Prime Video continues to expand its game show output, announcing two more new shows on Tuesday at Amazon’s upfronts presentation: “Buy It Now,” hosted by Jb Smoove (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) and the holiday-themed event “Wish List Games” hosted by Nick Cannon (“The Masked Singer”). Both feature tie ins to Amazon’s shopping portals.
“Buy It Now” and “Wish List Games” comes on top of “Pop Culture Jeopardy!” (also announced on Tuesday) and the upcoming “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” hosted by Travis Kelce. Prime Video also has “Beast Games,” “The Goat” (from Elon Gale and Lee Eisenberg) and “The 1% Club.”
“With the chance to win cash, prizes, or simply notoriety, competition and game series are the ultimate
wish fulfillment,” says Lauren Anderson, head of AVOD originals unscripted and targeted programming,
Amazon MGM Studios. “We are excited to expand our slate of classic, nostalgic titles and look forward...
“Buy It Now” and “Wish List Games” comes on top of “Pop Culture Jeopardy!” (also announced on Tuesday) and the upcoming “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” hosted by Travis Kelce. Prime Video also has “Beast Games,” “The Goat” (from Elon Gale and Lee Eisenberg) and “The 1% Club.”
“With the chance to win cash, prizes, or simply notoriety, competition and game series are the ultimate
wish fulfillment,” says Lauren Anderson, head of AVOD originals unscripted and targeted programming,
Amazon MGM Studios. “We are excited to expand our slate of classic, nostalgic titles and look forward...
- 5/14/2024
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon is stacking up its unscripted orders.
The streaming service has ordered two new nonscripted series; it has ordered a U.S. version of British format Buy It Now hosted by Curb Your Enthusiasm star Jb Smoove and Nick Cannon is hosting holiday event Wish List Games.
Elsewhere, it has added names to Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?, hosted by Travis Kelce.
This comes after the streamer ordered Pop Culture Jeopardy!, a spinoff of the iconic gameshow.
Amazon has largely struggled in the unscripted world and has had few breakouts so is evidently trying to bolster its slate.
Buy It Now comes from The Traitors producer Studio Lambert and is based on a Channel 4 daytime format that seasoned and budding entrepreneurs try to win a place in the Buy It Now store featured on both Amazon.com and within the Prime app.
The entrepreneurs must convince a live studio...
The streaming service has ordered two new nonscripted series; it has ordered a U.S. version of British format Buy It Now hosted by Curb Your Enthusiasm star Jb Smoove and Nick Cannon is hosting holiday event Wish List Games.
Elsewhere, it has added names to Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?, hosted by Travis Kelce.
This comes after the streamer ordered Pop Culture Jeopardy!, a spinoff of the iconic gameshow.
Amazon has largely struggled in the unscripted world and has had few breakouts so is evidently trying to bolster its slate.
Buy It Now comes from The Traitors producer Studio Lambert and is based on a Channel 4 daytime format that seasoned and budding entrepreneurs try to win a place in the Buy It Now store featured on both Amazon.com and within the Prime app.
The entrepreneurs must convince a live studio...
- 5/14/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video has officially ordered a 20-episode season of “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” from MGM Alternative, the streamer announced Tuesday. As previously reported by Variety, the “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” spinoff will be hosted by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
“I grew up loving game shows, and I’m excited to be following in the footsteps of so many TV icons by hosting my very first one with ‘Are you Smarter than a Celebrity?’,” Kelce said. “The original show is a great success, so to be bringing a new format with everyone’s favorite celebrities to the screen, will definitely be entertaining. I’m just happy to be on the hosting side of the equation here and excited to see how these famous faces keep up.”
“Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” sees contestants attempt to answer 11 grade-school-level questions with the help...
“I grew up loving game shows, and I’m excited to be following in the footsteps of so many TV icons by hosting my very first one with ‘Are you Smarter than a Celebrity?’,” Kelce said. “The original show is a great success, so to be bringing a new format with everyone’s favorite celebrities to the screen, will definitely be entertaining. I’m just happy to be on the hosting side of the equation here and excited to see how these famous faces keep up.”
“Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” sees contestants attempt to answer 11 grade-school-level questions with the help...
- 4/16/2024
- by Jack Dunn
- Variety Film + TV
The period drama, ‘Miss Scarlet and The Duke’ is set to return for a second series on UKTV’s dedicated crime drama channel Alibi.
Series two sees the return of Kate Phillips as the fearless female detective Eliza Scarlet, alongside Stuart Martin as her childhood friend and potential love interest, Inspector William ‘The Duke’ Wellington.
The first series was one of the top-rating shows on Alibi in 2020 and has reached over 1.57 million individuals since its launch.
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Based on the novel by Daniel Cole, it followed the first-ever female detective in Victorian London. After the death of her father (played by Downton Abbey’s Kevin Doyle), Eliza Scarlet (Phillips) was left penniless and determined to become a private detective to support herself. Unfortunately, detectives have always been men, but a family friend at Scotland Yard called The Duke (Martin) offers to help.
Series two sees the return of Kate Phillips as the fearless female detective Eliza Scarlet, alongside Stuart Martin as her childhood friend and potential love interest, Inspector William ‘The Duke’ Wellington.
The first series was one of the top-rating shows on Alibi in 2020 and has reached over 1.57 million individuals since its launch.
Also in news – Millie Bobby Brown & Henry Cavill to return for ‘Enola Holmes’ sequel
Based on the novel by Daniel Cole, it followed the first-ever female detective in Victorian London. After the death of her father (played by Downton Abbey’s Kevin Doyle), Eliza Scarlet (Phillips) was left penniless and determined to become a private detective to support herself. Unfortunately, detectives have always been men, but a family friend at Scotland Yard called The Duke (Martin) offers to help.
- 5/17/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Victorian London’s first-ever female detective will continue to crack cases after PBS Masterpiece renewed Miss Scarlet and The Duke for a second season.
However, A+E Networks International, which launched the series as its first global scripted co-production has exited the project.
The drama, which stars Kate Phillips in the titular role and Stuart Martin as her childhood friend and potential love interest Inspector William ‘The Duke’ Wellington, is coming back after 8M people tuned in to see the first season, which launched on the public broadcaster in January.
The series launched as part of Masterpiece’s 50th anniversary lineup with some 3.6M viewers streaming it digitally.
Created by Grantchester writer Rachael New, who also showruns, the six-episode series stars Phillips as Eliza Scarlet. When Eliza’s father dies, he leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza...
However, A+E Networks International, which launched the series as its first global scripted co-production has exited the project.
The drama, which stars Kate Phillips in the titular role and Stuart Martin as her childhood friend and potential love interest Inspector William ‘The Duke’ Wellington, is coming back after 8M people tuned in to see the first season, which launched on the public broadcaster in January.
The series launched as part of Masterpiece’s 50th anniversary lineup with some 3.6M viewers streaming it digitally.
Created by Grantchester writer Rachael New, who also showruns, the six-episode series stars Phillips as Eliza Scarlet. When Eliza’s father dies, he leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza...
- 3/29/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has commissioned a 10-part live-action children’s series from Wildseed Studios, the company behind Fullscreen scripted thriller PrankMe.
The Last Bus is billed as a sci-fi road trip adventure, which tells the story of a group of mismatched school kids who band together to face a fearsome new machine intelligence.
It is being written and created by Paul Neafcy, who was spotted by Wildseed after posting films on YouTube from his bedroom. Neafcy also worked with Wildseed on PrankMe.
Another YouTube creator, Drew Casson, will direct alongside Lawrence Gough and Steve Hughes, both of whom have helmed episodes of Doctor Who. Nour Wazzi is a fourth director.
The Last Bus will be filmed in Bristol and the South West of England. Pre-production starts imminently, with the shoot taking place over the fall.
“Although at the top level The Last Bus is a shamelessly entertaining sci-fi romp, at another level...
The Last Bus is billed as a sci-fi road trip adventure, which tells the story of a group of mismatched school kids who band together to face a fearsome new machine intelligence.
