Granada Announces Offerings for ATF

HONG KONG, October 30: Granada International has unveiled a
diverse slate of programming, including drama, children’s entertainment,
factual and formats, for debut at the Asia Television Forum (ATF) in November.

From its drama catalogue, Granada will be offering Murdoch
Mysteries, a 13×48-minute Shaftesbury Films
production set in Toronto during the 1890s that follows a young detective who
solves a series of challenging murders using forensic techniques; My
Boy Jack, a 95-minute family drama about
duty, sacrifice and the horror of war starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry
Potter) and Kim Cattrall (Sex
& the City); Ballet Shoes, a 95-minute event drama for the BBC; and the fourth
season of Blue Murder, a
3×70-minute series which blends the grittiness of murder investigations with
the warmth and chaos of family life.

Granada’s children’s entertainment highlights include Boowa
& Kwala, a new 52×5-minute animated series
for preschool children following Boowa, a humorous big blue dog who loves
playing, laughing and singing, and Kwala, a small inquisitive yellow koala who
is funny, full of energy and a little bit cheeky; Supernormal, a 52×11-minute animated series for children and
adults that proves you don’t have to be super to be a hero; and a new season of
Funky Valley, a 16×5-minute
series featuring a dreamy cow, a busy ex-battery hen, a sensible pig, a
neurotic sheep and a bossy duck.

The company’s factual slate includes the second season of I
Shouldn’t Be Alive, a 10×47-minute series
that recounts astonishing tales of human endurance; Commando—On
The Front Line, which joins documentary
maker Chris Terrill (The Cruise)
as he follows a group of young commandos moving from civilian life to the front
line of war; Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures, a 7×47-minute series produced by Icon Films that visits some of the
most remote and inhospitable corners of the planet to find the ugliest,
slimiest and most bizarre animals in existence; and The Animal
Extractors, a 13×47-minute series filmed entirely in HD that
reveals what happens when wild animals invade our habitat.

Granada International will also launch new formats at the
ATF, including Baby Ballroom, which
follows fourteen pairs of child dancers as they battle it out on the dance
floor to become champion; Soapstar Superchef, which sees the nation’s favorite soap stars and
actors preparing two dishes of varying difficulty for three harsh food critics;
and Best Dish, which follows
would-be chefs as they compete to have their specialty crowned “Best Dish” by
the viewing public.

Other programs available from Granada at ATF include: Hell’s
Kitchen UK (15×1 hour); the second season
of American Princess (8×48
minutes); The Friday Night Project
(40×25 minutes); The May Lee Show (13×48
minutes); and the television movies Matters of Life and Dating starring Ricki Lake and She Drives Me
Crazy starring Melinda Clarke of The
O.C.

—By Ned Berke