRITER Marine Francou Berthaud and Gilou are being brought back DIRECTORS together by a double homicide in a Chinese Frédéric Jardin, Jean-Philippe Amar restaurant located in the district of Belleville. One of the victims is the team’s esteemed PRODUCER Daniel Dubois former superior. PRODUCTION COMPANY All of them will have to face unexpected hurdles SON ET LUMIERE and solve a dilemma: give up the truth or betray the institution they have faithfully served. 2019 credits non-contractual The series outperformed all other CANAL+ | RETURNING CREATION ORIGINALE’s premieres since November 2017: average of 725K viewers and 18,4% MS (+50% vs SPIRAL S6 premiere). 17
FO RM AV A AI T R LA IG BL HT E S TRUST ME
TRUST ME (SEASON 1 & 2) SEASON 1 4 X 1 HR PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SERIES SEASON 2 4 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE SEASON 2 IN POST-PRODUCTION ORIGINATING BROADCASTER Trust Me Season 2 follows the story of Corporal BBC One (UK) Jamie McCain, a survivor of a shock enemy CAST attack. Recovering from a spinal injury which Alfred Enoch, John Hannah, has left him temporarily paralysed, Jamie faces Ashley Jensen, Richard Rankin SERIES a new enemy as fellow patients on the ward die CREATOR & WRITER unexpectedly around him. But with his behaviour Dan Sefton becoming increasingly erratic, is the threat real DIRECTOR or imagined and is Jamie a man we can trust? John Alexander Season 1 – starring Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) PRODUCER Suzanne Reid won hit launch ratings of 6.2m consolidated viewers and a share of 26% (4.4m overnight PRODUCTION COMPANY viewers) in a BBC One prime time slot. It outper- 1 RED Production Company N formed the BBC One slot average and retained O AS 90% of its overnight viewers. 2019 credits non-contractual SE Series 1 has already been sold to over 120 | RETURNING territories internationally. 19
BELOW THE SURFACE (GIDSELTAGNINGEN | SEASON 1 & 2) SEASON 1 8 X 1 HR CRIME-THRILLER SERIES SEASON 2 8 X 1 HR DANISH LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS Following Season one’s dramatic finale, Philip is KANAL 5, DISCOVERY NETWORKS DENMARK (Denmark), on a leave of absence from Terror Task Force ZDFneo (Germany) (TTF) and begins to look into the mysterious disappearance of a former acquaintance, June. CAST SERIES Johannes Lassen, Ola Rapace, The young politics student had just returned from Yasmin Mahmoud, Soren Pilmark, Syria where a bounty was placed on her head Soren Malling for joining the fight against ISIS. Three Islamic CREATOR & WRITER terrorists have come to collect what’s theirs … Jesper Bernt Philip’s search leads him on board a passenger ferry en route to Sweden. When the situation DIRECTORS Christian E. Christiansen escalates and the terrorists take over the ship, & Mogens Hagedorn Philip finds himself in the middle of an interna- tional political crisis. He realizes he will not only 1 PRODUCER N have to fight for the passengers and June’s lives, O Morten Kjems Hytten Juhl AS but for his own as well. 2019 SE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen Season 1 was a success in Sweden (26% market | RETURNING & Adam Price share, doubled prime time slot average on PRODUCTION COMPANY Kanal 5). In addition to these strong ratings, SAM PRODUCTIONS lead actor Johannes Lassen won a TV Drama credits non-contractual Series Award for Outstanding Actor at the Mon- te Carlo Festival (2018). The series has already been sold to 92 territories. 21
FO RM AV A AI T R LA IG BL HT E S
LA PORTA ROSSA (SEASON 1 & 2) SEASON 1 12 X 1 HR CRIME DRAMA SERIES SEASON 2 12 X 1 HR ITALIAN LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTER After having identified his murderer in season RAI 2 (Italy) one, Commissioner Cagliostro is still in the world CAST of the living. But when the time comes to leave Gabriella Pession, Lino Guanciale the earthly life forever, something unexpected SERIES CREATORS & WRITERS happens: Jonas, the mentor met in the spiritual di- Carlo Lucarelli, Giampero Rigosi, mension, awakens from the coma. But who really Sofia Assirelli, Michele Cogo, is this man? And why is he portrayed in a photo Davide Orsini with Rambelli, the person responsible for Cagli- DIRECTOR ostro’s death? Cagliostro must get to the bottom Carmine Elia of Jonas’ identity and deal with some surprising PRODUCERS new allegations from Rambelli’s murder trial, so Tommaso Dazzi & Maurizio Tini that he can protect his newborn daughter whose innocent life could be in grave danger. 1 PRODUCTION COMPANY N O Velafilm in association with AS Season 1 succeeded in bringing Rai 2 to first 2019 Garbo Produzioni SE place amongst all networks during prime time – credits non-contractual even outperforming Rai’s main channel. | RETURNING The series finale was branded as an “ab- solute novelty in Italian television”, which “left audiences speechless” – with episodes 11 and 12 achieving an impressive 14.41% share and 3.39 million viewers. 23
MOSCOW NOIR (DIRIGENTEN) THRILLER SERIES | 8 X 1 HR ENGLISH / SWEDISH / RUSSIAN LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS From multiple award-winning director Mikael CMore/TV4 (Scandinavia), NC+ (Poland) Häfström (Netflix TV series Bloodline) and producer Piodor Gustafsson (Border: Sweden’s CAST 2018 Oscar Submission) comes a smart, dark Adam Pålsson, Karolina Gruszka, SERIES Linda Zilliacus and wickedly entertaining thriller, inspired by a true story. CREATORS & WRITERS Aleksi Bardy, Mia Ylonen, Max Barron In turn-of-the-21st-century Moscow, an innocent trade plunges Swedish investment banker Tom DIRECTOR Blixen into a battle with millionaires, politicians, Mikael Håfström oligarchs and their private armies. BASED ON The novel The Conductor from Saint As enemies and killers reveal themselves, Petersburg by Camilla Grebe & Paul Leander-Engström Babushka doll-style, Tom must rely on his wits to survive, running not only from dangers he can’t PRODUCER predict but also from something deeper–his Piodor Gustafsson own past, where the skeletons in his closet are PRODUCTION COMPANY beginning to stir. Black Spark Film & TV credits non-contractual 25