It is being written and created by Paul Neafcy, who was spotted by Wildseed after posting films on YouTube from his bedroom. Neafcy also worked with Wildseed on PrankMe.
Another YouTube creator, Drew Casson, will direct alongside Lawrence Gough and Steve Hughes, both of whom have helmed episodes of Doctor Who. Nour Wazzi is a fourth director.
The Last Bus will be filmed in Bristol and the South West of England. Pre-production starts imminently, with the shoot taking place over the fall.
“Although at the top level The Last Bus is a shamelessly entertaining sci-fi romp, at another level...
- 8/10/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, ABC announced the premiere date for “The Bachelor” Season 24, while Showtime set a date for Eddie Griffin’s new comedy special.
Casting
Freeform announced that it has cast the pilot for “Last Summer.“ Chiara Aurelia will star as Jeanette and Mika Abdalla will star as Kate in this “unconventional thriller” about abduction and popularity. When Abdalla’s Kate gets abducted in small town ’90s Texas, an outcast (Aurelia) becomes the most popular girl in town, only to later become the most despised person in America. The cast also includes Michael Landes as Jeanette’s father Greg; Froy Gutierrez as Jeanette’s secret crush Jamie; Harley Quinn Smith as the quirky outsider Mallory; Allius Barnes (“Unbelievable”) as Jeanette and Mallory’s best friend, Vince; Blake Lee as the kind teacher Martin; Nathaniel Ashton as Jamie’s best friend Ben; and Brooklyn Sudano as a bartender named Angela.
Casting
Freeform announced that it has cast the pilot for “Last Summer.“ Chiara Aurelia will star as Jeanette and Mika Abdalla will star as Kate in this “unconventional thriller” about abduction and popularity. When Abdalla’s Kate gets abducted in small town ’90s Texas, an outcast (Aurelia) becomes the most popular girl in town, only to later become the most despised person in America. The cast also includes Michael Landes as Jeanette’s father Greg; Froy Gutierrez as Jeanette’s secret crush Jamie; Harley Quinn Smith as the quirky outsider Mallory; Allius Barnes (“Unbelievable”) as Jeanette and Mallory’s best friend, Vince; Blake Lee as the kind teacher Martin; Nathaniel Ashton as Jamie’s best friend Ben; and Brooklyn Sudano as a bartender named Angela.
- 11/14/2019
- by Lorraine Wheat
- Variety Film + TV
Epix has handed a Season 2 renewal to Sex Life, its documentary series from MGM Unscripted & Alternative Television and Evolution Media.
The series premiered in the summer, and each of its eight episodes followed three different subjects on their sexual and intimate journeys. They ranged from exploring erotic dinner parties and visiting a millennial sex club to experimenting with Japanese bondage and learning the art of pole dancing to rediscovering sexual desire after suffering through a long illness.
Each of the eight hourlong episodes in Season 2 will follows sex-positive individuals, couples and groups as they embark on new physically gratifying and emotionally fulfilling sexual adventures. Production on the new season will begin immediately, Epix said.
“Working with cinematic storytellers to bring viewers the intimate and provocative activities from behind closed doors has broadened the range of exclusive programming MGM Television offers to audiences around the world,” said Barry Poznick,...
The series premiered in the summer, and each of its eight episodes followed three different subjects on their sexual and intimate journeys. They ranged from exploring erotic dinner parties and visiting a millennial sex club to experimenting with Japanese bondage and learning the art of pole dancing to rediscovering sexual desire after suffering through a long illness.
Each of the eight hourlong episodes in Season 2 will follows sex-positive individuals, couples and groups as they embark on new physically gratifying and emotionally fulfilling sexual adventures. Production on the new season will begin immediately, Epix said.
“Working with cinematic storytellers to bring viewers the intimate and provocative activities from behind closed doors has broadened the range of exclusive programming MGM Television offers to audiences around the world,” said Barry Poznick,...
- 11/13/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Rachel Zoe is returning to television.
The stylist and fashion designer is set to executive-produce a new fashion design competition show for MGM Television.
