Joanna Padovano Tong, Author at TVDRAMA

October 12, 2018 Top Stories

Jessica Biel On Board Facebook Watch Series Limetown

October 12, 2018

Facebook Watch has given a 10-episode order to Limetown, a new show starring and executive produced by Jessica Biel (The Sinner).

October 12, 2018 Top Stories

Hulu Orders New Scripted Show Based on Wu-Tang Clan

October 12, 2018

Hulu has placed a straight-to-series order for Wu-Tang: An American Saga, an upcoming drama inspired by the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

October 12, 2018 Top Stories

C4 Alum Simon Maxwell Sets Up Indie Production Outfit

October 12, 2018

Simon Maxwell, Channel 4's head of drama, is launching a new independent production company focused on premium scripted content for the U.K., U.S. and international markets.

October 12, 2018 Top Stories

Das Boot Lands in 100-Plus Territories

October 12, 2018

The new event series Das Boot, co-produced by Sonar Entertainment, Bavaria Fiction and Sky Deutschland, has been licensed in more than 100 territories around the globe.

August 28, 2018 Interviews, Top Stories

FremantleMedia North America’s Dante Di Loreto

August 28, 2018

The company's president of scripted entertainment discusses book-based drama series.

June 26, 2018 Top Stories

Aussie Drama Redfern Now Heads to France TV

June 26, 2018

ABC Commercial has licensed the first two installments of the Indigenous Australian drama series Redfern Now to French pubcaster France Télévisions for three years.

April 12, 2018 Top Stories

Lifeline Joins Channel 4’s Walter Presents Lineup

April 12, 2018

Atresmedia Television's Lifeline, a thriller produced by Globomedia for Antena 3, has been added to Channel 4's Walter Presents programming block.

April 12, 2018 Top Stories

Westworld Fan Show West:Word Set for the U.K.

April 12, 2018

Sky is gearing up to premiere West:Word, a Westworld fan show slated to follow each episode of the series' upcoming second season.

April 11, 2018 Top Stories

AMC Gives Go-Ahead to Book-Based Horror Series

April 11, 2018

AMC has greenlit NOS4A2, a new original horror series inspired by the bestselling novel of the same name penned by Joe Hill.

April 11, 2018 Top Stories

Banijay Rights to Take Hit Drama Vidago Palace Global

April 11, 2018

Banijay Rights has snapped up the worldwide distribution rights for Vidago Palace, a period drama co-production between RTP in Portugal and TVG in Spain.

Joanna Padovano Tong

Jessica Biel On Board Facebook Watch Series Limetown

Hulu Orders New Scripted Show Based on Wu-Tang Clan

C4 Alum Simon Maxwell Sets Up Indie Production Outfit

Das Boot Lands in 100-Plus Territories

FremantleMedia North America’s Dante Di Loreto

Aussie Drama Redfern Now Heads to France TV

Lifeline Joins Channel 4’s Walter Presents Lineup

Westworld Fan Show West:Word Set for the U.K.

AMC Gives Go-Ahead to Book-Based Horror Series

Banijay Rights to Take Hit Drama Vidago Palace Global

Lux Vide Producing New Adaptation of Sandokan

Fallout Renewed for Second Season

The Gray House to Open Monte-Carlo Television Festival

The Witcher to Wrap with Season Five on Netflix

For All Mankind Lands Renewal & Spin-Off

Screen Australia & Dynamic Television Set Scripted Initiative