ILLEGALS (NIELEGALNI) SPY THRILLER SERIES | 10 X 1 HR POLISH / RUSSIAN / ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTER While taking over a Belorussian arms dealer NC+ (Poland) in Istanbul, Konrad Wolski, the head of the Q CAST Department, an elite unit of the Polish intelli- Grzegorz Damięcki, gence, learns about a planned terrorist attack in Agnieszka Grochowska, SERIES Andrzej Seweryn, Sylwia Juszczak Sweden. WRITERS Konrad immediately activates Travis, a Polish Dorota Jankojć-Poddębniak, Maciej Kubicki, Bartosz Staszczyszyn sleeper agent in the Minsk division of KGB, to get intelligence that would foil the terrorists’ plan. DIRECTORS Leszek Dawid, Jan P. Matuszynski The whole thing is complicated by the fact PRODUCERS that Travis has just been compromised by a Anna Kępińska, Maciej Kubicki Belorussian KGB officer. Sara, an officer of the Polish Intelligence Agency, heads off to Minsk to 2018 PRODUCTION COMPANY TELEMARK exfiltrate Travis. credits non-contractual | NEW RELEASES 27
IN S DE EA FO VE SO RM LO N AV A PM 2 AI RT EN LA IG T BL HT E S
PROS AND CONS (FRIHEDEN) DRAMEDY SERIES | 10 X 1 HR DANISH LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTER When they were young and in love, Nina and VIAPLAY (Scandinavia) Erik lived adrenaline-fueled lives as con artists CAST with their partner in crime, Jacqueline. But when Lene Maria Christensen, Nina became pregnant, the young couple with- Lars Ranthe, Lotte Andersen SERIES drew from their criminal life and settled down in CREATOR & WRITER the suburbs of Copenhagen. Thor Bjorn Krebs, Mikkel Serup DIRECTOR Erik and Nina now lead regular lives as Mikkel Serup law-abiding citizens with their teenage daughter and 8-year-old son. Their creative and exciting PRODUCER Stine Meldgaard Madsen scams have been replaced by parent-teacher meetings, packed lunches and mortgages. PRODUCTION COMPANY SAM Productions In the midst of a marital crisis, Jacqueline, who credits non-contractual continued her life as a con artist, reappears and changes everything. By threatening to reveal their past identity, she talks Nina and Erik into one last con scamming a large pharmaceutical company. The couple must now navigate two very different lives, both as con artists and subur- ban parents. But smaller lies lead to bigger ones and as their plan starts to unfold, they find that old habits die hard. 29
IN S DE EA VE SO LO N PM 2 EN T INTERNS
INTERNS (HIPPOCRATE) DRAMA SERIES | 8 X 1 HR FRENCH LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTER CANAL+ Creation Originale presents for the CANAL+ (France) first time, together with multi-award nominee CAST director and former doctor Thomas Lilti Louise Bourgoin, Alice Belaïdi, (Irreplaceable), a fresh and unique take on Karim Leklou SERIES the medical drama genre. CREATORS & WRITERS Thomas Lilti, Julien Lilti, Due to some drastic preventative health measures Anaïs Carpita, Claude le Pape undertaken in a public hospital, the doctors in DIRECTOR charge of the intern department find themselves Thomas Lilti quarantined at home for 24 hours. PRODUCERS Agnès Vallée, Emmanuel Barraux Three inexperienced interns and a medical examiner who do not know each other must PRODUCTION COMPANY 31 Juins Films tackle the situation head-on and handle the department on their own, unaware that this credits non-contractual temporary quarantine is about to be extended indefinitely. The series’ premiere over-performed the most recent 2018 CREATION ORIGINALE launches, gathering 537K viewers with a 12,7 % MS on CANAL+ subscribers. 31
INVISIBLES – A CHILDHOOD IN AFRICA DRAMA SERIES | 10 X 1 HR FRENCH LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTER Rio, Maputo, Baltimore, Brazzaville, Paris, Abid- CANAL+ AFRICA jan, Mexico–throughout the world, in more and CAST more cities, child gangs are forming, fighting, Ali Cisse, Marie Josée Nene, hiding and engaging in all kinds of criminal ac- Alexis Kouame, Lancina Diaby SERIES tivity. But only the cursed become the Invisibles. CREATORS & WRITERS Alex Ogou, Aka Assié Chaka and his older sister, Hadjara, decide to DIRECTOR leave their debt-ridden parents. To survive, the Alex Ogou girl finds a job, but Chaka, too young to work, is led astray by his friend Timo, who introduces PRODUCER Karamoko Toure him to a gang leader, Kouess. CO-PRODUCER As Hadjara tries to save her brother from a life CANAL+ INTERNATIONAL of crime, a ruthless struggle breaks out between 2018 PRODUCTION COMPANY Chaka and Kouess. TSK STUDIOS (Ivory Coast) | NEW RELEASES credits non-contractual It’s the start of an all-out war … 33
FO RM AV A AI T R LA IG BL HT E S ODA UPSIDE DOWN
ODA UPSIDE DOWN (ODA OMVENDT) MAGICAL REALISM SERIES | 10 X 10 MIN DANISH LANGUAGE COMPLETED ORIGINATING BROADCASTER Oda Upside Down has invented a magical zap- DR Ramasjang (Denmark) per, charged with imagination – and if a shot of CAST imagination hits you, it truly becomes hard not to Andreas Jebro, Laura Emilie Hancock look at things a little bit upside down. SERIES CREATORS & WRITERS Ida Mule Scott & Iben Albinus Sabroe As Oda arrives and parks her big bouncy camping-ball in a small, ordinary town, she DIRECTOR Oliver Ussing quickly realizes that the town’s kindergarten teacher Balder, rules over the children and their PRODUCERS parents with all kinds of regulations. Stine Meldgaard Madsen, Emilie Lebech Kaae Luckily, Oda helps the children, and quickly PRODUCTION COMPANY even the most boring parents become fun and SAM Productions imaginative. 2018 credits non-contractual | NEW RELEASES 35
SERIES MINI-SERIES DRAMA SERIES | SEASON 1 & 2 | 20 X 1 HR DANISH LANGUAGE TV MOVIES ORIGINAL TITLE HERRENS VEJE Ride Upon the Storm explores good and evil and the spiritual journey towards seeking a greater meaning in ANIMATION ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS DR1 (Denmark), ARTE (France/Germany) life – because we all want to believe in something when CAST a storm is approaching. Lars Mikkelsen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Simon Sears, Fanny Louise Bernth, Camilla Lau Critically-acclaimed and winner of multiple awards, the CREATOR Adam Price series’ first season performed extremely well: 747.000 WRITERS viewers on DR1 and a 38 % market share, an impressive Adam Price, Karina Dam, Poul Berg 15% above the slot average and the highest streaming CONCEPT DIRECTOR Kaspar Munk results for a Danish drama since FOLLOW THE MONEY. PRODUCTION COMPANIES Lars Mikkelsen won an International Emmy Award for best DR Drama in coproduction with ARTE France and SAM le Français actor, and the series won Best Non-English-Language credits non-contractual Drama at C21 Awards in 2018.
