BBC America has made it official, renewing its first original scripted series, Copper, for a second season. The news comes ahead of the period drama’s Season 1 finale Sunday. The channel has ordered 13 episodes for Copper, which is produced by Cineflix Studios, vs. 10 for its freshman season. It marked BBC America and Cineflix’s first original scripted series. “Copper has proven to be a perfect fit for the channel,” said Perry Simon, General Manager, Channels, BBC Worldwide America. The series, which centers on an Irish immigrant cop (Tom Weston-Jones) in 1864 New York, premiered in August with 1.1 million total viewers, the largest audience ever for a BBC America series debut. It is the network’s highest-rated drama to date, averaging over one million viewers a week. The series is created by Tom Fontana and Will Rokos. Season one executive producers include Barry Levinson, Fontana, Rokos, Christina Wayne, Jim Finnerty, Sherri Rufh,...
- 10/18/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Emmy-winning writer-producer Tom Fontana has inked a premium two-script deal with Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, Fontana will pen two drama pilot scripts for the studio targeted for the next development cycle, a procedural and a character-driven one-hour. This development season, Fontana co-wrote with Julie Martin The Bedford Diaries, an ensemble college-themed drama pilot for the WB Network starring Matthew Modine, Audra McDonald and Milo Ventimiglia. Fontana is executive producing the HBO Independent Prods./Warner Bros. TV project, which is contention for fall, with his producing partner Barry Levinson, Martin and Jim Finnerty. Last season, Fontana, Levinson, Finnerty and James Yoshimura executive produced Fox's well-received but short-lived legal drama The Jury. Fontana has won three writing Emmys, for penning an episode of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street in 1993 and for co-writing episodes of NBC's St. Elsewhere in 1984 and 1986. This year, he was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors. Fontana is repped by UTA.
- 4/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fox has picked up the drama pilot The Jury, from Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana and James Yoshimura, as a series, possibly for midseason. The network has ordered five episodes of the 20th Century Fox TV legal drama, bringing the total order to six hours, including the pilot. Meanwhile, ABC has firmed up its commitment to the untitled Suzanne Martin comedy, ordering a pilot from the Warner Bros. TV sitcom about a hip single mom working as a wedding planner and her more conservative teenage daughter. Andy Ackerman is set to direct the pilot for the project, which had a put pilot commitment. He also will executive produce with Martin. Fontana and Yoshimura penned the pilot for The Jury, which examines the legal process through the eyes of the members of a jury. Levinson directed and guest starred in the pilot, which was filmed in December. The Jury, executive produced by Fontana, Yoshimura, Levinson and Jim Finnerty, stars Billy Burke, Adam Busch, Shalom Harlow, Jeff Hephner and Cote de Pablo. The drama was packaged by CAA.
Billy Burke, Adam Busch, Jeff Hephner and Cote de Pablo have been cast in Fox's legal drama pilot The Jury from producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana. Levinson is set to guest star in the 20th Century Fox TV pilot, which he also is directing. Penned by Fontana and James Yoshimura, the project looks at the legal process through the eyes of the jury. It is executive produced by Fontana, Yoshimura, Levinson and Jim Finnerty. In the pilot, now in production, Levinson plays Judge Horatio Hawthorne. Burke (Ladder 49) plays supervisor assistant district attorney John Ranguso, Hephner (Tigerland) plays assistant district attorney John O'Brien, Busch (Sugar & Spice) plays Steve Dixon, and de Pablo plays Maugerite Cisneros. The four join the previously cast Shalom Harlow.
- 12/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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