‘WHITSTABLE PEARL’GREENLIT for SEASON 3 at AMC’s ACORN
Kerry Godliman returns at Pearl Nolan: building her private detective business, finding herself involved in more diverse investigations, including reopening an infamous local cold case and the death of a famous food critic. She’s aided and abetted by her outspoken, feisty mum Dolly and still going strong with boyfriend Tom, but it’s navigating her complex relationship with DCI Mike McGuire that still proves Pearl’s most challenging case
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PARAMOUNT+ & BUCCANEER TO ADAPT ‘THE CROW GIRL’
The 6 x 60-minute psychological thriller begins with the discovery of a teenage boy’s body discarded in plain sight. Determined to find who is responsible, DCI Jeanette Kilburn (Eve Myles) joins forces with psychotherapist Sophia Craven (Katherine Kelly) to hunt the killer despite opposition from her superiors including confidant DI Lou Stanley (Dougray Scott).
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First look: PARAMOUNT+ SERIES ‘The DOLL FACTORY’
Based on Elizabeth Macneal's novel of the same name, this Paramount+ period thriller focuses on three sets of characters whose lives become intertwined as London's Great Exhibition of 1851 looms.
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UKTV AND BBC STUDIOS ACQUIRE WHITSTABLE PEARL SERIES 1 and 2
Whitstable Pearl will air on free-to-view channel DRAMA and UKTV Play.
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FIVE KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE LA SCREENINGS
Buccaneer co-CEO Richard Tulk-Hart writes exclusively for C21 Media about the growing trends from the 2023 LA Screenings.
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First look: Samantha Morton in ‘The Burning Girls’
Samantha Morton stars as Reverend Jack Brooks and Ruby Stokes as Jack’s 15-year-old daughter Flo in the series, coming to Paramount+ in the UK, Canada, Australia, Latin America, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and South Korea later this year.
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‘SO LONG MARIANNE’: Alex Wolff To Play Leonard Cohen As Crave Boards NRK Drama Series
Alex Wolff (The Line, Hereditary, A Quiet Place: Day One) has been cast as legendary singer Leonard Cohen in So Long, Marianne, the NRK drama series we first revealed last year.
Thea Sofie Loch Næss (The Last Kingdom, Delete Me, A Storm For Christmas) will play Canadian musician Cohen’s muse Marianne Ihlen. Anna Torv (The Newsreader, The Last of Us, Mindhunter) has also been cast Charmian Clift and Noah Taylor (Preacher, Peaky Blinders, Game of Thrones) is George Johnston.
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Buccaneer re-teams with Hans Rosenfeldt to adapt CJ Tudor’s ‘The Chalk Man’
The Bridge and Marcella creator Rosenfeldt has boarded as screenwriter, marking the second time he has worked with Buccaneer on a CJ Tudor novel, following his adaptation of The Burning Girls, currently being produced by the company for Paramount+.
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BUCCANEER HEADS TO “UK CONNECT” ON AUSTRALIAN GOLD COAST
The BFI and Screen Producers Australia (SPA) have announced a new intitative and Australian market first between Screen Forever and the BFI.
Co-CEO Richard Tulk-Hart has been selected as one of 10 UK producers to attend the UK-Australia co-production market UK Connect 3-5 May 2023.
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HEATHERS MUSICAL DUO TO ADAPT DARK LORD FOR THE STAGE
Children’s book “Dark Lord: The Teenage Years” is getting a stage adaptation from Kevin Murphy (pictured above) and Laurence O’Keefe, the creators of “Heathers the Musical.”
The stage musical adaptation will be produced by Buccaneer (“The Doll Factory”) and Halfire Entertainment (“Alias Grace”), who have acquired the rights to the book, which is written by Jamie Thomson.