E S BL HT LA IG AI T R AV MA R FO SERIES THRILLER CRIME SERIES | 6 X 1 HR POLISH LANGUAGE THRILLER CRIME SERIES | 6 X 1 HR | CO-DISTRIBUTED WITH GAUMONT FRENCH LANGUAGE ORIGINAL TITLE KRUK Adam Kruk, a 40-year-old police officer addicted ORIGINATING BROADCASTER CANAL+ (France) Featuring multi award-winning French actresses Nathalie ORIGINATING BROADCASTER to painkillers and psychotropic drugs, returns to the town CAST Baye (Catch me if you Can) and Maïwenn (The Fifth NC+ (Poland) he grew up in to find the paedophile who abused his Nathalie Baye, Maïwenn, Malik Zidi Element, Poliss), NOX is the most consumed in-demand CAST Michal Zurawski, Cezary Lukaszewicz, friend Slawek years ago. Once there, he is unexpectedly CREATORS Fred Cavaye, Nquoc Dang Tran, Creation Originale (‘CO’) on MyCanal in one week, with Jerzy Schejbal, Andrzej Zaborski, Mariusz Jakus, Barbara Wypych called to investigate a new case: the kidnapping of a Jerome Fasten an average of over 270.000 orders per episode. CREATOR & WRITER powerful man’s grandson, which he undertakes to help WRITER Nquoc Dang Tran Jakub Korolczuk set him free from his past mistakes. As the case unfolds, DIRECTOR In the darkness beneath Paris, retired cop Catherine DIRECTOR Maciej Pieprzyca he discovers answers which will reveal an unexpected Mabrouk el Mechri Suzini is forced back into action when her daughter LINE PRODUCER link between these two cases … PRODUCERS François Kraus and Julie disappears into the Paris sewers. Catherine and her Opus TV (Ida, Cold War) Denis Pineau-Valencienne daughter’s partner, Raphael, must chase every clue and PRODUCTION COMPANY ITI Neovision S.A. Raven had a successful launch with a strong audience PRODUCTION COMPANY Gaumont Television use all their instincts to navigate the hellish descent into credits non-contractual across the board: 380.000 viewers per episode on credits non-contractual this terrifying maze of the catacombs in a race against NC+ and digital platforms. time in the very bowels of the city. 37
T T PM 2 EN PM 3 EN LO N LO N VE SO VE SO E S BL T DE EA DE EA H LA IG S S AI T R AV MA IN IN R FO SERIES THRILLER CRIME SERIES | 10 X 1 HR SWEDISH / DANISH LANGUAGE POLITICAL THRILLER SERIES | SEASON 1 & 2 | 16 X 1 HR FRENCH LANG. ORIGINAL TITLE ADVOKATEN A Viaplay Original and TV3 drama produced by SF ORIGINATING BROADCASTER CANAL+ (France) In order to “Save the Republic”, Amelie Dorendeu, who ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS Studios, The Lawyer is based on a concept created by CAST is running for the top job in France’s presidential election, Viaplay/MTG (Sweden), TV3 (Denmark) internationally bestselling author Jens Lapidus (Easy Mon- Kad Merad, Anna Mouglalis, Pascal Elbe, François Morel, follows Philippe Rickwaert’s dangerous, twisted strategy. CAST Alexander Karim, Malin Buska, ey trilogy), acclaimed screenwriter and creator of The Hugo Becker Recently released from prison and pending trial, Rick- Thomas Bo Larsen, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Nicolaj Kopernikus Bridge, Hans Rosenfeldt, and bestselling author, scriptwrit- CREATORS & WRITERS Eric Benzekri, Jean-Baptiste Delafon waert has no choice but to guide Amelie from behind the CREATORS er and director Michael Hjorth (Sebastian Bergman), with DIRECTORS scenes. However, Amelie’s short victory and the divisions Jens Lapidus, Hans Rosenfeldt and Michael Hjorth Academy Award nominee Nicklas Wikström Nicastro Ziad Doueiri, Antoine Chevrollier in the country soon lead to an unprecedented institution- WRITERS and Joakim Hansson as producers. Set in Copenha- PRODUCTION COMPANIES Kwaï with the participation of al crisis. Will Rickwaert’s tactical genius be enough to Karin Gidfors & Charlotte Lesche gen, this sharp and intelligent thriller centres on Frank CANAL+ and Pictanovo reconcile the irreconcilable? DIRECTORS Geir Henning Hopland, David Berron Nordling, a young and exceptionally promising defense credits non-contractual PRODUCERS lawyer whose whole world unravels when he learns the Baron Noir S1 delivered around 1.1M viewers on average Nicklas Wikström Nicastro and Joakim Hansson truth behind his parents’ death. When he finds out who per episode. S2 was very successful as well, with on-demand PRODUCTION COMPANY was responsible, he feels compelled to seek revenge … scores up 25% over season 1 already heavily consumed. SF Studios Production AB credits non-contractual 38
SERIES © Photo: Stéphane Grangier – Simon Toupet / CANAL+ CRIME DRAMA SERIES | SEASON 1 –6 | 64 X 1 HR FRENCH LANGUAGE ORIGINAL TITLE ENGRENAGES SEASON 1 | The body of a young Romanian woman is discovered SEASON 4 | The story unfolds to reveal a group of extremists ORIGINATING BROADCASTER on a Parisian rubbish dump. As her identity and past life are gradually determined to wage war against the Parisian police force and develop CANAL+ (France) revealed by the investigating French justice system, it becomes a dangerous arms trafficking operation. CAST Audrey Fleurot, Thierry Godard, apparent that her story ties to a network of corruption. Caroline Proust, Gregory Fitoussi SEASON 5 | In this season, police officers, lawyers and judges are CREATORS & WRITERS Guy-Patrick Sainderichin (S1), SEASON 2 | This second season opens with the discovery of a called upon to work on the same case that plunges them into the Virginie Brac (S2), Anne Landois (S3 to S6) dead body, a man burnt alive in the trunk of a car. The progress of northern districts of Paris and its immediate suburbs, in the circles of DIRECTORS the investigation will lead the characters to infiltrate a drug trafficking organized crime, informants and girl gangs. Frédéric Jardin, Jean-Philippe Amar network. PRODUCTION COMPANY SON ET LUMIERE SEASON 6 | The police is called to an exceptional crime scene: credits non-contractual SEASON 3 | This season explores a different universe: a terrifying a human trunk found in a pile of bulky objects. A challenging and affair where a man attacks young women. Laure Berthaud and her men complex investigation begins. are engaged in a race against time in pursuit of a serial killer. 39
