{"id":4503,"date":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2012\/09\/28\/sierraaffinity-engine-entertainment-form-new-venture\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","slug":"sierraaffinity-engine-entertainment-form-new-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/sierraaffinity-engine-entertainment-form-new-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra\/Affinity &amp; Engine Entertainment Form New Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">LOS ANGELES: Sierra\/Affinity and Engine Entertainment have joined forces to launch Sierra\/Engine Television, a new production and distribution outfit that will make its debut at MIPCOM&nbsp;with projects such as <em>Crossbones<\/em>, which has a ten-episode order from NBC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">From Georgeville Television, <em>Crossbones<\/em> is produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald alongside <em>Luther<\/em> creator Neil Cross. The slate also includes <em>Hunters<\/em> (aka <em>Epidemic<\/em>), which has a 13-episode order from ABC. The show is from&nbsp;J. Michael Straczynski and Will Smith&rsquo;s Overbrook Entertainment. The new venture will assist in the development, production, financing and international sales of filmed entertainment and also distribution, by partnering with Georgeville Television. Sierra\/Engine will produce and distribute its own content as well as represent third-party titles.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Nick Meyer, the CEO of Sierra\/Affinity, stated: &ldquo;Chris&rsquo;s experience in studio television distribution and in the independent financing and packaging of programming is a perfect fit for our expansion into television.  Partnering with Chris and Engine accelerates our movement into this space and we are looking to continue to work with great creative partners in television as we have done in film.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Chris Philip, the CEO&nbsp;of Engine, added: &ldquo;Nick and Marc have created something special in filmed entertainment, and with their financial strength, and appetite for TV, we are ready to offer our global clients a raft of new high quality programming and taking three new U.S. network series to MIPCOM is an outstanding way to launch.&quot;<\/span><\/span><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Sierra\/Affinity and Engine Entertainment have joined forces to launch Sierra\/Engine Television, a new production and distribution outfit that will make its debut at MIPCOM&nbsp;with projects such as Crossbones, which has a ten-episode order from NBC. From Georgeville Television, Crossbones is produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald alongside Luther creator Neil Cross. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sierra\/Affinity &amp; Engine Entertainment Form New Venture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sierra\/Affinity &amp; Engine Entertainment Form New Venture . 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