Profiles

Roxanne Barcelona, the VP of GMA Worldwide, talks to TV Drama about the demand for Filipino fantasy drama in the international market.

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Positioned as the home of premium original British drama, BBC First is among the newest channels in the BBC Worldwide portfolio. The network was born out of the company’s solid foundation in British drama, as well as the popularity of drama programming in general at the moment, according to George ...

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On Sunday night, Mad Men fans—3.3 million of them, according to Nielsen figures—tuned in to AMC to see how Matthew Weiner would wrap up the stories of characters that they had come to love (or hate) over the course of seven seasons. The finale may have been polarizing, but the ...

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TV Drama Weekly takes a look at the shows and trends that made headlines in the scripted business at MIPTV last week. Amid a wave of zombies, vampires and superheroes, dramatic stories inspired by real life were a big theme at MIPTV. ITV Studios Global Entertainment used the market to ...

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When Endemol decided to expand its business into the booming Turkish TV market, it initially did so with an eye toward purely unscripted productions. However, Endemol Turkey quickly took notice of the world’s fast-developing love affair with Turkish drama series and made the move into scripted production with Broken Pieces ...

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TV Drama Weekly’s Anna Carugati recently visited the set of FX’s critically acclaimed original series The Americans. She takes us behind the scenes of the 1980s-set espionage drama with interviews with co-creator Joe Weisberg and cast members Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell and Noah Emmerich. The period drama The Americans takes ...

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There were a lot of takeaways from last week’s biggest-ever MIPCOM, but perhaps the clearest is that the drama business is booming everywhere. You could see it in the talent being ushered up and down the Croisette (Donald Sutherland, Matt Dillon, Dominic Monaghan, Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Dormer, Brendan Coyle, ...

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The zombies aren’t the only terrifying things about The Walking Dead: the ratings are, too, if you happen to be competing with the AMC and FOX International Channels (FIC) original. Heading into its fifth season, this series about a group of survivors coping with a zombie apocalypse is the most-watched ...

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The aim of the Series Mania European Co-Production Forum is to contribute to a more competitive market for TV drama series in Europe by encouraging collaborations between producers, distributors, TV broadcasters, TV funders and commissioners. Organized by the Forum des Images, located in the heart of Paris, and supported by ...

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When Global Agency was founded almost eight years ago, the company initially focused only on formats. After about two years in the international content business, the Istanbul-based outfit began to distribute Turkish dramas as well. The first project to join the Global Agency catalogue was 1001 Nights, which went on ...

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