E S BL HT LA IG AI T R AV MA R FO SERIES DRAMEDY SERIES | 12 X 30 MIN FRENCH LANGUAGE CRIME SERIES | 8 X 1 HR MULTI - LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTER CANAL+ (France) Paris etc. centres on the engaging, emotional and often ORIGINAL TITLE JOUR POLAIRE Leïla Bekhti (The Prophet) and Gustaf Hammarsten (The CAST funny stories of five very different heroines as their lives ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS Girl with The Dragon Tattoo) star in this high-concept Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Anaïs Demoustier, Naidra Ayadi, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, cross over the course of a season. CANAL+ (France), SVT (Sweden) thriller from Mårlind& Stein (Bron/Broen). Zabou Breitman CAST Leïla Bekhti, Gustaf Hammarsten, DIRECTOR Zabou Breitman With the city of Paris as its backdrop, the series seam- Peter Stormare Kahina Zadi (Bekhti), a French police officer, travels to a BASED ON THE IDEA OF lessly blends their relatable everyday experiences with CREATORS Mårlind & Stein small mining community in remote northern Sweden to Maïwenn larger-than-life drama as each of them attempts to make BASED ON AN IDEA BY investigate the brutal murder of a French citizen. Faced WRITERS Maïwenn, Anne Berest, Zabou Breitman sense of their place in the world and discover who they Henrik Jansson-Schweizer and Patrick Nebout with new killings, Kahina, with the help of Anders Harnesk WITH THE COLLABORATION OF want to be. WRITER (Hammarsten), a Swedish DA and member of the indig- Philippe Lefebvre, Jérémie Elkaïm, Gabor Rassov Måns Mårlind enous Sami tribe, begins to unearth a secret conspiracy PRODUCERS DIRECTORS Mårlind & Stein involving the town’s inhabitants, as she finds herself con- François Kraus and Denis Pineau-Valencienne PRODUCTION COMPANIES fronting a ruthless serial killer and her own painful past. Nice Drama and Atlantique Productions PRODUCTION COMPANY LES FILMS DU KIOSQUE COPRODUCERS CANAL+, SVT, Filmpool Nord credits non-contractual credits non-contractual 40
E S BL HT LA IG AI T R AV MA R FO SERIES CRIME DRAMA SERIES | SEASON 1 & 2 | 18 X 1 HR POLISH LANG. COMEDY HORROR SERIES | 6 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINAL TITLE BELFER After the huge success of S1 (most watched program ever in ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS Channel 4 (UK), Netflix (ROW) Amy and Raquel attempt to navigate their way through ORIGINATING BROADCASTER the history of CANAL+ Poland), S2 hits a breaking record CAST the choppy waters of their early twenties whilst simulta- NC+ (Poland) for its opening (with a 57% higher rate than first season). Cara Theobold, Susan Wokoma, Riann Steele, Lewis Reeves, neously kicking the ass of some seriously gnarly demons CAST Maciej Stuhr, Eliza Rycembel, With a new eight-part season directed by Lukasz Palkowski Arinze Kene, Tony Curran in this bold six-part comedy horror series, created by Zofia Wichłacz, Michalina Łabacz, Mirosław Haniszewski, (Gods, Rezerwat) and Maciej Bochniak (Disco Polo) featur- WRITTEN AND CREATED BY Howard Overman BAFTA award-winning Howard Overman (Misfits). Aleksandra Konieczna, Szymon Piotr Warszawski, ing a line-up of new talent alongside returning cast. DIRECTORS Krystian Pesta, Philippe Tłokiński, Stefan Pawłowski Al Mackay, Declan O’Dwyer Laced with dark humour, CRAZYHEAD is thrilling, anarchic CREATIVE PRODUCER Delivering answers from open questions left at the end of S1, PRODUCTION COMPANY Urban Myth Films and utterly rude but at its core is about love, friendship Wojciech Bockenheim S2 embarks on a brand new gripping storyline as teacher credits non-contractual and accepting who you are. Produced by Urban Myth WRITERS Monika Powalisz, Jakub Żulczyk, Paweł Zawadzki (Aftermath, Letters to Santa) finds himself Films for Channel 4 in association with Netflix, starring Bartosz Ignaciuk, Wojciech Bockenheim forced to take up a new job at an elite high school in Wro- Cara Theobold (Downton Abbey) and Susan Wokoma DIRECTORS Krzysztof Łukaszewicz, claw. A few days after he joins, a tragic event takes place (Chewing Gum). Maciej Bochniak at the school – leaving many questions, but no answers. PRODUCTION COMPANY ITI Neovision S.A. credits non-contractual 41
E S BL HT LA IG AI T R AV MA R FO SERIES THRILLER SERIES | 8 X 1 HR ENGLISH / GERMAN LANGUAGE THRILLER SERIES | 10 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS ITV (UK), Netflix (ROW) From BAFTA-winning producer Nicola Shindler (Happy ORIGINATING BROADCASTER Sky 1 (UK) From bestselling author Harlan Coben, with a screenplay CAST Valley) and creator/writer Bill Gallagher (Conviction) CAST by BAFTA and Emmy®-winning writer Danny Brocklehurst, Indira Varma, Robert Glenister, Neil Stuke, Lesley Sharp, comes conspiracy thriller PARANOID, starring Robert Tom Cullen, O-T Fagbenle, Lee Ingleby, Sarah Solemani, this compelling original thriller is packed with shocking Christiane Paul, Michael Maloney, Dino Fetscher, Kevin Doyle, Glenister, Indira Varma, Dino Fetscher and Christiane Paul. Geraldine James, Michael Maloney twists to keep audiences hooked. Danny Huston AN ORIGINAL STORY FOR TELEVISION BY CREATOR Bill Gallagher When a woman is murdered in plain view of numerous Harlan Coben When they were twelve years old, Mark (Tom Cullen), WRITER eyewitnesses, four detectives embark on a seemingly WRITER Danny Brocklehurst Pru (Sarah Solemani), Danny (O-T Fagbenle) and Slade Bill Gallagher straightforward case. However, as they are drawn into DIRECTOR (Lee Ingleby) were out together in the park. Mark’s five- DIRECTORS Mark Tonderai, Kenny Glenaan, an ever-darkening mystery, the small-town cops soon Mark Tonderai year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were John Duthie realize they are battling a formidable foe on a global PRODUCTION COMPANY RED Production Company mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. Never to be PRODUCTION COMPANY RED Production Company scale. But before they can fight the real enemy in this credits non-contractual seen again. Twenty years on, Danny – now a detective – credits non-contractual David and Goliath story, they must also face their own learns some shocking news. Jesse’s DNA has been found personal demons. at a murder scene… 42
