All the latest news from the global content industry on Thursday, 5 February

 

Sunny Nights lands in US

Hulu has picked up US rights to eight-part darkly comedic crime drama Sunny Nights following a deal with Cineflix Rights.

The show, starring D’Arcy Carden and Will Forte, will debut on 11 March in the US. It is directed and executive produced by Trent O’Donnell (Hacks), and created by Nick Keetch and Ty Freer (Almost Paradise).

Echo Lake Entertainment (The Great) and Jungle Entertainment (No Activity, Good Cop, Bad Cop) produce. The show launched on Stan in Australia in December and has already sold to buyers including ITV (UK), Bell Media for its English and French services in Canada, and ProSieben (Germany).

 

SBS, AMC buy Hollywood and the Mob

AMC Networks in North America and SBS in Australia have picked up Hollywood and the Mob (w/t) from distributor Sphere Abacus.

The show is the third title in the ‘Mob’ series and is produced by Dash Pictures, with Thomas Patterson directing and Daniel Sharp and Jack Oliver exec producing.

The three-part docuseries uncovers Hollywood’s century-long affair between mobsters, moguls and movie stars.

Sphere Abacus has also sold Marilyn and the Mobto AMC Networks (US and Canada), SBS (Australia), Channel 4 (UK and Ireland), Sky (German Europe) and L7 (Italy). Elvis and the Mob has sold to SBS (Australia), Channel 4 (UK and Ireland) and RTL (German Europe).

 

Rogan hires Merle Currie to lead unscripted development

Rogan Productions has created a head of unscripted development role for development executive Merle Currie.

Currie, who joined the indie last year, will oversee all unscripted development activity across the business, which scooped Best Documentary at last night’s Broadcast Awards for Netflix doc Grenfell Uncovered.

The appointment is part of an expansion of the senior creative leadership team following the arrival of Jenny Popplewell as head of factual in June.

 

Kudos backs UK’s Senti Films

Peaky Blinders label Kudos is further bolstering the West Midlands’ scripted production scene by investing in Birmingham-based Senti Films.

The production company is run by writer, producer and director Rem Conway, who has been spent the past three years as a development producer with Kudos Knight, the Banijay label’s creative partnership with Steven Knight in the West Midlands.

Conway will continue with Kudos Knight while developing Senti’s slate of TV, film, theatre and digital projects that champion underrepresented local voices.

Kudos will accelerate Senti’s growth and co-produce any greenlit scripted projects.

 

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