Per the studio, the untitled project will see undiscovered designers “work together to create original designs, bringing completely new and unique looks to the runway.” The winning designs will be made available online immediately following each episode.
Zoe will executive produce the show alongside MGM Television chairman Mark Burnett, Barry Poznick and format creators Sean Kelly and Steve Hughes of Shaggy Entertainment.
The news comes just days after MGM announced it had enlisted “Fast and Furious” star Tyrese Gibson for a celebrity car racing series. Like Gibson’s show, Zoe’s fashion design competition does not yet have a network attached.
“This is the show I have always wanted to make.
The stylist and fashion designer is set to executive-produce a new fashion design competition show for MGM Television.
Per the studio, the untitled project will see undiscovered designers “work together to create original designs, bringing completely new and unique looks to the runway.” The winning designs will be made available online immediately following each episode.
Zoe will executive produce the show alongside MGM Television chairman Mark Burnett, Barry Poznick and format creators Sean Kelly and Steve Hughes of Shaggy Entertainment.
The news comes just days after MGM announced it had enlisted “Fast and Furious” star Tyrese Gibson for a celebrity car racing series. Like Gibson’s show, Zoe’s fashion design competition does not yet have a network attached.
“This is the show I have always wanted to make.
- 3/14/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Rachel Zoe (The Rachel Zoe Project), Mark Burnett and MGM TV are teaming on an international fashion competition series aimed at undiscovered designers.
Throughout the series, contestants are challenged to create original designs with a new and unique look, and will compete for the opportunity to have their creations made available immediately following each episode.
The original format was created by Sean Kelly and Steve Hughes of Shaggy Entertainment. Burnett, Zoe, Barry Poznick will executive produce along with Kelly and Hughes.
“This is the show I have always wanted to make. The show will spotlight some of the most talented designers from around the world and I am thrilled to be able to highlight their work,” said Zoe. “I have the utmost respect for Mark Burnett and the team at MGM –– this is my dream partnership.”
Zoe starred for five seasons in her series The Rachel Zoe Project on Bravo,...
Throughout the series, contestants are challenged to create original designs with a new and unique look, and will compete for the opportunity to have their creations made available immediately following each episode.
The original format was created by Sean Kelly and Steve Hughes of Shaggy Entertainment. Burnett, Zoe, Barry Poznick will executive produce along with Kelly and Hughes.
“This is the show I have always wanted to make. The show will spotlight some of the most talented designers from around the world and I am thrilled to be able to highlight their work,” said Zoe. “I have the utmost respect for Mark Burnett and the team at MGM –– this is my dream partnership.”
Zoe starred for five seasons in her series The Rachel Zoe Project on Bravo,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
MGM Television has extended its overall deal with Sean Kelly and Steve Hughes and their Shaggy Entertainment through 2020. It renews the pact they inked in 2017. Since then they created and executive produced CBS’ competition series Tko: Total Knock Out with Kevin Hart and have set up projects at both Epix and Discovery.
The pair have worked together since both were at Fox TV Studios, then spent two years as a team under an overall deal at Wilshire Studios, where they sold over several projects and consulted at Lifetime, Syfy, USA, E!, TLC and Food Network. Their past credits include Minute to Win It, Big Brother, Biggest Loser, Wipeout, Red Neck Island, American Bible Challenge, Idiot Test and It Takes A Church.
“Sean and Steve are two incredible, creative and hardworking executives with a keen eye for what works in today’s market place and we look forward to a long future together,...
The pair have worked together since both were at Fox TV Studios, then spent two years as a team under an overall deal at Wilshire Studios, where they sold over several projects and consulted at Lifetime, Syfy, USA, E!, TLC and Food Network. Their past credits include Minute to Win It, Big Brother, Biggest Loser, Wipeout, Red Neck Island, American Bible Challenge, Idiot Test and It Takes A Church.
“Sean and Steve are two incredible, creative and hardworking executives with a keen eye for what works in today’s market place and we look forward to a long future together,...
