Attention, Islanders! Love Island USA isn’t going anywhere.
02.11.2023 - 08:13 / deadline.com
Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking to Turkish TV powerhouse Tims & B Productions. The company is coming off the back of launching new drama Another Love in Mipcom last month andSelin Arat, Director of International Operations at the company reveals what next steps are for the prolific producer and why Turkish TV content will continue to punch above its weight in the international arena.
When rival producers Timur Savcı and Burak Sağyaşar decided to join their two production outfits – Savcı’s Tims Productions and Sağyaşar’s Bi Yapım – in 2017, it marked a union of two of Turkey’s most prominent creators of television content. Savcı had been the producer behind Ottoman period drama Magnificent Century, a worldwide phenomenon that is largely considered as the catalyst for the country’s television boom, while producer-actor Sağyaşar had made the hugely popular comedy-drama Hayat, which aired in more than 30 countries worldwide.
In the last five years, the company has carved itself into one of the most successful production banners in Turkey, producing a raft of genres from drama, fantasy, dystopia and melodrama for linear broadcasters and global platforms. Last month at Mipcom, the company launched its most recent local success Another Love, which premiered on Fox Turkey in September to rave reviews. The show, which reunites Hayat stars Hande Erçel and Burak Deniz and is being sold by Global Agency, tells the story of an anchorman with dissociative identity disorder and a prosecutor who are drawn into an affair fueled with passion and tension as they both
Attention, Islanders! Love Island USA isn’t going anywhere.
K.J. Yossman “The Hunger Games” star Sam Claflin has boarded George C. Siougas’ short film “The One Note Man” as an executive producer.
As Deadline revealed exclusively on Monday, Netflix‘s hit seriesWednesday will be moving locations, with the upcoming second season filming in Ireland.
Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann are expecting their first child together.The reality show power couple each shot to fame in different romance shows, with Giannina, 30, appearing in Love is Blind, and Blake, 34, in Bachelor Nation. And despite not finding lasting love on the respective shows, the happy couple started dating last year, and are now expecting their first child. Sharing the exciting news to Instagram, Giannina wrote: "First comes love, then comes baby H - we’re so grateful that life has led us here and over the moon to be parents to our sweet baby come spring 2024!" Fans were quick to congratulate the couple, with one writing: "And just like that… THIS is why things happen how they happen..
Josh Andrés Hernandez is preparing to dig into the mind of Aaron Hernandez for his upcoming role in Ryan Murphy‘s American Sports Story.
Former Love Island winner Jack Fincham has returned to his old job after being banned from driving for three years. The 31-year-old won the ITV2 dating show back in 2018 while coupled with then-girlfriend Dani Dyer.The couple split their £50,000 cash prize after being crowned winners but ended up splitting themselves in 2019, with Jack admitting "some things aren't meant to be" at the time. But since then, Jack has confessed he was on a downward spiral since his shot to stardom more than four years ago, hitting a number of headlines in the past year due to a series of arrests.
Laura Anderson has been soaking up the rays with her newborn baby, Bonnie Rose, whom she welcomed to the world back in September. The mother and daughter jetted off to Dubai to enjoy their first holiday together.
Married At First Sight UK star Peggy Rose has enjoyed a night out partying with The Only Way Is Essex and Love Island stars at a Playboy x Misspap event. She joined a celebrity guest list at a party at Manchester's MNKY House to celebrate the fashion collaboration between the two brands that launched on Thursday and was photographed posing with TOWIE stars Chloe Brockett and Junaid Ahmed.
Maura Higgins had a very 'awkward' reunion with her ex, Curtis Pritchard, on Love Island Games after he was the third contestant to be sent packing from the villa. Maura, who first shot to fame on the 2019 series of Love Island, is currently the social media ambassador for the spin-off show.
Things got steamy in Lala Kent’s DMs!
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are the epitome of love in these new photos from their latest red carpet appearance!
embarked on her second marriage at age 31 — to Riley Hawk, the 30-year-old son of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. A year ago, Frances celebrated her 30th birthday by triumphantly posting “I made it!” on Instagram.But the odds were against her from the start.An infamous 1992 article in Vanity Fair alleged that her parents were junkies and that Love was shooting heroin when pregnant with her.
The first installment of Ryan Murphy’s American Sports Story anthology series for FX will star Josh Andrés Rivera as Aaron Hernandez and Patrick Schwarzenegger as fellow former NFL star Tim Tebow. The season is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
When surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr heard John Lennon singing anew on “Now and Then” — a brand new Beatles song that will be released on Thursday — it was like their former bandmate had miraculously come back to life four decades after he was murdered.“And there it was — John’s voice, crystal clear,” says McCartney, 81, in the new short film “Now and — The Last Beatles Song,” which premiered on the Fab Four’s YouTube channel on Wednesday.“It’s like John’s there,” adds Starr, 83.“Now and Then” — the first new Beatles tune since “Real Love” in 1996 — was written and first recorded by Lennon in the ’70s when he was living in the Dakota building on New York’s Central Park West — where he was murdered 43 years ago on Dec. 8, 1980.“I do remember living at the Dakota with Dad and Mom,” recalls Sean Ono Lennon, 48, in “Now and Then.” “There’s this impression that my dad stopped doing music for a while to raise me, which I think is partially true in terms of him not touring and not fulfilling any major record-label obligations.“But he was always playing music around the house.
Gogglebox stars Marcus Luther and Mica Ven - known as Big Meesh - were left mortified after being rejected from Maya Jama's Halloween party. The hilarious duo, who quit the show at the end of 2022, revealed that they had secured an invite to Love Island presenter Maya Jama's star-studded bash.
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track… So, we’re going to do the hard work for you.
She may not have won the Love Island crown but Ella Thomas did depart the villa hand-in-hand with boyfriend Tyrique Hydeand also scored a lucrative deal with fashion giant Pretty Little Thing, so in many ways she is the real winner. On the subject of winning, the 23 year old certainly won everyone over during her ITV2 stint with her innate sense of style, which saw her make even a simple cargo pant and t-shirt combination look effortlessly cool.
Love Island star Tom Clare has revealed he has been involved in a car accident. The reality star, who rose to fame after starring on hit ITV2 dating show Love Island at the beginning of the year, updated his loyal followers about the incident and explained that the accident 'wasn't his fault'. Tom, 24, who was previously a footballer, shared a candid snap to his Instagram Story on Thursday night which showed him relaxing on his bed with his feet up after the car ordeal.
Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent Boys’ Love, or ‘BL’ as it is also known, was once a minor and lightly regarded type of Japanese manga catering mainly to female fans, delivering stories of handsome young guys falling in love with each other. Now its popularity has spread beyond Japan to much of East Asia and beyond, while metamorphozing into a film, TV and online genre with millions of fans. Just how big BL has become was evident in a Wednesday TIFFCOM seminar on the BL phenomenon in Thailand: Beyond Borders: Exploring the Global Appeal and Diversity of Thailand’s Boys’ Love Contents. The eleven speakers, including an official from the Office of Commercial Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy in Japan, vigorously pitched partnerships with Japanese content companies, which seemed to be a classic case of selling ice to Alaska’s indigenous inhabitants. Members of the packed seminar room might beg to differ, however.
Biggs Chris and Summer Hawkins have reportedly split just weeks before they are due to welcome their first child together.