L.A. Screenings Spotlight: Entertainment One Television

LOS ANGELES: The roots of organized crime are on display in the docudrama The Making of the Mob: New York, which Entertainment One (eOne) Television is bringing out to the L.A. Screenings.

The eight-parter chronicles the rise and fall of the world’s most notorious mobsters, including Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel. The thriller The Enfield Haunting, also a highlight for the L.A. Screenings, is inspired by real-life paranormal events. Among the returning series that eOne Television is promoting is the fish-out-of-water comedy Welcome to Sweden, which Carrie Stein, the company’s executive VP of global production, says “hits a particular funny bone.”

Further returning highlights include The Red Road, a dramatic thriller about two clashing communities; the global ratings hit The Walking Dead, with five seasons available; and Halt and Catch Fire, an AMC series set at the dawn of the Information Age. The natural-history series David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef explores the secrets of this vast underwater organism. The dramedy Hindsight, meanwhile, is filled with ’90s nostalgia. The eOne Television catalogue also features the event miniseries The Book of Negroes, which recounts the journey of a woman who survives hardship against all odds. Rounding out the slate is Turn: Washington’s Spies, a 10×1-hour AMC drama.

“We’re aligning our development strategy with the caliber of partners we want to be in business with,” says Stein.