By Tom Grater
08.04.2020 - 12:25 / deadline.com
By Jake Kanter
International TV Editor
Series Mania has hailed the success of the online forum that replaced its physical festival in Lille, France, last month as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
Series Mania published user engagement figures that could point the way for other digital industry events in 2020, revealing that 1,500 of the festival’s 2,000 delegates registered for the Series Mania Digital Forum.
It said that these 1,500 registered users consume 1.5 hours of video on average,
By Tom Grater
There can’t have been too many footballers who have appeared for clubs from the top divisions in England, Spain, Holland and France before their 21st birthday, but Manu Garcia is one man who has.
David Guetta is live on YouTube right now with a 90-minute live stream performance from Miami in support of COVID-19 relief!
Modern Paris is coming to life in Netflix’s new musical drama “The Eddy”.
The pioneering director chomped on a cigar throughout
By Elsa Keslassy
Produced by Paris-based outfit Mother Productions and sold internationally by eOne, the six-part limited series “La Garçonne” offers a playful, gender-bending spin on the period potboiler. Set during the roar of the early 1920s, the show follows a one-time war medic forced to take on not one, but two new identities after she witnesses a murder performed by a pair of government officials.
Produced by Paris-based outfit Mother Productions and sold internationally by eOne, the six-part limited series “La Garçonne” offers a playful, gender-bending spin on the period potboiler. Set during the roar of the early 1920s, the show follows a one-time war medic forced to take on not one, but two new identities after she witnesses a murder performed by a pair of government officials.
Presented as part of Series Mania’s Coming Next from France showcase, the youth-skewing series “Derby Girl” offers a fast-paced, darkly comic portrait of a disgraced former-figure skater named Lola Bouvier (Chloé Jouannet), who is offered a shot at redemption when she joins a local roller derby league, the Cannibal Unicorns.
Arte France, a bastion of quality European TV, is looking to make its French series ever less French , as it consolidates its position as one of Europe’s most internationally-minded TV operators.
Manchester born and bred, George Farrugia worked at restaurants including Room on King Street, before moving to London to work for legendary French chef Pierre Koffmann at his eponymous restaurant in The Berkeley Hotel.