The Marseille Web Fest, a five-year-old digital film festival, has crowned the winners of the year’s best series in eight categories, with Dramaworld -- a 10-episode series that follows a geeky college student who’s transported into a Korean drama -- taking home the Grand Jury Prize. Whatever, Linda, a Canadian series about a woman who becomes the brains behind Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, won the award for Best Independent Series.
The winners, selected by a jury led by industry veteran Gilles Galud, were selected from a total of 25 series in contention.
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The winners, selected by a jury led by industry veteran Gilles Galud, were selected from a total of 25 series in contention.
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- 10/26/2016
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Cannes -- After a British invasion on stateside small screens, the Union Jack is being replaced by the French tricolore as Gallic TV programs become increasingly a la mode in the U.S.
The miniseries "Xiii" proved to be a lucky number for French pay TV network Canal Plus, with the English-language drama giving the channel its highest ratings yet for a homegrown fiction series.
The $20 million, four-hour production attracted 1.1 million viewers for each of the two-part episodes, which aired Oct. 6 and Oct. 13. NBC will broadcast "Xiii" in the winter, and Canal Plus is planning a sequel, depending on NBC's ratings.
The adaptation of Jean Van Hamme and William Vance's popular comic book, produced by Cipango, stars Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff. M6 and Canal Plus put up 2 million euros ($2.7 million) each for the political thriller and Canada's Power TV and prodigy funded the remaining budget for the European majority co-production.
The miniseries "Xiii" proved to be a lucky number for French pay TV network Canal Plus, with the English-language drama giving the channel its highest ratings yet for a homegrown fiction series.
The $20 million, four-hour production attracted 1.1 million viewers for each of the two-part episodes, which aired Oct. 6 and Oct. 13. NBC will broadcast "Xiii" in the winter, and Canal Plus is planning a sequel, depending on NBC's ratings.
The adaptation of Jean Van Hamme and William Vance's popular comic book, produced by Cipango, stars Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff. M6 and Canal Plus put up 2 million euros ($2.7 million) each for the political thriller and Canada's Power TV and prodigy funded the remaining budget for the European majority co-production.
- 10/16/2008
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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