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PARAMOUNT+ UNVEILS CAST FOR NEW THRILLER “DOLL FACTORY” FROM BUCCANEER
Leading the cast is Esmé Creed-Miles (“Hanna”) as Iris, Éanna Hardwicke (“Normal People”) as Silas, Mirren Mack (“The Witcher: Blood Origin”) as Rose, and George Webster (“Wedding Season”) as Louis.
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C.J. Tudor’s Novel ‘The Drift’ Adapted For TV Through Buccaneer Media & Halcyon Studios
The Drift, which Penguin Random House imprints Penguin Michael Joseph in the UK and Ballantine in the U.S. are publishing in January 2023, tells the story of three groups of frightened teens who find themselves thrown together in a frozen post-apocalyptic world. One group is involved in a coach crash, another wakes suspended across a ravine in a broken-down cable and the third hunks down in an isolated sky chalet, and stalking all three is an even greater danger.
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DOUGRAY SCOTT WINS INTERNATIONAL EMMY FOR IRVINE WELSH’S “CRIME”
Dougray Scott accepted the Emmy for best Performance by an Actor for his role as detective Ray Lennox in Irvine Welsh’s Crime, from Buccaneer / Off Grid Film & TV.
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Paramount+ Orders ‘The Doll Factory’; Australia’s SBS And New Zealand’s TVNZ Board Historical Thriller
The UK wing of the streamer has ordered an adaptation of the Sunday Times bestselling novel, a dark thriller story of obsession centred around a doll painter and her twin sister.
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SAMANTHA MORTON TO LEAD PARAMOUNT+ THRILLER “THE BURNING GIRLS”
Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) is to lead Paramount+’s The Burning Girls alongside Bridgerton star Ruby Stokes, Deadline can reveal.
The series from Marcella producer Buccaneer Media, which is adapted from a C.J. Tudor novel, has entered production and follows a village haunted by a dark and turbulent history.
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Acclaimed Scottish Scribe Jenni Fagan Signs Development Deal With ‘Marcella’ Producer Buccaneer To Adapt Two Novels
Buccaneer Scotland, a division of ITV’s Marcella producer Buccaneer Media, has taken options on Fagan’s The Panopticon and Luckenbooth, and she will adapt both for TV.
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Leonard Cohen And Muse Marianne Ihlen Subject Of New Drama Series From ‘Marcella’ Outfit, ‘Lilyhammer’ Scribe, Canada’s Connect3 & Norway’s NRK
The 8×45 minutes series is billed by producers as an “intimate” story of “two equally lonely people falling in love in a period of their life when they are still trying to figure out who they are”.
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ITV orders return of Irvine Welsh's Crime for ITVX
ITV has commissioned a second series of Irvine Welsh’s Crime, for ITVX, starring Dougray Scott Dougray Scott will return as troubled detective, Ray Lennox.
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BUCCANEER & DOUGRAY SCOTT LAUNCH BUCCANEER SCOTLAND
Buccaneer Scotland will be based in Glasgow and its mission is to “promote Scottish voices and culture and bring original stories from the country’s best talent to a global audience.”
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TRAINSPOTTING SPIN-OFF “BEGBIE” IN DEVELOPMENT WITH ROBERT CARLYLE
More than 25 years on from his star turn in the Danny Boyle film, Carlyle will exec produce and feature as a reformed Begbie in the six-parter, which is being developed by Buccaneer Media.
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Scandi nets fish out Whitstable Pearl
SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway, YLE in Finland and TV2 in Denmark have all acquired the series, which was produced by the UK’s Buccaneer Media for Acorn TV, the AMC SVoD service that showcases UK content in the US.
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‘The Bridge’ & ‘Marcella’ Creator Hans Rosenfeldt Adapting CJ Tudor’s ‘The Burning Girls’ For Buccaneer Media
Rosenfeldt will work with Marcella producer Buccaneer Media to adapt the book after the production company secured the rights in a competitive situation. Tudor’s story became a Sunday Times bestseller after it was published in January.
