Acorn TV
The 76th Cannes Film Festival is on in France right now, with the Cannes market in full swing, as films get scooped up by studios for release, and movies in competition hope to set themselves up for award season come fall 2023. But while the A-listers are walking the seashore,
Acorn TV
After several false starts, Acorn TV’s Cannes Confidential finally has a premiere date stateside. The series was commissioned just before the pandemic shut down the world in 2020, heralded as the first English-language procedural drama produced and set in the Cote d’Azur since the 1970s. Unfortunately for Acron
PBS
One of the most frustrating aspects of the proliferation of streaming services and ITV and the BBC choosing to play the field, leasing content to the highest bidder, is that one never can tell where shows will land or if they will come to the U.S. at all. For
Acorn TV
Acorn TV initially commissioned Cannes Confidential in the summer of 2020 on the heels of greenlighting Ms. Fisher’s Modern Mysteries for a second season. With the Hollywood lockdowns in full swing that summer, the press release stated the show would not go into production for at least another year
PBS
Success begets success in the TV industry. In the U.K., there are very few police procedurals that have reached the levels of Line of Duty, the Jed Mercutio series about the internal investigations into its fictionalized Birmingham police force. Mercutio's HTM Television (Hat Trick Mercurio Ltd) has