E S BL HT LA IG AI T R AV MA R FO SERIES DRAMA SERIES | 8 X 1 HR MULTI - LANGUAGE LIMITED CRIME DRAMA SERIES | 6 X 1 HR MULTI - LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTER CANAL+ (France) Dark, edgy and violent political sci-fi thriller SECTION ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS Sky (UK), CANAL+ (France) Golden Globe® winner Samantha Morton, César winner CAST ZERO is set in the near future, where multi-national CAST Tahar Rahim and Oscar® nominee John Hurt star in this Ola Rapace, Pascal Greggory, Catherine Marchal, Francis Renaud, corporations are Europe’s new leaders. Samantha Morton, Tahar Rahim, Goran Bogdan and John Hurt thrilling crime drama based on real events. Laurent Malet, Hilde De Baerdemaeker, Juliette Dol, Marc Barbé, CREATOR Gérald Laroche, Michaël Erpelding, Jean-Michel Fête and Tchéky Karyo One of the most powerful, Prometheus, seeks to secure Jack Thorne in collaboration with Jérôme Pierrat A daring jewel heist bears all the hallmarks of the notori- CREATED BY its dominance by replacing the police with its own BASED ON AN ORIGINAL IDEA BY ous ‘Pink Panthers’ gang but with one tragic difference: Olivier Marchal private militias, led by Henry Munro (Pascal Greggory). Jean-Alain Laban & Jérôme Pierrat the death of a little girl sets off a chain of events across WRITERS Olivier Marchal, Laurent Guillaume, Idealistic officer Sirius Becker (Ola Rapace) takes charge WRITER Jack Thorne DIRECTOR Johan Renck Europe. A British insurance loss adjuster (Samantha Franck Philippon, Edgar Marie, David Martinez, Yann Brion of clandestine elite squadron Section Zéro, alongside PRODUCTION COMPANIES Morton), her nefarious boss (John Hurt), a French-Algerian DIRECTORS old cop Franck Varnove (Tchéky Karyo), to battle these Haut et Court TV & Warp Films with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA cop (Tahar Rahim) and a Serbian gang member (Goran Olivier Marchal and Ivan Fegyvères militias before the world they’ve known disappears for- Programme of the European Union, with the participation of CNC, Bogdan) are on a dangerous collision course, as the trail PRODUCTION COMPANIES EuropaCorp Television, ever. From César-nominated writer and director Olivier STUDIOCANAL, Ciné+, with the support of Région Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur of diamonds weaves through the evolving united Europe Bad Company and Umedia Marchal (Braquo). DISTRIBUTORS of organized crime. credits non-contractual Sky Vision & STUDIOCANAL credits non-contractual 43
E S E S BL HT BL HT LA IG LA IG AI T R AI T R AV MA AV MA R R FO FO N O O N E I S E V E R R E A L LY C L E A N SERIES DRAMA SERIES | 10 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE CRIME SERIES | SEASON 1 –3 | 34 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTER CANAL+(France) Written by BAFTA-winner Ed McCardie, dark, funny and ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS TF1 (France), AXN (multi-territory), Combining contemporary cross-border crime with CAST irreverent drama SPOTLESS stars César-winner Marc-André SAT.1 (Germany) gut-wrenching character drama, CROSSING LINES CAST Marc-André Grondin, Denis Ménochet, Miranda Raison, Grondin, Inglourious Basterds’ Denis Ménochet, 24’s William Fichtner, Marc Lavoine, returns as Goran Visnjic (ER) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost) Gabriella Pession, Tom Wlaschiha, and Brendan Coyle Miranda Raison and Downton Abbey’s Brendan Coyle. Richard Flood, Lara Rossi and join Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games) and Tom Donald Sutherland (S1 to S3), CREATORS Corinne Marrinan and Ed McCardie S2 with recurring special guest stars Wlaschiha (Game of Thrones). Carrie-Anne Moss and Ray Stevenson, HEAD WRITER Jean’s (Marc-André Grondin) life is turned upside down S3 starring Goran Visnjic, Elizabeth Mitchell, Stuart Martin and Naomi Battrick Ed McCardie when his outlaw brother Martin (Denis Ménochet) crash Six months after the heart-stopping conclusion of Season CREATOR DIRECTORS Pascal Chaumeil et al. lands into his world and ensnares them both in organ- Edward Allen Bernero Two, one of Dorn’s (Sutherland) top prosecutors has PRODUCTION COMPANIES ized crime. Against the backdrop of Jean’s crime scene DIRECTORS Daniel Percival, Niall MacCormick et al. vanished and he must reactivate the team to find her, A TANDEM PRODUCTION in association with CANAL+ for cleaning business, the brothers must confront dark sins PRODUCTION COMPANIES recruiting kidnapping expert Marco (Visnjic) and skilled CANAL+ CREATION ORIGINALE of the past and very real dangers in the present as they TANDEM PRODUCTIONS and Bernero Productions in coproduction investigator Carine (Mitchell). Executive produced by credits non-contractual struggle to gain control over their future. with TF1 Production and in association with Sony Pictures Television Networks, Frank Spotnitz (The Man in the High Castle) and Rola Season 3: TANDEM PRODUCTIONS in association with Big Light Productions, Bauer (Spotless). Sony Pictures Television Networks and SAT.1 credits non-contractual 44