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SMOOTH SAILING: BUCCANEER INTERVIEW WITH DRAMA QUARTERLY
Buccaneer Media joint CEOs Tony Wood and Richard Tulk-Hart tell DQ about the creative ethos behind the Marcella producer, with contributions from writers Irvine Welsh, Julie Wassmer and Hans Rosenfeldt.
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‘MARCELLA’ NOMINATED FOR c21 2020 INTERNATIONAL DRAMA AWARDS
Marcella nominated for Best Returning Drama Series alongside Babylon Berlin, Deutschland 89, My Brilliant Friend, Ozark and The Crown.
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‘The Widow’ & ‘The Red Line’ Actor Howard Charles To Co-Lead Acorn TV’s ‘Whitstable Pearl’
Howard Charles, star of Amazon’s The Widow and CBS’s The Red Line, has been cast as the co-lead in Acorn TV’s British-made crime drama Whitstable Pearl. Charles will star alongside After Life actress Kerry Godliman in the six-part Buccaneer Media adaptation of Julie Wassmer’s The Whitstable Pearl Mystery novels.
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‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ Writer Tom MacRae, Buccaneer Media Join Nevision’s ‘Beetle Boy’ Adaptation
Tom MacRae, the creator of the Everybody’s Talking About Jamie musical and upcoming feature, and Marcella producer Buccaneer Media have joined Nevision’s adaptation of MG Leonard’s Beetle Boy children’s books.
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‘After Life’ Star Kerry Godliman To Headline Acorn TV Thriller ‘Whitstable Pearl’ From ‘Marcella’ Producer
Acorn TV’s push into originals is continuing at pace after the AMC Networks streamer commissioned Buccaneer Media, the producer behind ITV/Netflix’s Anna Friel hit Marcella, to adapt Julie Wassmer’s The Whitstable Pearl Mystery novels into a series.
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PODCASTS OF THE WEEK - A SHOCKING SCANDAL AT THE HEART OF THE US MILITARY
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Michael Epstein reveals the story of his 15-year investigation into the Haditha massacre in this hard-hitting podcast.
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FRANCE’S TF1 TO REMAKE CINEFLIX DRAMA ‘MARCELLA’ as ‘REBECCA’
The eight-part Rebecca will star Anne Marivin as the titular detective, who returns to work six years after abandoning the hunt for a serial killer and quitting the police force.
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‘Marcella’: Anna Friel Drama To Be Adapted By France’s TF1
TF1 is going to make a French version of Marcella, the ITV drama starring Anna Friel and written by Hans Rosenfeldt. The show will be titled Rebecca and produced by Elephant. The deal to adapt the show was struck by Cineflix Rights, which will also distribute Rebecca internationally.
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BRITBOX PREPS THREE NOVEL ADAPTATIONS
Trainspotting creator Irvine Welsh is adapting a drama for BritBox based on his novel Crime, alongside long-standing screenwriting partner Dean Cavanagh (Wedding Belles). James Strong will direct. Dougray Scott will star and produce.
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BRITBOX’s FIRST SLATE OF ORIGINAL SHOWS INCLUDES IRVINE WELSH ADAPTATION “CRIME”
Crime, adapted by Welsh from his own novel, is the first time his work has been transferred to the small screen. Dougray Scott will star as the troubled detective inspector Ray Lennox, investigating the disappearance of a schoolgirl.
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BRITBOX ORDERS NEW IRVINE WELSH SERIES “CRIME”
Irvine Welsh adapts his first TV drama Crime, one of four original commissions by Britbox UK.
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HBO MAX DEVELOPING DYSTOPIAN THRILLER ‘IN MEMORIAM’ WITH ‘MR ROBOT’ DIRECTOR NIELS ARDEN OPLEV, PLAYWRIGHT CHARLEY MILES, PARTICIPANT & BUCCANEER
Imagine a world where humans lose the capacity to store long term recollections and instead are issued a government memory chip. This is the world of In Memoriam, a new drama in development with HBO Max.
