NATPE Spotlight: Lionsgate

MIAMI: One of the biggest breakout hits of the U.S. fall season in 2012 was Nashville, starring Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere, which is being offered to the international market by Lionsgate.

“A true prime-time drama, Nashville centers around the careers, politics and love interests of three iconic women in the music industry,” says Peter Iacono, the company’s managing director for international television.

Then there is Anger Management, an FX original comedy in which Charlie Sheen portrays an unconventional anger-management therapist who is also trying to sort out his own issues. Ninety additional episodes of Anger Management were picked up following the successful run of the first ten in 2012. Lionsgate is also presenting Orange is the New Black, which is scheduled to premiere on Netflix in the spring. The show, based on the book of the same name, takes place in a minimum-security prison in New York.