{"id":2004,"date":"2019-11-18T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/tac-studios-presents-new-scripted-factual-slate\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T23:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:46:48","slug":"tac-studios-presents-new-scripted-factual-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/tac-studios-presents-new-scripted-factual-slate\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC Studios Presents New Scripted &amp; Factual Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAC Studios, the production arm of U.S.-based The Africa Channel, is showcasing new programs at DISCOP Johannesburg, including the single-camera comedy <em>Asylum<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Asylum<\/em> is a scripted project co-developed with <em>It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em> producer Conor Galvin. The workplace comedy series follows the lives of the support staff in a foreign embassy in South Africa.\u00a0<em>Move On<\/em>, another scripted co-development series, was produced alongside the award-winning writer-producer duo of Matt and Jordan Toronto. The comedy\u00a0series is about a frantic romantic on a desperate quest to silence her late husband\u2019s ghost, who barges in on every date with a consoling message for her potential suitors.\u00a0A\u00a0co-production with Currency MEDIA in Kenya, the drama series\u00a0<em>The Yard<\/em> is set in the world of Nairobi&#8217;s hip-hop scene.<\/p>\n<p>TAC Studios\u2019 brand-new unscripted finished series <em>My Design Rules<\/em>, a home-design competition series, and <em>May\u2019s Kitchen<\/em>, an original cooking series filmed in Egypt, were created with a global aesthetic for audiences both across Africa as well as for North American and U.K. pay TV. There&#8217;s also the social-impact reality series <em>The Bank<\/em>, created by Matt Luetwyler, Rebecca and Doug Henning (Bravo\u2019s <em>Below Deck<\/em>), which sees philanthropically motivated bankers search the furthest reaches of the world to grant micro loans to small businesses with large community impact.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Gabriel, Johannesburg-based head of creative and production for TAC Studios, said: \u201cThe appetite for African content continues to increase in large part due to the advent of global streaming\/OTT platforms. Our productions seek to meet that demand by creating content that is local and authentic yet produced to an aesthetic and quality that meets global standards. This slate of finished productions demonstrates our continued commitment to nurture talent and build capabilities across the continent. Our development efforts also seek to connect African stories and storytellers with experienced creators who have global television experience as we begin taking African content to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAC Studios, the production arm of U.S.-based The Africa Channel, is showcasing new programs at DISCOP Johannesburg, including the single-camera comedy Asylum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":2005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[456,453,457,458,459,243,169],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-asylum","tag-discop-johannesburg-2019","tag-mays-kitchen","tag-move-on","tag-my-design-rules","tag-tac-studios","tag-the-africa-channel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TAC Studios Presents New Scripted &amp; 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