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NBC UNiversal international teams with ‘marcella’ producer buccaneer on crime drama series ‘moths’
NBCUniversal International Studios is teaming up with Marcella producer Buccaneer Media and Danish scribe Ingeborg Topsoe
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MARCELLA COMING BACK FOR NETFLIX AND ITV
Anna Friel will return for a third season of “Marcella” on Netflix and ITV, after a new season of the show got the green light.
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BUCCANEER media adapts the DOLL FACTORY
Marcella producer secures TV rights to Elizabeth Macneal’s hotly-tipped Victorian era debut novel
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BUCCANEER SAILS OFF WITH DOLL FACTORY
UK-based producer Buccaneer Media has secured the TV rights to a forthcoming novel from Scottish author Elizabeth Macneal.
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MARCELLA PRODUCER LANDS TV RIGHTS TO HOT NOVEL 'THE DOLL FACTORY'
The team behind Netflix and ITV hit “Marcella” have scooped the TV rights to “The Doll Factory,” an eagerly anticipated thriller set in 1850s London. Buccaneer Media will adapt Elizabeth Macneal’s novel for TV, with the drama producer’s founder, Tony Wood, and development executive Anna Burns exec producing.
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CINEFLIX HIRES EX-NEWEN EXEC FOR COPROS
Cineflix Media has appointed ex-Newen exec Julien Leroux to the new position of SVP for global scripted co-productions.
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HOUSE TWO: REVIEW
It proffers an ambiguous portrait of men attempting to do honorable work in a fundamentally dishonorable war.
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HADITHA MASSACRE
A New Film Reexamines The Haditha Massacre With Troubling Conclusions For The Corps.
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BRAVING THE STORM
Marcella returns for a second season with the creative team behind the ITV drama promising darker and more challenging times ahead for the eponymous detective.
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Anna Friel celebrates International Emmy Award win for Marcella
Friel triumphed for playing Marcella Backland, the former detective who returns to the police force to help solve an old serial killing case while also trying to save her marriage.
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'THE REYKJAVIK CONFESSIONS': BUCCANEER MEDIA, BALT KORMAKUR'S RVK STUDIOS PLOT TRUE CRIME DRAMA
Marcella producer Buccaneer Media and Baltasar Kormakur’s RVK Studios have pacted to co-produce The Reykjavik Confessions. An English-language dramatization of one of Iceland’s most mysterious murder investigations, it has John Brownlow (The Miniaturist, Fleming) attached to write.
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tv series on icelandic disappearance case
A deal has been reached between RVK Studios and Buccaneer Media in the UK for the production of a television drama series about the so-called Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case.
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BUCCANEER, RVK RETELL ICELAND MYSTERY
UK producer Buccaneer Media has signed an agreement with TV and film director Baltasar Kormákur and his production company RVK Studios (Trapped) to create an English-language drama.
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FINALISTS NAMED IN C21 DRAMA AWARDS
The finalists have been announced in the C21 International Drama Awards, which are voted for by the world’s leading scripted commissioners and buyers.
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IRVINE WELSH ADAPTING BEST SELLING NOVEL FOR TELEVISION
Story of Edinburgh detective will be first book by the Scottish writer to be made into a TV drama
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BUCCANEER TO ADAPT IRVINE WELSH'S 'CRIME'
Scottish writer Irvine Welsh is to return to TV for the first time in almost a decade with Buccaneer Media's adaptation of his thriller Crime.
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BUCCANEER TO ADAPT TREMAIN NOVELS
UK-based Marcella producer Buccaneer Media has picked up rights to adapt two Rose Tremain novels for the small screen.
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MARCELLA SERIES 2 CONFIRMED BY ITV & NETFLIX
On August 26th, it was announced that ITV has picked up Marcella for a second series.
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CRIME SERIES 'MARCELLA' RETURNS TO ITV & NETFLIX FOR 2ND SEASON
ITV and Netflix crime series Marcella has been picked up for a second season.
