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Series Mania: Damon Lindelof on 'The Leftovers,' Australia and Donald Trump

By John Hopewell and Jamie Lang

PARIS -- The third and final season of "The Leftovers" kicks off tonight on HBO. Anticipating its debut, Paris' Series Mania TV festival opened Thursday with "The Leftovers'" first two episodes playing to an enraptured general public a


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Netflix Picks Up Global Rights to Hit Swedish Series 'The Bonus Family' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Elsa Keslassy

PARIS -- Netflix has bought the first two seasons of hit Swedish dramedy series "The Bonus Family" ("Bonusfamiljen") for global distribution outside of Scandinavia. "The Bonus Family" was produced by FLX, the outfit behind Swedish bloc


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Series Mania: Paris Embraces 'American Gods'

By John Hopewell and Jamie Lang

PARIS -- Bryan Fuller's "American Gods," a highly-anticipated series at Paris' Series Mania, one of Europe's premier TV festivals, elicited admiration and enthusiasm on its Monday night screening, its continental Europe debut. Indeed,


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'Game of Thrones' Actor Kristofer Hivju Set for Double Role in 'Twin'

By John Hopewell

PARIS -- Kristofer Hivju, "Game of Thrones'" Wildlings leader Tormund Giantsbane, looks set for one of the most challenging roles of his career in eight-hour drama-thriller "Twin" - where he plays a a man who takes over his identical t


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Director Hans Herbots on 'The Swell' and Dealing With Social Issues Through Fiction

By Jamie Lang

One of Europe's top TV ratings performers this year - along with SVT's "Before We Die," sold by ZDF Enterprises, and Mediaset España's "I Know Who You Are," distributed by ME and Filmax - Dutch disaster series "The Swell" punche


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Series Mania: 'Augustus,' 'Trauma,' 'Beehive' Among Projects At Series Lab

By Emilio Mayorga

Marco van Geffen and Philip Delmaar's "Augustus," "Trauma," from Marcin Kubawski, Milosz Sakowski and Maciej Kubcicki, and Domante Urmonaite and Martynas Mendelis "The Beehive" are some of the nine projects to be pitched in front of a


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FremantleMedia Intl. Promotes Michela Di Mondo

By John Hopewell

PARIS -- Building its international team as it develops a formidable sales slate, driving ever more into high-end and often high-budget drama, FremantleMedia International (FMI) has promoted Michela Di Mondo to the post of SVP, sales,


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'The Leftovers' Recap: 'The Book of Kevin' Is Riddled With Intriguing Mysteries

By Sonia Saraiya

It's hard to know where "The Leftovers" is going with its mysterious opener "The Book of Kevin," which begins in 1844 and proceeds to jump through time — from the events immediately following Season 2 of "The Leftovers" to three


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REVIEWS

TV Review: 'The Leftovers' Season 3 on HBO

By Maureen Ryan

The new season of "The Leftovers" is spectacular, in every sense of that word. In upcoming weekly recaps, my Variety colleagues and I will attempt to delve into all the ways in which this deeply conventional show throws convention out


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TV Review: 'The Good Fight' on CBS All Access

By Maureen Ryan

It's appropriate that "The Good Fight" has a slightly more jagged and splintered atmosphere than "The Good Wife," the long-running CBS drama that starred Julianna Margulies. "The Good Wife" debuted eight months after the inauguration o


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TV Review: ABC's 'When We Rise'

By Sonia Saraiya

The mere existence of "When We Rise" is almost virtue enough. But in terms of tone and execution, the four-part event series from ABC is wildly uneven, crossing from moving stories of romance under oppression to retellin


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SAM Unveils 'Ride Upon the Storm' as Adam Price and Team Eye English-Language TV (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

Copenhagen-based SAM Productions, the company "Borgen" creator Adam Price launched with "The Killing" creator Soren Svestrup and "Melancholia" producer Meta Louise Foldager is diving into English-language production as Studiocanal brin


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Series Mania: Tonie Marshall's Tabo Tabo Films Prepares Series 'Neo Paris'

By Jamie Lang

PARIS -- There were two versions of Paris on display this week at Series Mania. The first was the city itself, a multi-cultural melting pot and mecca of high art,  with world famous museums, history and restaurants, and the other


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Italian Media Regulator Blocks Vivendi's Italian Expansion

By Nick Vivarelli

ROME -- Italian media regulator Agcom has ruled that French media conglomerate Vivendi's expansion into Italy where it has built large stakes in both Telecom Italia and broadcaster Mediaset violates the country's anti-trust laws a


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'The Leftovers': Justin Theroux on Kevin's Sanity, Crisis of Faith, and the 'Gratifying' Finale (SPOILERS)

By Diane Gordon and Debra Birnbaum

Spoiler alert: Do not read until you've watched the premiere of season three of "The Leftovers," titled "The Book of Kevin." In playing Kevin Garvey, Jr., Justin Theroux hasn't had it easy. He's been poisoned, drowned, shot, and forced


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