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25.06.2024 - 11:49 / deadline.com
The wait for news is over… Babylon Berlin is officially coming back for a fifth and final season.
The hit period drama’s future has been a topic of discussion since Sky Deutschland pulled out of original commissioning, leaving a funding gap in the series it shares with German pubcaster ARD Degeto.
It was still expected to move forwards, with producers saying they expected it to film a final season and star Liv Lisa Fries recently telling us of plans to shoot later in 2024. Today, the news became official, with X-Filme Creative Pool producing season 5 in co-production with Beta Film and local pubcasters ARD Degeto, SWR, WDR and Radio Bremen.
Set in the darkest period of German history, the new season will be set in the dark times of February 1933, when the Nazi Party took power. The director/writer trio of Henk Handlogten, Achim von Borries and Tom Tykwer will return for the finale, with Volker Bruch (Generation War) and Fries (The Wave) reprising their roles of Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter.
Shooting on the eight new episodes, which are based on Volker Kutschers fifth novel The March Fallen, will begin in the fall pending the approval of the ARD committees.
Co-producers are Christoph Pellander and Carolin Haasis from ARD Degeto, Manfred Hattendorf and Monika Denisch from SWR and Alexander Bickel and Caren Toennissen-Brand from WDR. Executive producers for X-Filme are Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott, and Michael Polle and co-producers for Beta Film are Jan Mojto, Dirk Schürhoff and Moritz Herzogenberg.
The series has been a local and international hit, sold into 140 territories with Netflix carrying it in the U.S. MHz Choice recently acquired rights to the episodes and is launching season 4 today.
X Filme Creative Pool
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Almost time to say goodbye: Paramount+ has dropped the official trailer and revealed the premiere date for the seventh and final season of Seal Team.
When Comcast-owned Sky Deutschland cancelled its usual drama event at the Munich Film Festival at short notice last summer, it came as a surprise. That surprise quickly turned to shock and bitter disappointment when the pay-TV giant revealed it wasn’t simply nixing a networking bash, it was exiting the original drama business full stop.
Jamie Lang The fifth and final season of the global hit series “Babylon Berlin” has received an official green light, and eight new episodes will be shot this fall. “Babylon Berlin” is produced by X-Filme Creative Pool in co-production with ARD Degeto, SWR, WDR, Radio Bremen and Beta Film.
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“Yellowstone.”Paramount announced in a press release Thursday when the final episodes of the Western series will finally premiere.The second half of Season 5 will kick off on Sunday, November 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.Production started on the remainder of the show’s final season on May 20 in Montana.The first half of “Yellowstone” Season 5 finished in January 2023, and then the show went on a long production hiatus due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes — as well as behind-the-scenes drama and feud allegations involving star Kevin Costner, who plays rancher John Dutton.
cutting ties with co-creator Justin Roiland, Rick And Morty managed to emerge relatively unscathed by the transition in its seventh season.The animated series, now complete with new voice actors Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden, follows cynical scientist Rick Sanchez and his grandson Morty Smith as they try to juggle family life with interdimensional adventures across infinite realities.The series began in 2013 and has scored widespread acclaim, picking up two Emmys for Outstanding Animated Programme.At the time of writing (June 17), there is no specific release date for the eighth season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the next series will debut sometime in 2025.This means the show will not release any episodes in 2024, breaking its recent three-year streak of debuting new seasons annually.
his wife’s recent accident that left her in a pool of blood.“First of all, she wasn’t drunk,” Mandel, 68, told TMZ on Tuesday. “I’m going to tell you the truth: she took gummies. So it’s not an alcohol problem, she was on pot.”The “America’s Got Talent” judge added that she got out of bed in the middle of the night and “fell,” and it was “really scary.” He added, “I put her on the bed and tried to give her ice.
obtained by the Hollywood Reporter on Monday. “It’s bigger. It’s just completely insane,” he added.
which is set to release on July 11. The series is created by Jeb Stuart and is a sequel to Michael Hirst’s “Vikings” from MGM Television. The official logline reads, “Set in the early 11th century, ‘Vikings: Valhalla’ chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived, Leif Eriksson, his sister, Freydis and the Norwegian prince Harald Sigurdsson.
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Elite is back for one last season!
Netflix has set July 26 for the premiere of the eighth and final season of Elite, the streamer’s longest-running Spanish scripted series.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Quincy Jones, the first Black producer to be nominated for best picture, and legendary casting director Juliet Taylor will receive honorary Oscars at this year’s Governors Awards, announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Wednesday. Screenwriter and director Richard Curtis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, while James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli will be bestowed with the Irving G.
Netflix has set July 11 for the premiere of the third and final season of Vikings: Valhalla, sequel to the Michael Hirst-created Vikings, from MGM Television. The streamer also dropped the Season 3 trailer, which you can watch above.
The debut trailer for Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla has debuted online, and Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), Freydis (Frida Gustavsson), and Norwegian prince Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) are back for the final episodes!