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NEW AND HOT ON NETFLIX - MARCELLA THE MAVERICK CRIME DRAMA
Swedish writer Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of the classic Scandinavian drama The Bridge, has made a murder mystery for British TV, and it’s very good.
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WOMEN RE-ENERGISE CRIME DRAMA
In honour of ITV’s Brit noir series Marcella, DQ looks at some of the women detectives who have helped reinvigorate a genre that used to be the preserve of cantankerous middle-aged men.
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LONDON CALLING
The Bridge creator Hans Rosenfeldt brings Scandi style to the streets of London
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Buccaneer HIRES MARCELLA CO-CREATOR
Buccaneer Media has appointed a co-creator of ITV crime drama Marcella as executive producer, development.
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Buccaneer's global ambition
Marcella indie sets sights on creating English-language projects with world’s best writers
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NETFLIX TO AIR 'THE BRIDGE' CREATOR'S MARCELLA WORLDWIDE
Streaming service buys right to Hans Rosenfeldt’s new thriller, which stars Anna Friel and Downton Abbey’s Laura Carmichael, from ITV
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MIPTV: Netflix takes itv drama 'marcella' from 'the bridge' creator
Hans Rosenfeldt's thriller about a London police officer in the Murder Squad will bow globally on the US streaming service after an ITV debut in the UK
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NETFLIX ACQUIRES WORLDWIDE STREAMING RIGHTS TO ANNA FRIEL CRIME DRAMA
Netflix has acquired the exclusive worldwide streaming rights to “Marcella,” the crime drama series from “The Bridge” writer Hans Rosenfeldt, starring Anna Friel. The deal was struck by Cineflix Rights, which holds international distribution rights.
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NETFLIX TAKES WORLD RIGHTS TO 'MARCELLA'
Netlfix has acquired exclusive worldwide streaming rights to crime series 'Marcella'
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ANNA FRIEL FEELS THE CUT OF ITV'S STAB IN THE NORDIC DARK
The former Brookside star admits her role in The Bridge writer Hans Rosenfeldt’s grisly first UK drama, Marcella, took its toll
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BEHIND THE SCENES: MARCELLA, ITV
The Bridge creator Hans Rosenfeldt has brought Scandinavian rhythms to our ‘London noir’, says Nicola Larder
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marcella, itv: scandi tv writer hans rosenfeldt
The writer of The Bridge has a new British TV series debuting on ITV
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HOT PICKS: MARCELLA
The meteoric rise of dark Scandinavian dramas including The Killing and Borgen paved the way for Swedish writer Hans Rosenfeldt to create global smash The Bridge in 2013.
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BUCCANEER LANDS FIRST KIDS SERIES
Nickelodeon has commissioned Ride, a live-action series set in an elite equestrian boarding school.
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Nick, YTV order Anglo-Canadian copro
Nickelodeon and Canada’s YTV have co-ordered a live-action series from British and Canadian production companies.
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Cineflix Snags Buzzy British Noir Series
The distribution arm of Cineflix has won the rights to Marcella, the upcoming ‘British noir’ series from Buccaneer Media and written by Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge, pictured).
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ROBOT OVERLORDS MOVIE SPAWNS SPIN OFF
UK indie sci-fi movieRobot Overlords is getting a TV adaptation, with Cineflix-backed indie Buccaneer making the small-screen version.
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CINEFLIX PACKS MARCELLA'S BAGS
MIPCOM: Distributor Cineflix Rights has picked up the first English language drama from The Bridge writer Hans Rosenfeldt for international sales.
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'THE BRIDGE' CREATOR PENNING LONDON-SET SCANDINAVIAN NOIR 'MARCELLA' FOR ITV
ITV is coming fast with the original series commissions today, giving season orders to three new drama projects.