- 2/11/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Louisa Mellor Jan 23, 2018
We chatted to director Steve Hughes about making Cbbc’s eerie anthology series Creeped Out and Doctor Who…
TV and film-making is an arduous, competitive business. Unless a project is particularly close to the hearts of those making it, it’s unlikely to survive the process. Talent and a good idea can get you part of the way, but it takes really, really loving that idea to drive it through to the end, attracting more talent and love along the way.
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Cbbc’s Creeped Out buzzes with love from the people who make it. A thirteen-part eerie anthology series inspired by Spielberg’s Amazing Stories, it tells emotionally resonant horror, sci-fi and fantasy-tinged tales that are suitable for kids and irresistible to adults.
We chatted to director Steve Hughes about making Cbbc’s eerie anthology series Creeped Out and Doctor Who…
TV and film-making is an arduous, competitive business. Unless a project is particularly close to the hearts of those making it, it’s unlikely to survive the process. Talent and a good idea can get you part of the way, but it takes really, really loving that idea to drive it through to the end, attracting more talent and love along the way.
See related Riverdale season 2 episode 10 review: The Blackboard Jungle Riverdale season 2 episode 9 review: Silent Night, Deadly Night Riverdale season 2 episode 8 review: House Of The Devil
Cbbc’s Creeped Out buzzes with love from the people who make it. A thirteen-part eerie anthology series inspired by Spielberg’s Amazing Stories, it tells emotionally resonant horror, sci-fi and fantasy-tinged tales that are suitable for kids and irresistible to adults.
- 1/22/2018
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Jan 23, 2018
Cbbc’s Creeped Out is a geek paradise for lovers of 80s sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Did you spot these movie references?
Contains mild spoilers for Creeped Out.
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“Nods to Spielberg, Zemeckis, Joe Dante, even John Carpenter…” Director Steve Hughes (Doctor Who, Wolfblood) is telling me about the first time he read a script for Cbbc anthology series Creeped Out. “I remember begging ‘you have to let me direct this – it’s my dream job!’”
The scripts, Hughes recalls, had a real flavour of Amazing Stories (“one of my favourite TV series from the 80s”) and “were clearly written by people who loved the same films as TV shows as I did.” Those people were Bede Blake and Robert Butler, movie nerds through and through.
Cbbc’s Creeped Out is a geek paradise for lovers of 80s sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Did you spot these movie references?
Contains mild spoilers for Creeped Out.
See related Riverdale season 2 episode 10 review: The Blackboard Jungle Riverdale season 2 episode 9 review: Silent Night, Deadly Night Riverdale season 2 episode 8 review: House Of The Devil
“Nods to Spielberg, Zemeckis, Joe Dante, even John Carpenter…” Director Steve Hughes (Doctor Who, Wolfblood) is telling me about the first time he read a script for Cbbc anthology series Creeped Out. “I remember begging ‘you have to let me direct this – it’s my dream job!’”
The scripts, Hughes recalls, had a real flavour of Amazing Stories (“one of my favourite TV series from the 80s”) and “were clearly written by people who loved the same films as TV shows as I did.” Those people were Bede Blake and Robert Butler, movie nerds through and through.
- 1/22/2018
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Oct 31, 2017
A chat with the creators of Creeped Out, an eerie new thirteen-part collection of stories destined to be loved by geeks of all ages…
“The family who lose their mouths in The Twilight Zone.”
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“Oh! The candy-striper vampire one in Are You Afraid Of The Dark? And the clown, The Ghastly Grinner!”
“The magician one in Amazing Stories. Definitely.”
“There’s one about a pool and this horrible, fleshy skeleton came out of it and grabbed these kids. Still now, if you Google it, it’s one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen, I can’t believe it was ever on telly.”
“The Never-Ending Story had something called The Nothing, that was really nothing, literally and figuratively. It stuck with me and freaked me out as a kid, the idea that things were disappearing and nothing was in its place.
A chat with the creators of Creeped Out, an eerie new thirteen-part collection of stories destined to be loved by geeks of all ages…
“The family who lose their mouths in The Twilight Zone.”