E S BL HT LA IG AI T R AV MA R FO SERIES NEW STREET LAW COMEDY SERIES | SEASON 1 & 2 | 24 X 33 MIN FRENCH LANGUAGE PROCEDURAL LEGAL DRAMA SERIES | 8 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINAL TITLE PLATANE Well known comedian in France, Éric is about to start a ORIGINATING BROADCASTER BBC (UK) Set in Manchester’s legal community, New Street Law ORIGINATING BROADCASTER new TV show with his long-time friend Ramzy. Drunk, he CAST follows the exploits, competitiveness and legal cases CANAL+(France) drives his car into a tree and falls in a 2 year-old coma. John Hannah, Paul Freeman of two rival law firms of barristers that both have very CAST Eric Judor, Ramzy Bédia, When he wakes up, lots have changed, and Eric decides CREATOR & WRITER G. F. Newman & Matthew Hall different attitudes to justice. Guillaume Canet, Jean Dujardin to give his career a new and different start. DIRECTOR CREATORS & WRITERS Eric Judor, Hafid F. Benamar Julian Holmes Jack Roper, a young barrister from a working-class DIRECTOR In the veins of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and PRODUCTION COMPANY RED Production Company background turned down a lucrative job offer from his Eric Judor The Office, Plane Tree is a cringe comedy that uses self- credits non-contractual mentor, Laurence Scammel QC, Head of Manchester’s PRODUCTION COMPANY 4 Mecs en Baskets deprecating humor. The sitcom is hilarious and witty, with leading prosecution chambers in favor of his own credits non-contractual a lot of improvising, offering something fresh to the genre. defense-only chambers. 45
E S E S BL HT BL HT LA IG LA IG AI T R AI T R AV MA AV MA R R FO FO SERIES THE SECOND COMING BOB & ROSE SUPERNATURAL DRAMA SERIES | 2 X 80 MIN ENGLISH LANGUAGE DRAMEDY SERIES | 6 X 47 MIN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTER ITV (UK) Steve Baxter, a video shop worker, is found wandering ORIGINATING BROADCASTER ITV (UK) The story follows the life of a gay school teacher Bob CAST the Yorkshire Moors after 40 days and nights, mumbling CAST who is fed up with the shallowness of the gay club scene Christopher Eccleston, Rory Kinnear, Lesley Sharp he is the Second Coming. The world’s media kicks into Lesley Sharp, Allan Davis in Manchester. A romantic at heart, Bob yearns to meet CREATOR & WRITER a frenzy. Steve has a simple purpose – Mankind must CREATOR & WRITER Russell T Davies the right person and settle down. After yet another unsuc- Russell T Davies produce a Third Testament or face Judgement Day, in DIRECTOR cessful date, he meets Rose while they are both waiting DIRECTOR Adrian Shergold five days’ time. Fear, cynicism and violence erupt, and Joe Wright for a taxi cab. Rose is disenchanted with her down-to- PRODUCTION COMPANY worldwide pandemonium ensues. Can the Son of God PRODUCTION COMPANY RED Production Company earth boyfriend and is smitten with Bob but she does not RED Production Company save human race? credits non-contractual initially realize he is gay. They start a love affair which is credits non-contractual bedeviled by the activities of Bob’s best friend Holly. 46
E S BL HT LA IG AI T R AV MA R FO THE COMPANY MINI–SERIES FAMILY DRAMA MINI-SERIES | 3 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE THRILLER MINI–SERIES | 3 X 2 HRS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTER BBC One (UK) A mini-series that explores the messy realities of par- ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS TNT (USA), SAT.1 (Germany), Based on Robert Littell’s bestseller and starring Academy CAST enthood, marriage and what happens when a mother BBC (UK), RAI (Italy) Award®-nominee Michael Keaton (Birdman), Chris O’Donnell Christopher Eccleston, Paula Malcomson switches the reset button on her life. At the heart of the se- CAST Chris O’Donnell, Alfred Molina, (NCIS: Los Angeles), and Alfred Molina (An Education). CREATOR & WRITER ries is an emotional mystery: what does it take for a moth- Michael Keaton, Alessandro Nivola, Rory Cochrane, Tom Hollander, Danny Brocklehurst er to walk out on her family, leaving her three children Natascha McElhone College friends are recruited to intelligence services on DIRECTOR Andrea Harkin behind? Come Home is a bold family drama told from BASED ON THE NOVEL BY Robert Littell opposite sides of the Cold War. While Yevgeny Tsipin PRODUCER different perspectives – the father, the kids, the mother TELEPLAY BY (Rory Cochrane) is working for the KGB, Jack McAuliffe Madonna Baptiste and finally, all of them embroiled in a divisive court case. Ken Nolan (Chris O’Donnell) and Leo Kritzky (Alessandro Nivola) EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Nicola Shindler, Danny Brocklehurst, DIRECTOR Mikael Salomon are CIA-side. Taking Jack under his wing, ‘The Sorceror’ Tommy Bulfin The series performed extremely well on BBC One with an PRODUCTION COMPANIES (Molina) seeks out a mole, but intelligence expert James PRODUCTION COMPANY RED Production Company average of 6M+ viewers per episode (including live TV Scott Free Productions, John Calley Productions, Jesus Angleton (Keaton) isn’t convinced they have the credits non-contractual views and catch-up). TANDEM PRODUCTIONS, Alchemy Television Group right man. An intriguing tale of betrayal and romance, in association with Sony Pictures Television inspired by real-life events. credits non-contractual 47