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FILMING FOR CRIME DRAMA MARCELLA TO BRING NORDIC NOIR TO LONDON
Television crime drama Marcella is set to film in London and will tell the story of a female Met detective working in the capital. Hans Rosenfeldt wrote Danish-Swedish co-production The Bridge and will bring a sense of “Scandinavian noir” to Marcella.
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ITV ORDERS CRIME DRAMA 'MARCELLA' FROM THE BRIDGE CREATOR HANS ROSENFELDT
ITV is teaming up with Broen (AKA The Bridge) creator Hans Rosenfeldt for Marcella, an eight episode contemporary crime drama series set in London which is being hailed as “Scandinavian noir on the streets of Britain”.
BUCCANEER POWERS ROBOT SPIN OFF
Buccaneer Media, the fledgling London-based prodco created by drama producer Tony Wood, is to create a spin-off TV series based on UK sci-fi adventure movie Robot Overlords.
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SCI-FI ADVENTURE MOVIE 'ROBOT OVERLORDS' SPAWNS TV SPIN-OFF SERIES
LONDON — Buccaneer Media, the London-based production company created by TV dramaproducer Tony Wood, has signed a deal to create a spinoff TV series based on the U.K. independent sci-fi adventure movie “Robot Overlords.”
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THE ONLY WAY IS UNSCRIPTED: TONY WOOD PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES
The Only Way Is Essex co-creator Tony Wood tells Michael Pickard how he tries to push the boundaries of drama, with or without a script.
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hans rosenfeldt to bring crime drama 'marcella' to itv
ITV has commissioned screenwriter and novelist, Hans Rosenfeldt to bring to life Marcella, an original, multi-stranded crime drama.
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itv orders london crime drama from 'the bridge' creator
Having seen his Scandinavian TV thriller The Bridge remade for the U.S. and the U.K., Hans Rosenfeldt is next set to take a new strand of Nordic noir to the streets of London.
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ITV ORDERS LONDON CRIME DRAMA FROM 'THE BRIDGE' CREATOR
Marcella will be the first series Rosenfeldt has created exclusively for a UK audience, with the Scandi-drama tone transported to central London.
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ITV announce 'marcella'
ITV today confirmed commission of Marcella, an original, multi-stranded crime drama written by internationally renowned screenwriter and novelist, Hans Rosenfeldt.
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itv hires 'the bridge' creator to make new nordic style uk tv drama
Swedish screenwriter Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of the acclaimed Scandinavian series The Bridge, has been signed by ITV to write an original crime drama set on the streets of contemporary London.
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ITV sets drama with nye, bridge writer
Hans Rosenfeldt script for Marcella has given the greenlight, with Cineflix Media-backed Buccaneer Media attached. It is being billed as “Scandinavian noir on the streets of Britain”.
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BRIDGE CREATOR IN UK DRAMA FIRST
Commercial broadcaster ITV has commissioned the creator of Scandinavian drama The Bridge to make his first series in the UK.
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A NOVEMBER SHOOT FOR NOIR DRAMA MARCELLA
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CREATOR OF THE BRIDGE WRITES DRAMA CREATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR UK AUDIENCES
The eight one-hour episodes, co-created with Nicola Larder of Lawless fame, have been commissioned by ITV.
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ROBOT OVERLORDS SERIES IN THE WORKS
Robot Overlords, the UK sci-fi feature starring Gillian Anderson and Ben Kingsley, is to get a spin-off TV series overseen by Tony Wood’s Buccaneer Media.
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BUCCANEER MEDIA TO CREATE ROBOT OVERLORDS TV SERIES
Buccaneer Media, the production company created by British drama producer Tony Wood has signed a deal to create a spin off TV series based upon the UK independent sci-fi movie Robot Overlords.
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ROBOT OVERLORDS WILL INVADE OUR SCREENS
Robot Overlords took over our cinema screens back in March and now, according to the film’s director Jon Wright, the malignant mechanicals have their beady laser eyes on our tellies. Yes, they’re targeting a small screen spin-off.