‘Wild Cards‘ Lands World Offers After Renewal
Canadian procedural Wild Playing cards has landed a raft of offers following its renewal in Canada at pubcaster CBC. The collection, which stars Vanessa Morgan (Riverdale) and Giacomo Gianniotti (Gray’s Anatomy) as an unlikely ex-con and sardonic cop duo who group to unravel crimes. Distributor Fifth Season has shopped a Season 1 and a couple of bundle of the present, which is on The CW within the U.S., to Talpa TV (Netherlands), Star Life (Portugal), Mediaset España (Spain), TV Joj (Slovakia), Warner TV (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa), NBCUniversal Worldwide Networks & Direct-to-Client (Africa), Now TV (Hong Kong), Wowow (Japan), Mediacorp TV (Singapore), 9 Community (Australia), Warner Bros. Discovery (New Zealand), and Sure and Sizzling (Israel). Season 1, which launched final 12 months as CBC’s highest-rating new collection in complete viewers phrases, has gone to Play Media (Belgium), ProSiebenSat.1 (Germany), Disney in Bulgaria and the Center East, and Quebecor Content material (French-speaking Canada). The present is from Fifth Season affiliate Blink49 Studios, Entrance Avenue Photos and Piller/Segan and was created by Michael Konyves. The offers comes forward of subsequent week’s London TV Screenings, with worldwide executives already starting to jet into a cold UK capital to take conferences with manufacturing companions and distributors.
The ATS Workforce Rebrands & Opens Manchester Workplace
EXCLUSIVE: Transatlantic manufacturing firm The ATS Workforce is rebranding, whereas concurrently opening a brand new workplace in Manchester, UK. Going forwards, the corporate might be often known as ATS. In Manchester, SVP of Manufacturing Nicola Griffiths will lead the workplace, constructing out worldwide co-productions and authentic manufacturing efforts. ATS sees the nations and areas base as a hub for expertise outdoors London. ATS — which already has places of work in LA, Lisbon and London — is understood for line manufacturing providers on reveals such because the Ninja Warrior franchise, Netflix’s Final Beastmaster and NBC’s The Titan Video games with Dwayne Johnson. It has pushed into authentic manufacturing over latest years, and the Manchester workplace will see Griffiths and her group working with native creatives and manufacturing homes. “We’re proud to be increasing ATS with a brand new regional base within the coronary heart of Manchester’s TV and movie manufacturing trade,” stated Danny Sanz, COO at ATS. “So many world productions are drawn to the town’s unbelievable expertise pool, progressive studio areas and various filming areas. As a firmly established inventive powerhouse within the UK’s trade, Manchester seems like a pure dwelling for ATS. We sit up for forging new partnerships and dealing with new expertise as we embark on this subsequent chapter.”
Pernel Media Underway On French Crime Drama ‘Murders In Millau’
Pernel Media has entered manufacturing on France Télévisions feature-length drama Murders In Millau. The crime drama stars Jean-Pierre Darroussin (The Bureau), Elodie Frégé (Potiche), Nicolas Briançon (Spiral), Aurelien Wiik (Munch), Shemss Audat (Inès et Yvan), Gary Mihaileanu (Alice Nevers), and Stéphane Blancafort (Tandem). Right here’s the logline: “Close to Millau viaduct, a corpse carrying a wierd satan’s masks is found. Hyperlinks to a neighborhood legend intrigue detective Alice Nerval (Frégé). In a bid to unravel the case, Alice groups up together with her father-in-law Adrien (Darroussin), a disgraced gendarme for whom that is his final probability to show himself.” Murders in Millau is written by Matthieu Savignac and directed by Jean-Marc Brondolo. Government producer for Pernel is Samuel Kissous. France Télévisions Distribution is dealing with gross sales.