E S BL HT LA IG AI T R AV MA R FO MINI–SERIES DRAMA CRIME SERIES | 4 X 1 HR | CO-DISTRIBUTED WITH GAUMONT PORTUGUESE LANG. DRAMA MINI–SERIES | 2 X 2 HRS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTER STUDIO+ (France) The series follows the irresistible rise and descent into ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS SAT.1 (Germany), Channel 4 (UK) Starring Jessica Brown-Findlay (Downton Abbey), CAST hell of this small-time cop from Manaus as he becomes CAST Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) and Oscar® nominee John Augusto Madeira, Erico Bras “Tony’’, the almighty host of the show “Crime Time”, John Hurt, Sebastian Stan, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Vanessa Kirby, Hurt (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), LABYRINTH is adapted WRITERS Aurelien Molas, Valentine Milville, where crime scenes are broadcast night after night. Claudia Gerini, John Lynch, Janet Suzman, Emun Elliott, from Kate Mosse’s international bestseller. Jose Caltagirone Katie McGrath, Bernhard Schir, Lena Doerrie with Tony Curran DIRECTOR Julien Trousselier We see his moral decline, as Tony knows how to keep and Tom Felton Stumbling upon a monumental archaeological find, Alice PRODUCTION COMPANIES his audience happy, even if he has to commit some of the BASED ON THE NOVEL BY Kate Mosse (Vanessa Kirby) is driven by an inexplicable compulsion John Doe Productions 22h22 crimes in order to do so. WRITTEN FOR TELEVISION BY to discover the secrets of the past and of a mysterious credits non-contractual Adrian Hodges woman who lived 800 years ago, Alaïs (Jessica Brown- Crime Time was one of CANAL+’s highest rating TV DIRECTOR Christopher Smith Findlay). But what is Alaïs trying to lead her to? Two very series in Summer 2018, with similar results as Picnic at PRODUCTION COMPANIES different heroines, living in different times, must somehow Hanging Rock and Homeland. TANDEM PRODUCTIONS, Film Afrika Worldwide, work together to save a 4,000 year old secret from in association with Scott Free Productions getting into the wrong hands. credits non-contractual 48
MINI–SERIES DRAMA MINI-SERIES & DOCUMENTARY | 8 X 1 HR OR 4 X 2 HRS | 8 X 1 HR OR 4 X 2 HRS | 2 X 1 HR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS Channel 4 (UK), SAT.1 (Germany), STARZ (USA) Adapted from Ken Follett’s bestselling novels HOST and winners of two Emmy Awards, these epic Ken Follett mini-series star Academy Award winner Eddie CAST Cynthia Nixon, Ben Chaplin, Peter Firth, Charlotte Riley, Redmayne (The Theory of Everything), Donald Tom Weston-Jones, Rupert Evans, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Macfayden, Eddie Redmayne, Sutherland (The Hunger Games), Cynthia Nixon Donald Sutherland and many more (Sex and the City) and Tom Cullen (Downton WRITTEN BY Tilman Remme (documentary), John Pielmeier (mini-series) Abbey) among many others. BASED ON THE NOVELS BY Ken Follett Journey into the Dark Ages combines two DIRECTORS Michael Caton-Jones (World Without End) dramatic historical documentaries, in which Ken Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (The Pillars of the Earth) Follett explores the influence of three women on PRODUCTION COMPANIES TANDEM PRODUCTIONS, STORY HOUSE the shape of history and examines the impact of PRODUCTIONS, Take 5 Productions in association with Scott Free Productions, Muse Entertainment in the Bubonic Plague epidemic on Europe. association with Scott Free Productions credits non-contractual 49
MINI–SERIES ACTION MINI–SERIES | 2 X 2 HRS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACTION MINI–SERIES | 2 X 2 HRS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS ProSieben (Germany), ABC (USA) Starring David James Elliott (JAG), Natasha Henstridge ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS CBS (USA), RTL (Germany) Based on the bestselling novel by Robert Ludlum (The CAST (The Whole Ten Yards) and Benjamin Sadler (Francesco). CAST Bourne Trilogy) and starring Academy Award®-winning David James Elliott, Natasha Henstridge, Benjamin Sadler, Florentine Lahme Stephen Dorff, Mira Sorvino, Sophia Myles, Danny Huston, actresses Anjelica Huston (When in Rome) and Mira with Steven Culp and James Cromwell The world sees the largest meteor shower in 10,000 Josh Hopkins, Blair Underwood, Colm Meaney and Anjelica Huston Sorvino (Falling Skies), alongside Stephen Dorff (The Iceman) WRITER Michael Vickerman years. Suddenly a brown dwarf star hits the moon, BASED ON THE NOVEL BY and Sophia Myles (Transformers: Age of Extinction). DIRECTOR knocking it off course, resulting in strange anomalies and Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds Mike J. Rohl a horrifying effect on gravity. TELEPLAY BY Elwood Reid The President (Anjelica Huston) enlists Jon Smith (Stephen PRODUCTIONS COMPANIES TANDEM PRODUCTIONS, DIRECTOR Dorff) and Dr. Sophie Amsden (Sophia Myles) to investi- Jaffe/Braunstein Entertainment and Muse Entertainment When they discover the moon is on a collision course Mick Jackson gate three deaths from an Ebola-like virus. Smith learns credits non-contractual with Earth, scientists Alex Kittner (Elliott), Maddie Rhodes PRODUCTION COMPANIES The Sanitsky Company, his ex-lover and colleague Rachel Russel (Mira Sorvino) (Henstridge) and Roland Emmerson (Sadler) spearhead Ludlum Entertainment Productions in association with has gone rogue. A pandemic threatens millions as Smith a mission to correct its orbit, as the survival of mankind TANDEM PRODUCTIONS battles the deadly virus, uncovering bio-terrorism and hangs in the balance. credits non-contractual conspiracy at the highest levels of power. 50
MINI–SERIES DRAMA MINI–SERIES | 2 X 2 HRS + 1 X 3 HRS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS Channel 4 (UK), SAT.1 (Germany) Starring Max von Sydow (Robin Hood), Robert Pattinson CAST (Twilight), Julian Sands (Gotham), Kristanna Løken (Burn Benno Fürmann, Kristanna Løken, Alicia Witt, Julian Sands, Notice), Benno Fürmann (Joyeux Noël), Samuel West Samuel West, Robert Pattinson and Max von Sydow (Mr. Selfridge) and Alicia Witt (House of Lies). WRITERS Uli Edel, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood Raised by Eyvind (Max von Sydow), Prince Siegfried DIRECTOR (Benno Fürmann) slays a dragon, claiming its gold, which Uli Edel is cursed by the mystic Nibelungs, and falls for Brunhild PRODUCTION COMPANIES TANDEM PRODUCTIONS and (Kristanna Løken), the Valkyrie Queen. Siegfried entrusts VIP Media Funds 2&3 in association with the treasure to the King, whose advisor Hagen (Julian Uncharted Territory and FFF Bayern Sands) steals it with black magic, making Siegfried turn credits non-contractual his devotions to Princess Kriemhild (Alicia Witt), as the curse spins a web of betrayal, deception and greed. 51
