U.K. producer Nicola Shindler received on Tuesday the third Women in Series Award at Series Mania, Europe biggest TV festival. Few awards seem such just reward. From serving as a script editor on “Cracker” (1993), Jimmy McGovern’s breakout, to producing his “Hillsborough” (1995) and executive producing “Queer as Folk” (1999)…
Guy Bisson
They’ve come, they’re seeing, but will they conquered? From Tuesday through Friday, preceded by a BBC Studios Showcase, the biggest established U.K.-based distributors, plus a growing brace of overseas outfits France’s Studiocanal, About Premium Content and Newen Connect, for instance, will unveil some of their boldest new swings for 2023…
Crime shows look for a new angle, argued Berlinale Series participants on Monday. There is no shortage of new offerings, from Berlinale Market Selects’ “Two Sides of the Abyss,” Serbia’s “The Fall” or South Africa’s “Donkerbos,” created by Nico Scheepers, to China’s melancholic, decades-spanning “Why Try to Change Me Now,”…
Total spend on content will “flatten and slightly decline” this year. This tendency might continue for “at least” the next couple of years, according to Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson, a speaker at Monday’s opening panel of the Berlinale Series Market, which runs through Feb. 22. “We are entering a phase of…