EXCLUSIVE: We’re getting word about a series in the works from Sony Pictures Television‘s AFFIRM television and Revelations Entertainment which is centering around the Biblical Nazarene movement. Created by John Christian Plummer, the untitled series is set six months after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The secret Nazarene movement to spread his radical teaching of
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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television – Kids is headed to Mipcom with reinventions of Bewitched, Stuart Little and Wheel of Fortune, and original series such as Sharks on Wheels. The kids production and distribution arm of Sony has a slate also comprising Hotel Whiskers and The Powers. The shows will launch at Mipcom Junior, the kids event that precedes the
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is saying goodbye to long-serving international production operations boss Richard Parsons. We hear the exec has chosen to step down after 12 years, with a source close to SPT saying the parting is “entirely amicable.” He will remain at Sony’s London based until the end of August. Parsons had joined Sony
Comcast-owned Sky has extended its multi-year content agreement with Sony Pictures Television on the eve of the LA Screenings. The agreement gives Sky UK and Ireland rights to new Sony Pictures Entertainment titles such Spider-Man; Across the Spider-Verse, Gran Truism and Equalizer 3. The next instalment of the Ghostbusters franchise and several films from the
EXCLUSIVE: Insecure alumna Yvonne Orji has signed a two-year first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, the Emmy-nominated actress, comedian, writer, author and producer will develop scripted drama and comedy series for cable and streaming. There is a possibility for her to star in any of the projects she develops for the studio.
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is putting the limited series Jackpot into early development, inspired by the hardscrabble life of Philly high-stakes gambler-turned-FBI confidential source RJ Cipriani (aka Robin Hood 702), the lynchpin in taking down a multimillion-dollar drug ring. Nicholas Stoller and his Stoller Global Solutions partner Conor Welch, as well as Jamie Canniffe, are
Sony Pictures Television Options Lizzy Barber’s ‘Out Of Her Depth’ Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has optioned Lizzy Barber’s psychological thriller Out of Her Depth and will develop into a TV show, with up-and-coming British writer Matilda Curtis set to adapt. Luke Scrase’s Golden Gate Studios, which has a first look deal with SPT, will produce the
A+E Networks Global Content Sales has hired Sony Pictures Television exec Kerstin Gühne as its Vice President for EMEA. This will see her overseeing distribution of A+E content throughout German-speaking Europe, the CIS region, Russia and Turkey. Her hire follows a 15-year spell at Sony, where she rose to Managing Director and Senior Vice President