See related 26 new TV shows to watch in 2017
“Oh! The candy-striper vampire one in Are You Afraid Of The Dark? And the clown, The Ghastly Grinner!”
“The magician one in Amazing Stories. Definitely.”
“There’s one about a pool and this horrible, fleshy skeleton came out of it and grabbed these kids. Still now, if you Google it, it’s one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen, I can’t believe it was ever on telly.”
“The Never-Ending Story had something called The Nothing, that was really nothing, literally and figuratively. It stuck with me and freaked me out as a kid, the idea that things were disappearing and nothing was in its place.
- 10/26/2017
- Den of Geek
We answer more of your letters, with topics this time ranging from bad posters to Muppets to our inability to spell.
We've delved deep into our bulging post bag to look at some more of our readers' correspondence. As usual, here's a broad cross-section of your thoughts, suggestions and other stuff, ranging from classic Italian giallo movies, Muppets questions, and lots more.
If you want to send us a letter, a painting, or even a postcard while you're on holiday, our address is at the bottom of the page. We look forward to hearing from you. In the meantime, here's the latest selection of geek missives...
You Can't Speel!
Most people groan and roll their eyes when people talk about grammar and spelling but as I have to put up with the general mass bad grammar etc. that is Facebook and the internet en mass I expect better from pages such as yours.
We've delved deep into our bulging post bag to look at some more of our readers' correspondence. As usual, here's a broad cross-section of your thoughts, suggestions and other stuff, ranging from classic Italian giallo movies, Muppets questions, and lots more.
If you want to send us a letter, a painting, or even a postcard while you're on holiday, our address is at the bottom of the page. We look forward to hearing from you. In the meantime, here's the latest selection of geek missives...
You Can't Speel!
Most people groan and roll their eyes when people talk about grammar and spelling but as I have to put up with the general mass bad grammar etc. that is Facebook and the internet en mass I expect better from pages such as yours.
- 10/16/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
DC Comics
Comics, especially those outside of the fights n’ tights mainstream, are an efficient, direct, and aesthetically beautiful means of storytelling. While it costs millions for Hollywood’s Iron Man to blast a bad guy through a wall, Jack Kirby’s Iron Man could do the same for a cup of coffee and some art supplies. The reader does the rest of the heavy lifting, no effects budget required. (Unless you count allowance money spent on cases of nutmeg in the seventies. Bless you, Jim Starlin…)
Still, Hollywood has gotten better at adapting comics, and not just those from Marvel and DC. Movies like American Splendor and Ghost World have already proven that some stories are universal, even those that began as lowly, static images drawn by odd loners. If the source material is approached with respect, the comics on this list would make fine films and television shows…...
Comics, especially those outside of the fights n’ tights mainstream, are an efficient, direct, and aesthetically beautiful means of storytelling. While it costs millions for Hollywood’s Iron Man to blast a bad guy through a wall, Jack Kirby’s Iron Man could do the same for a cup of coffee and some art supplies. The reader does the rest of the heavy lifting, no effects budget required. (Unless you count allowance money spent on cases of nutmeg in the seventies. Bless you, Jim Starlin…)
Still, Hollywood has gotten better at adapting comics, and not just those from Marvel and DC. Movies like American Splendor and Ghost World have already proven that some stories are universal, even those that began as lowly, static images drawn by odd loners. If the source material is approached with respect, the comics on this list would make fine films and television shows…...
- 12/27/2013
- by Forrest Gabitsch
- Obsessed with Film
Directed by Richard Rose, and co-starring Lisa Berry, Hannah Moscovitch's This Is War plays at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre until Feb. 3. Tarragon's website provides the following synopsis for the stage production: It is 2008. Canadian Forces are holding Panjwaii, the most volatile region of Afghanistan, with very little support from Nato-isaf. Captain Stephen Hughes is always looking for the next threat, knowing it can come at any time from any direction. He just didn’t expect it would come from within. Berry (Combat Hospital, Nikita) plays the role of Master Corporal Tanya Young, and star alongside co-stars Ari Cohen, Sergio Dizio and Ian Lake.
