CABLEready Lands First Original Series Order

NORWALK: CABLEready Productions has been given the greenlight for its first original series, Intersections, from SPEED Channel.

The series focuses on the stories of two people on two very different missions, supported by two very different machines. The show has been given a 13-episode order following the success of the recent pilot for SPEED Channel. Intersections is produced in association with Bosch Media and Blue Chip Films. CABLEready will handle the international distribution for the series and will launch the property at MIPDoc.

Gary Lico, the president and CEO of CABLEready, said, “The SPEED Channel pickup of the Intersections series is another benchmark moment for our company. With our longtime involvement in the distribution of cable programming on the CABLEready side and our analysis of cable programming performance on the CableU side, it seems a natural progression that we should also be active in the arena of producing cable originals.” He added, “We are pleased to be partnered with Bosch Media out of Minneapolis and Blue Chip Films out of Norwalk, on our first original production!”

“No matter how technologically advanced any man-made machine may be, its potential is both defined and limited by the people that created it; the two are fundamentally linked,” added Robert Ecker, SPEED’s VP of programming and executive producer. “That’s what Intersections is really about—the complex relationship between state-of-the-art hardware and its flesh-and-blood counterparts. The science and engineering is fascinating, but it’s the stories of the people that risk their lives operating them that provide the heart of the series.”