Emma Frost and Matthew Graham have started with 10 projects in development.
The US’ Legendary Entertainment is teaming with showrunners Emma Frost and Matthew Graham to launch a UK TV production company called Watford & Essex.
The Bristol-based company will develop, produce and deficit finance UK and international high-end scripted programming across multiple genres. It will work with networks, co-producers and financiers in all markets.
It has a slate of 10 TV projects already in development. These include dark comedy-drama Hail, Satan!, created by Frost and Graham and in development with Channel 4; environmental thriller Amazonia from Misha Glenny, BBC journalist Kirsty Lang...
The US’ Legendary Entertainment is teaming with showrunners Emma Frost and Matthew Graham to launch a UK TV production company called Watford & Essex.
The Bristol-based company will develop, produce and deficit finance UK and international high-end scripted programming across multiple genres. It will work with networks, co-producers and financiers in all markets.
It has a slate of 10 TV projects already in development. These include dark comedy-drama Hail, Satan!, created by Frost and Graham and in development with Channel 4; environmental thriller Amazonia from Misha Glenny, BBC journalist Kirsty Lang...
- 11/23/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Legendary Entertainment and The Spanish Princess showrunners Emma Frost and Matthew Graham have launched the joint-venture production company Watford & Essex, which is already in development with 10 projects, including a remake of ABC’s 1960s TV series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
The new outfit will be based in Bristol, south-west England, and has hired Christine Healy, the head of production at Catherine The Great producer New Pictures, as its chief operating officer. It will work with Legendary’s TV division, which is behind shows including Amazon’s Carnival Row, to develop projects with international scale. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Frost and Graham’s The Spanish Princess is currently airing on Starz and follows The White Princess and The White Queen. Frost’s other credits include penning the screenplay for Ron Howard’s Jennifer Lawrence movie Zelda, while she has worked on TV shows including The Man in the High Castle...
The new outfit will be based in Bristol, south-west England, and has hired Christine Healy, the head of production at Catherine The Great producer New Pictures, as its chief operating officer. It will work with Legendary’s TV division, which is behind shows including Amazon’s Carnival Row, to develop projects with international scale. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Frost and Graham’s The Spanish Princess is currently airing on Starz and follows The White Princess and The White Queen. Frost’s other credits include penning the screenplay for Ron Howard’s Jennifer Lawrence movie Zelda, while she has worked on TV shows including The Man in the High Castle...
- 11/23/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Legendary Entertainment and “The White Queen” and “Life on Mars” writers/showrunners Emma Frost and Matthew Graham have launched a U.K. drama production company with a slate of 10 projects.
Frost and Graham, whose credits include “Ashes to Ashes,” “The Spanish Princess,” “Doctor Who” and “The Man In The High Castle,” will serve as joint CEOs of Watford & Essex, which will team with Legendary Entertainment’s television division and focus on television production and financing projects for the international market.
Christine Healy has been named COO, joining the venture from New Pictures where she was head of production since 2016.
Watford & Essex’s current list of projects in development include “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” based on
the Irwin Allen television series from the 1960s, developed and written by BAFTA-nominated Chris Lunt and Michael Walker (“Devils”), and “Hail Satan!,” a dark social comedy-drama created by Frost and Graham, in development with U.
Frost and Graham, whose credits include “Ashes to Ashes,” “The Spanish Princess,” “Doctor Who” and “The Man In The High Castle,” will serve as joint CEOs of Watford & Essex, which will team with Legendary Entertainment’s television division and focus on television production and financing projects for the international market.
Christine Healy has been named COO, joining the venture from New Pictures where she was head of production since 2016.
Watford & Essex’s current list of projects in development include “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” based on
the Irwin Allen television series from the 1960s, developed and written by BAFTA-nominated Chris Lunt and Michael Walker (“Devils”), and “Hail Satan!,” a dark social comedy-drama created by Frost and Graham, in development with U.
- 11/23/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
From Borgen to The Fall, we're living through a golden age of television. David Dimbleby's proposal would leave no room for all these riches
As a committed fan of the Danish political drama Borgen, I'm excited that in 2014 I could have more Danish TV goodies to binge on. Legacy is about the fallout from the 1968 generation. Set in a large Danish country house, the makers cite Downton Abbey, Festen and The Ice Storm as inspirations for the story about a famous artist, her liberal, hippy ideas about child-rearing, and her four adult children. It's the kind of drama that promises to examine the state of the nation with great characters and compelling plot twists. We feel intelligent while being entertained. Perfect.
It pains me to disagree with David Dimbleby, but on the issue of BBC4 I must. How can he ask for the channel to be axed when it...
As a committed fan of the Danish political drama Borgen, I'm excited that in 2014 I could have more Danish TV goodies to binge on. Legacy is about the fallout from the 1968 generation. Set in a large Danish country house, the makers cite Downton Abbey, Festen and The Ice Storm as inspirations for the story about a famous artist, her liberal, hippy ideas about child-rearing, and her four adult children. It's the kind of drama that promises to examine the state of the nation with great characters and compelling plot twists. We feel intelligent while being entertained. Perfect.
It pains me to disagree with David Dimbleby, but on the issue of BBC4 I must. How can he ask for the channel to be axed when it...
- 12/27/2013
- by Kirsty Lang
- The Guardian - Film News
The celebrity interview is a fraught affair. After actor Rhys Ifans stalks out of his unhappy encounter with a Times journalist, we ask those who interview the stars about their worst experiences
Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph
The film industry is now less caring about [traditional] media exposure. A lot of their PR campaign – and the interview is part of that – is much more driven by Twitter, YouTube, those types of things. So the celebrity interview has fallen down the ranking in importance, and particularly in the British media.
The way they try to control the environment has become more palpable. If they want the PR to sit in, I always try to say there's no need, but the main form of control is time. I was doing a lot of music interviews in the early part of my career, and I would be allowed to go on the road with Elvis Costello and Queen.
Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph
The film industry is now less caring about [traditional] media exposure. A lot of their PR campaign – and the interview is part of that – is much more driven by Twitter, YouTube, those types of things. So the celebrity interview has fallen down the ranking in importance, and particularly in the British media.
The way they try to control the environment has become more palpable. If they want the PR to sit in, I always try to say there's no need, but the main form of control is time. I was doing a lot of music interviews in the early part of my career, and I would be allowed to go on the road with Elvis Costello and Queen.
- 6/7/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The chairman of a book award panel has defended Lily Allen after she withdrew as a judge.
The singer joined the panel for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction last December but dropped out "by mutual consent" earlier this month.
She had previously failed to attend a meeting because she was depressed.
Chairman Kirsty Lang said she was happy with the decision to appoint Allen and accused critics of being "snobby and elitist".
She . . .
The singer joined the panel for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction last December but dropped out "by mutual consent" earlier this month.
She had previously failed to attend a meeting because she was depressed.
Chairman Kirsty Lang said she was happy with the decision to appoint Allen and accused critics of being "snobby and elitist".
She . . .
- 4/17/2008
- by Beth_Hilton_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Beth Hilton)
- Digital Spy
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