- 1/10/2013
- by Emmanuel Akitobi
- ShadowAndAct
‘The Indian Cinema Century: Film Technology and the Contemporary’, an international conference celebrating the centenary year of Indian cinema will be organized by the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
The conference will be held from 10th to 12th January, 2013 at School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Entry is free for all.
The three day conference will look upon the evolution of cinema from its preliminary stages to what it is today. Some of the issues discussed will be the transition from silent to sound cinema, the relationship to Hollywood’s widespread presence before the Second World War, the transition to colour, and the transformations in film exhibition.
Participants from Europe, the United States, Calcutta, Bangalore and Hyderabad are expected to attend. Priya Jaikumar, Ranjani Mazumdar, Steve Hughes and Kaushik Bhaumik are some of the participating speakers.
Program for day one is given below. See...
The conference will be held from 10th to 12th January, 2013 at School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Entry is free for all.
The three day conference will look upon the evolution of cinema from its preliminary stages to what it is today. Some of the issues discussed will be the transition from silent to sound cinema, the relationship to Hollywood’s widespread presence before the Second World War, the transition to colour, and the transformations in film exhibition.
Participants from Europe, the United States, Calcutta, Bangalore and Hyderabad are expected to attend. Priya Jaikumar, Ranjani Mazumdar, Steve Hughes and Kaushik Bhaumik are some of the participating speakers.
Program for day one is given below. See...
- 1/10/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
ITV have commissioned a new 20 part drama series called True Crime. The series is being produced by production firm Newman Street which is owned by Fremantle Media UK. The mockumentary follows two police officers as they investigate a series of crimes that are loosely based on real events. Footage will include film taken by the supposed documentary makers as well as material captured on CCTV. True Crime is being written and produced by Steve Hughes (The Bill) and Darren Fairhurst (Shameless). Casting details have yet to be revealed but the show is set to air as part of ITV’s 2013 daytime line up.
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- 5/28/2012
- by Edited by K Kinsella
So The Doctor's on yet another goodbye mission. Since bidding adieu to Amy and Rory at the end of The God Complex, nearly 200 years have passed. Now The Doctor's apparently facing the end of his days – note the word, apparently – by now, every man, woman, child, cat, dog, guinea pig, hamster and fly realised that The Doctor wouldn't die – you can't have a successful, long-running show and then just axe it without warning. Not even a cut-ridden BBC can kill off that indomitable Time Lord for good.
But hey – any excuse for yet another whistle-stop tour of old friends. Presumably, in the future, The Doctor will take this to the next level. He'll go out and buy himself a musty old copy of the Doctor Who A-z Encyclopaedia by Jean-Marc Lofficier and visit every last character he's met during his many lives – yes, right down to the bumbling Louvre Guide...
But hey – any excuse for yet another whistle-stop tour of old friends. Presumably, in the future, The Doctor will take this to the next level. He'll go out and buy himself a musty old copy of the Doctor Who A-z Encyclopaedia by Jean-Marc Lofficier and visit every last character he's met during his many lives – yes, right down to the bumbling Louvre Guide...
- 1/13/2012
- Shadowlocked
Persistence Resistance 2011: Documentary Practices in India, a festival of documentary films will be held in London from November 1-8, 2011.
“While we start with a focus on Indian documentary practice to create a more informed ground to explore its specific histories, styles and provocations, the aim is to explore further political and aesthetic affiliations across geographical locations and disciplines,” reads a statement on the official website of the festival.
Filmmaker like Arun Khopkar, Deepa Dhanraj, Rahul Roy, Rajula and Shah Saba Dewan, from India, Yasmine Kabir from Bangladesh, as well as UK based filmmakers John Wyver, Mairead McClean, Mao Mollona, Margaret Dickinson and Simon Chambers and will be joined by, and be in conversations with, Alisa Lebow, Alpa Shah, Guilia Battaglia, Laura Bear, Lotte Hoek, Lucia King, Nicole Wolf, Partha Mitter, Radha D’Souza, Ravi Vasudevan, Ros Gray, Rosie Thomas, Stephen Hughes, Stewart Motha and Ziba Mir Hosseini.
