TOP STORIES: Studio Lambert Ramps Up Drama Slate on Both Sides of the Atlantic (EXCLUSIVE); 'Trepa…
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Studio Lambert Ramps Up Drama Slate on Both Sides of the Atlantic (EXCLUSIVE)

By Leo Barraclough

Studio Lambert is one of the world's leading unscripted producers, best known for shows like Emmy-winner "Undercover Boss" and "The People's Couch." Two years ago the London- and L.A.-based company moved into drama series. Chief execut


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'Trepalium' Producer Kelija Sets Its Sights on Period Thriller 'Metro' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Elsa Keslassy

Paris-based outfit Kelija, the Lagardere Studios-owned company behind the acclaimed dystopian drama series "Trepalium," is re-teaming with writer Sebastien Mounier on "Metro," its most ambitious series to date. "Metro" is a thriller se


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Dominik Moll Set for TF1's Newen, Keshet Intl.'s 'The Steins' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

PARIS -- France-based director Dominik Moll is attached to direct "The Steins," an English-language drama modern-day reimagining of the Frankenstein myth that is set up at TF1's Newen, producer of "Versailles," and Keshet Intl., the co


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Haut et Court TV, 'False Flag' Co-Creator Team on 'Fertile Crescent' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Elsa Keslassy

Haut et Court TV, the French outfit behind "The Young Pope," "The Last Panthers" and the original "The Returned," is teaming with Eitan Mansuri's Israel-based Spiro Films and "False Flag's" co-creator Maria Feldman on "Fertile Crescent


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Series Mania: Shlomo Mashiach, Roni Ninio on 'Your Honor,' What Parents Do for Their Children (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

PARIS -- New Israeli TV series "Your Honor" begins with Micah Alkobi, a brilliant and upstanding magistrate-judge on the cusp of promotion, when his feckless son commits a hit-and-run crime, which leaves the son of a notorious crime lo


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Mediapro's Globomedia, Pubcaster RTVE Join Forces on New Spanish TV Dramedy 'Estoy Vivo'

By Emiliano De Pablos

Globomedia, one of Spain's foremost fiction houses and part of TV giant Mediapro, is joining forces with pubcaster RTVE to produce cop dramedy "Estoy vivo" (I am Alive), created by prolific Spanish showrunner Daniel Écija. A con


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'I Know Who You Are' Creator Pau Freixas Talks Inspiration, the Importance of Strong Female Characters

By Jamie Lang

As the drama boom continues to grow and local-language series cross borders at unprecedented rates, "I Know Who You Are," a Barcelona based missing person thriller, will be talked up at Series Mania on Friday by its creator Pau Freixas


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REVIEWS

TV Review: Jill Soloway's 'I Love Dick,' With Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn

By Sonia Saraiya

"DEAR DICK," begins the pilot of "I Love Dick," in all-caps cards: "EVERY LETTER IS A LOVE LETTER." The cards are narrated by Kathryn Hahn's character Chris Kraus, a filmmaker whose name's unfortunate similarity to '90s hip-hop duo Kri


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TV Review: 'Big Little Lies'

By Sonia Saraiya

The women of "Big Little Lies" spend all of their time surrounded by glass walls. The windows and mirrors of their comfortable commuter sedans; the plate-glass overlooking implausibly beautiful oceanfront vistas in Monterey, California


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TV Review: 'Legion' on FX, Starring Dan Stevens

By Maureen Ryan

There's nothing wrong (and often quite a bit right) with TV's mainstream, tried-and-true superhero modes, but those whose tastes lie in that direction may want to seek their cape fixes elsewhere: In look, style, and tone, "Legion" is n


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Series Mania: Laurence Herszberg on the 2017 Festival, Its Growth and the Drama of Social Fear

By John Hopewell

Two facts about Paris' thriving Series Mania, one of Europe's highest-profile TV festivals, highlight the current feeding frenzy for high-end TV drama in Europe and beyond - and of co-production as a strategy of choice to mitigate risk


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Series Mania: 'Contact's' Christophe Carmona on New French TV Series 'The Forest'

By John Hopewell

PARIS -- From December 2015, Carma Films' "Contact" has revamped the French cop show for TF1, melding the fast-paced beats of CBS procedural and a redolently French Aix-en-Provence setting and family drama. Fifteen months later, again


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'Romans in L.A.,' 'Dead Meet,' 'Alert' to Be Unveiled at Series Mania's Co-Production Forum

By John Hopewell

Shine Endemol Italy's "Romans in L.A.," the "Six Feet Under"-ish "Dead Meet" and whistleblower-themed "Alert" are among 16 TV dramas to be unveiled at pitching sessions at mid-April's Series Mania's Co-Production Forum, the Paris-based


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From 'Taboo' to 'The Young Pope,' Peak TV's International Invasion

By Cynthia Littleton

The Golden Age of television drama that has saturated screens during the past decade might soon be considered the Global Age of drama as well. The volume and profile of international series co-production efforts between Hollywood's stu


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