TV MOVIES SANCTUARY DRAMA MOVIE | 1 X 90 MIN ENGLISH LANGUAGE THRILLER MOVIE | 1 X 2 HRS MULTI - LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS BBC One (UK), MASTERPIECE (US) Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The ORIGINAL TITLE SANCTUAIRE From Haut et Court, producers of the International CAST Imitation Game, Sherlock) stars alongside Kelly Macdon- ORIGINATING BROADCASTER Emmy® Award-winning Best Drama Series and Peabody Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Macdonald, ald (Boardwalk Empire, Trainspotting), Stephen Campbell CANAL+ (France) Award-winning The Returned. Based on real events. Stephen Campbell Moore, Saskia Reeves Moore (The History Boys, The Go-Between) and Saskia CAST Jérémie Renier, Alex Brendemühl, BASED ON THE NOVEL BY Reeves (Shetland, Wolf Hall) in Stephen Butchard’s Juana Acosta, Ruben Ochandiano The Basque country is under attack by GAL, a clandestine Ian McEwan adaptation of Ian McEwan’s award-winning novel, The BASED ON AN ORIGINAL IDEA BY Quitterie Duhurt-Gausseres Spanish paramilitary squad determined to put an end ADAPTATION BY Stephen Butchard Child in Time. WRITERS to Basque nationalist and separatist organisation ETA’s DIRECTOR Xabi Molia, Olivier Masset-Depasse, Pierre Erwan Guillaume ‘sanctuary’ in France. Txomin (Alex Brendemühl), chief of Julian Farino With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a DIRECTOR ETA, struggles to maintain control while Gregory Fortin PRODUCTION COMPANIES Pinewood Television marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of Olivier Masset-Depasse (Jérémie Renier), advisor to the French Justice Minister, and SunnyMarch TV time, grief, hope, and acceptance. The Child in Time is a PRODUCTION COMPANY Haut et Court TV attempts to broker peace. Txomin tries to protect Yoyes credits non-contractual lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and credits non-contractual (Juana Acosta), a former ETA radical who wishes to the power of things unseen. return to her Basque homeland. 52
THE TRUTH IS, WE’VE BEEN SOLD A LIE. TV MOVIES DRAMA MOVIE | 1 X 2 HRS ENGLISH LANGUAGE DOCUMENTARY | 1 X 2 HRS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTER BBC One (UK) Loosely based on actor and comedian Lenny Henry’s THEATRICAL RELEASE ORIGINATING COUNTRY World-famous British comedian and activist Russell Brand CAST life as a working-class teenager in 1970s Dudley, this UK (Get Him to the Greek) joins forces with acclaimed direc- Lenny Henry, Kascion Franklin, Cecilia Noble, Arthur Darvill, heart-warming comic single drama centers on Danny CAST Russell Brand tor Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) on a Richard Wilson, Mark Benton (Kascion Franklin), a talented impressionist, and his CREATOR polemical documentary about the financial crisis. CREATOR Lenny Henry Jamaican family. Michael Winterbottom WRITER WRITER Michael Winterbottom Using a mixture of documentary, interviews, archival Lenny Henry After winning a local talent competition, Danny finds DIRECTOR footage and comedy, Russell Brand takes us from the DIRECTOR Destiny Ekaragha himself on the comedy circuit, before hitting the big time Michael Winterbottom heart of The City of London to the Big Apple. This daring PRODUCTION COMPANY on TV. He has fame, fortune and the girl of his dreams – PRODUCTION COMPANY Revolution Films film will shake up the world by revealing the bewildering RED Production Company but his new life isn’t all it seems. Having made his name credits non-contractual truth about how the people at the bottom are paying for credits non-contractual by becoming other people, Danny has to save himself by the luxuries of those at the top. finding out who he really is. Also starring Cecilia Noble and Lenny Henry. 53
E S E S BL HT BL HT LA IG LA IG AI T R AI T R AV MA AV MA R R FO FO TV MOVIES ACTION MOVIE | 1 X 2 HRS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACTION MOVIE | 1 X 2 HRS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS ProSieben (Germany), Canale 5 (Italy) Starring Anna Friel (American Odyssey), Raoul Bova (The ORIGINATING BROADCASTERS RTL (Germany), Syfy (USA) Starring Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Sam Claflin (The CAST Tourist) and Andre Jacobs (Black Sails). CAST Hunger Games), Annabelle Wallis (The Tudors) and Anna Friel, Raoul Bova, Volker Bruch, Florentine Lahme, Sean Bean, Corey Sevier, Sam Claflin, Annabelle Wallis, Corey Sevier (Cedar Cove). Andre Jacobs Archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an Eleanor Tomlinson TELEPLAY BY Richard Kurti & Bev Doyle ancient scroll, revealing the location of the long-lost ‘Seal STORY BY Jonas Bauer Far in the future, jungles are overrun by beasts carrying a DIRECTOR of Solomon’. Angelo (Raoul Bova), a Treasure Guard TELEPLAY BY deadly illness. Savan (Corey Sevier), the future tribe chief, Iain B. MacDonald from a covert organization based in the Vatican, joins Diane Duane and Richard Kurti & Bev Doyle believes they are the only humans who have survived but PRODUCTION COMPANIES TANDEM PRODUCTIONS, Victoria to find it. They’re assisted by Angelo’s half brother, DIRECTOR young tracker, Kaleb (Sam Claflin), is convinced there are Film Africa Worldwide Luca (Volker Bruch), who has an agenda of his own, Mikael Salomon others also out there. credits non-contractual while Victoria’s estranged father, famous archaeologist PRODUCTION COMPANIES TANDEM PRODUCTIONS, Teddy Carter (Andre Jacobs), is also in pursuit. But nothing Film Africa Worldwide When the beasts attack, Amal (Sean Bean) saves Kaleb’s can prepare them for the most shocking twist of all. credits non-contractual life. With the help of Savan’s girlfriend, Dorel (Annabelle Wallis), they set out to find the cure. 54
You can also read