The documentaries...
“While we start with a focus on Indian documentary practice to create a more informed ground to explore its specific histories, styles and provocations, the aim is to explore further political and aesthetic affiliations across geographical locations and disciplines,” reads a statement on the official website of the festival.
Filmmaker like Arun Khopkar, Deepa Dhanraj, Rahul Roy, Rajula and Shah Saba Dewan, from India, Yasmine Kabir from Bangladesh, as well as UK based filmmakers John Wyver, Mairead McClean, Mao Mollona, Margaret Dickinson and Simon Chambers and will be joined by, and be in conversations with, Alisa Lebow, Alpa Shah, Guilia Battaglia, Laura Bear, Lotte Hoek, Lucia King, Nicole Wolf, Partha Mitter, Radha D’Souza, Ravi Vasudevan, Ros Gray, Rosie Thomas, Stephen Hughes, Stewart Motha and Ziba Mir Hosseini.
The documentaries...
- 10/22/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
An ambitious attempt to write a 'personal' history of cinema is sometimes intelligent but rarely convincing
Maxim Gorky, the first major writer to record his impressions of the cinema, wrote in his local newspaper the day after seeing the first Lumière brothers show in Nizhny Novgorod in 1896: "Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows. If you only knew how strange it is to be there … I was at Aumont's and saw Lumière's cinématographe – moving photography. The extraordinary impression it creates is so unique and complex that I doubt my ability to describe it with all its nuances." A few years later Rudyard Kipling wrote Mrs Bathurst, the first significant work of fiction inspired by the movies, a mysteriously haunting tale of a sailor driven to his death by a brief newsreel he obsessively views in Cape Town. The new medium had the power to disturb, to fascinate,...
Maxim Gorky, the first major writer to record his impressions of the cinema, wrote in his local newspaper the day after seeing the first Lumière brothers show in Nizhny Novgorod in 1896: "Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows. If you only knew how strange it is to be there … I was at Aumont's and saw Lumière's cinématographe – moving photography. The extraordinary impression it creates is so unique and complex that I doubt my ability to describe it with all its nuances." A few years later Rudyard Kipling wrote Mrs Bathurst, the first significant work of fiction inspired by the movies, a mysteriously haunting tale of a sailor driven to his death by a brief newsreel he obsessively views in Cape Town. The new medium had the power to disturb, to fascinate,...
- 10/15/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Doctor Who Review, Series 6, Episode 12: “Closing Time”
Written by Gareth Roberts
Directed by Steve Hughes
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on BBC America
This week, on Doctor Who: The Doctor tries being social, Craig and Sophie have a baby, Cybermen and Cybermats return, and Amy’s a model.
With series six of NuWho coming to an end, it’s time for one last romp with the Doctor before the (assumedly) dramatic season finale next week. Last season, a budget issue forced Steven Moffat and company to make a last minute switch, pushing “The Doctor’s Wife” to series six and putting “The Lodger”, a Companion-lite episode, in its place. This year, it’s time for the Companion-lite episode again and, for the first time in quite a while, we get a sequel. “Closing Time” sees the Doctor drop in on Craig and Sophie from “The Lodger” for a...
Written by Gareth Roberts
Directed by Steve Hughes
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on BBC America
This week, on Doctor Who: The Doctor tries being social, Craig and Sophie have a baby, Cybermen and Cybermats return, and Amy’s a model.
With series six of NuWho coming to an end, it’s time for one last romp with the Doctor before the (assumedly) dramatic season finale next week. Last season, a budget issue forced Steven Moffat and company to make a last minute switch, pushing “The Doctor’s Wife” to series six and putting “The Lodger”, a Companion-lite episode, in its place. This year, it’s time for the Companion-lite episode again and, for the first time in quite a while, we get a sequel. “Closing Time” sees the Doctor drop in on Craig and Sophie from “The Lodger” for a...
- 9/25/2011
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
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